
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS
Oct 2020
Global Alliance, Coming Together for Action (virtual due to COVID-19)
Presenter with J. Hartman: "Prisoner Reentry & Digital Skills”
Aug 2020
American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, USA (virtual due to COVID-19)
Presenter; Co-authors: J. DeCook, M. Foster, Jennifer Cobbina, A. LaCourse: "Digital Reentry: How Returning Citizens Perceive Access and Use of ICTs"
Presenter; Co-authors: D. Grošelj, A. Petrovčič: "Going online for someone else: Internet users who act as proxy internet users"
Apr 2020
Net Inclusion 2020, Portland, OR (canceled due to COVID-19)
Invited Panelist: “Academic research that's useful to digital inclusion practitioners”
Nov 2019
Symposium “Digitaler Habitus: Zur Veränderung literaler Praktiken und Bildungskonzepte”, Gießen, Germany
Invited Keynote Speaker: “‘When this year is up, I will get rid of my phone and move to the woods’: Digitaler Habitus und digitale Ungleichheit im Kontext verschiedener Gesellschaftsgruppen”
Sep 2019
TPRC The 47th Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy, Arlington, USA
“Digital Reentry: Uses of and Barriers to ICTs in the Prisoner Reentry Process”; and “Building Our Own Bridges: How a Distressed Urban Neighborhood Bridges the Digital Divide”
Aug 2019
American Sociological Association, New York City, NY, USA
“Mobile Phones will not Eliminate Digital and Social Divides: How Variation in Internet Activities Mediates the Relationship between Type of Internet Access and Local Social Capital in Detroit”
Jul 2019
International Association for Media and Communication Research, Madrid, Spain
“Digital Reentry: Uses of and Barriers to ICTs in the Prisoner Reentry Process”; "Going online on behalf of someone else: Characteristics of internet users who act as proxy internet users"
May 2019
International Communication Association, Washington, DC, USA
“Inequalities in Breadth of Internet Access and Use Predict Local Social Capital: Digital Divides in Detroit"
Sep 2018
U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy 2018, Freiburg, Germany
Invited Speaker: "Digital Divides"
May 2018
International Communication Association, Prague, Czech Republic
Panel Co-Organizer and Panelist: “Filter Bubbles: From Academic Debate to Robust Empirical Analysis”; and Panelist “Personalization, Politics and Policy: Cross-national perspectives”
May 2018
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Invited Talk: “Digital Inequalities and Prisoner Rehabilitation”
Apr 2018
Net Inclusion 2018, Cleveland, OH, USA
Invited Panelist: “Digital inclusion data you can use”
Apr 2018
Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA
Invited Talk at Know News: Engaging with Mis- and Disinformation Symposium
Feb 2018
Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, Lansing, MI, USA
Invited Panelist: “Imagining No Broadband Access” Public Policy Forum
Oct 2017
Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA
Invited Talk: “Internet Activity, Skills and Political Opinion Formation”
Sep 2017
TPRC Capitol Hill Briefing, Washington, DC, USA
Invited Talk: “Race and Digital Inequality: Policy Implications”
Sep 2017
TPRC The 45th Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy, Arlington, USA
“The Policy Implications of Race and Digital Inequality”; and “Social Shaping of the Politics of Internet Search and Networking: Moving Beyond Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Fake News”
May 2017
Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide, San Diego, USA
“The Intersectionality of Digital Inequality in the US”
May 2017
International Communication Association, San Diego, USA
“Cultural Divides and Digital Inequalities: Attitudes Shaping Internet and Social Media Divides”
A History of Operationalizing Digital Divides”
Nov 2016
National Communication Association, 102nd Convention, Philadelphia, USA
“The changing character of digital divides: Shifts in the US, Michigan, and Detroit"
Oct 2016
Association of Internet Researchers, IR17, Berlin, Germany
“An interrupted history of digital divides"
Sep 2016
TPRC The 44th Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy, Arlington, USA
“Rural Broadband Policies in a Cross-National Comparison”
Jul 2016
International Association for Media & Communication Research, Leicester, UK
“The (digitally) forgotten: Digital exclusion of UK prisoners”
May 2016
International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan
“Innovations in Digital Inclusion Research, Policy and Practice” Blue Sky Workshop Co-Organizer
Oct 2014
Association of Internet Researchers, IR15, Daegu, South Korea
“Access denied: Rural broadband in England & Wales.”
Aug 2014
American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA
“Matters of opinion: Digital inequality and attitudes towards the Internet.”
Jun 2014
ACM Web Science 2014 Conference, Bloomington, USA
“Digital inequalities, attitudes and a typology of Internet (non-) users.”
Oct 2012
Association of Internet Researchers, IR13, Salford, UK
“Living offline: A qualitative study of Internet non-use in Great Britain and Sweden.”
Aug 2011
American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, USA
“The participatory web: A user perspective on Web 2.0.”
Oct 2010
Association of Internet Researchers, IR11, Gothenburg, Sweden
“Non-adoption of the Internet in Great Britain and Sweden”
Jul 2010
World Internet Project, Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
“Internet Non-adoption in Great Britain and Sweden: First results.”
Nov 2009
Internetdagarna, Stockholm, Sweden
“Sweden: Why Internet non-use matters.”
Jul 2009
World Internet Project, Annual Meeting, Macau, China
“Non-user research in Great Britain: The Oxford Internet Surveys.”