Andrew Kennis (Male, U.S.)

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E-Mail:
akennis2@uiuc.edu
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Interests:
Digital Divide, Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, Censorship / Press Freedom, Communication rights, Media ownership, Media and Communications Policy, Independent and Alternative Media, Community media, Participation, WTO, Politics / Political Communication, Propaganda, Public Opinion, Radio, Community radio, Low power FM, Commercial broadcasting, Print Media, Journalism, Broadcast news, Media bias, Newspapers, Digital Media, Information Society (and cognates), TRIPS, Health, Media Literacy, Technology / Technological Change, Software, Free / Open Source, Internet, Network neutrality, Standards / Protocols, Virtual / Online Communities, Networks, Social Networks, Social Movements and Sectors, Media Justice, Grassroots organizing, Media Reform Movement, Methods, Content Analysis, Comparative research (international), Media History, Political Economy, Journalistic Professionalism
Discipline(s)
Communications, Economics, Government, Information Science, Journalism, Media / Production, Multi/interdisciplinary, Other, Political Science, Public Policy, Public Health, Science and Technology
Role(s):
Researcher, Graduate Student, Journalist
Location(s) of Work:
USA, Canada, Spain, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, China, Taiwan, Japan, Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territory

Current Institutional Affiliation(s)

Biography

Andrew Kennis is a PhD candidate, an investigative journalist, an adjunct professor and a researcher specializing in Political Communication, Digital Journalism Studies, Political Economy and International Communications. He is defending his dissertation this semester and will be receiving his doctoral degree from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His dissertation offers an original model of news analysis called the media dependence model. Prior to coming to UIUC, Andrew received his Masters degree in Political Science at CUNY, where he specialized in Comparative and U.S. Politics and wrote his thesis on the propaganda model.

As a researcher, Andrew has investigated, written and published in peer review journals ranging across three different disciplines (communications, political science and technology studies). He works with internationally renown scholars, such as John Nerone and Noam Chomsky.

As a Professor, Andrew has designed and taught his own courses at the TEC de Monterrey in Mexico City, Cal State University (Hayward), William Paterson University (NJ), Dominican University (Chicago) and at UIUC. Most recently, he taught an undergrad seminar this summer at Dominican University entitled, “Global Media and Online Journalism." Previously taught courses have included “Digital Journalism and Critical Media Analysis,” “Politics and the Media,” and "Media and Democracy."

As a journalist, he has practiced online-based / convergence reporting, investigative and print reporting, citizen journalism, online-based and traditional radio throughout the last decade. Andrew was a part of the early inception of digital journalism as one of the first reporters from the Independent Media Center in New York City. Since that time, Andrew has practiced online-based journalism  from locations based in four continents across the globe, including on-the-scene reporting from Chiapas, Israel, Venezuela, Taiwan, Guatemala, Quebec, Palestine and Mexico City. He has published in a variety of news sources, including daily newspapers, newsweeklies and monthly periodicals based both in the States and abroad. For a sampling of Andrew's journalistic work, see: <http://www.google.com/profiles/andrew.kennis>.
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In addition to reporting and conducting research from abroad, Andrew also taught, lived in and reported from Mexico City and Chiapas for four years, during which time he obtained a level of spoken and written fluency in Spanish.

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