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Joshua Green is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working with the Convergence Culture Consortium, Green leads a team of researchers exploring the ramifications of convergence and participatory culture for content production, branding practices, and the way we understand media audiences. His current work looks at the ramifications of convergence on television, the formation of the participatory audience, and television branding in the context of participatory culture. He co-founded and is a key organizer behind the successful Futures of Entertainment conference at MIT and speaks regularly at both industry and academic events.
He is co-author (with Jean Burgess, QUT) of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (Polity Press, April 2009) the first rich study of YouTube, a project that builds on a content survey of over 4,000 of YouTube’s ‘most popular’ videos to help understand how YouTube works and what it might be for. With Henry Jenkins and Sam Ford, he is currently working on a project called Spreadable Media – a follow-up to Jenkins’ Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.
Before coming to MIT, Green worked as a Research Associate at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, a major Research center for the Creative Industries in Brisbane Australia. While there, he collaborated with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, preparing content and developing an accompanying publication for TV50, an exhibition celebrating 50 years of Australian broadcasting. Green has a continuing affiliation with the ARC Center of Excellence For Creative Industries and Innovation, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the PBS social media project PBS Engage. Working with Drew Harry at the MIT Media Lab he developed backchan.nl, an online tool for involving audiences in presentations and conference events.
Green holds a PhD in Media Studies from the Queensland University of Technology. His dissertation manuscript – is freely available from the Australian Digital Thesis Program.
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