Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics

A tenured associate professor and the Associate Director of the Center for Innovative Media in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, Dr. Kerric Harvey is also a working playwright and multimedia producer who explores intercultural conflict in a wide variety of periods and places, including real-world, online, and social media landscapes. She also writes about the media arts and cultural archetypes in the public imagination, the anthropological effects of new media technologies, digital storytelling, and the relationship between new media narratives and political identity. In 1995 she was appointed as one of 33 participants who constituted a National Science Foundationn task force charged by the Clinton White House with setting a 21st-century national research agenda for Internet issues from the anthropological perspective. Her research and policy development work during the formative stages of the Internet era continued with a two-year stint on the Smithsonian Institution's Curriculum Initiative Program National Advisory Board. Her work in new technologies and society continues through her appointment as a 2012 visiting scholar at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, by a host of publications ranging from books to juried academic articles, and by her many international academic presentations including recent talks at the Oxford Internet Institute and at the British Museum. An award-winning teacher, she has been on the George Washington University faculty for just over 20 years. Harvey worked as a reporter in Native American print journalism; in research, script development, and production for educational film; in production and operations in public access television; and with the International Documentary unit of the Seattle public television affiliate station. Harvey balances her academic career with international theater, multimedia, and documentary productions in both physical and virtual spaces. She has had her original dramatic work produced professionally in Scotland; Ireland; New York; Pennsylvania; Vancouver, Canada; and Washington, D.C.; as well as having original radio drama aired on Canadian public radio in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and on RTE-One, Ireland's premiere public radio station, which broadcast her 2001 Driving in Ireland as a Play of the Week. She is a member of the University Film and Video Association, the Irish Film Institute, and the Dramatists Guild of America, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

"If, like me, you were caught off guard by the sudden currency of "cloud computing"...the three-volume Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics is the reference work for you....The first volume provides a handy chronology of how social media evolved....As promised in the encyclopedia's title, there is plenty of politics between these six covers...." -- Dennis Drabelle "Media anthropologist Harvey's pioneering work on the burgeoning role of social media in politics provides a useful, eclectic foray into still-uncharted and often hard-to-navigate waters. ...VERDICT: The proliferation of social media has so profoundly changed the landscape of political communication that a treatise of this nature is long overdue. Recommended for both general readers and social scientists from a variety of disciplines." -- David Ettinger * Library Journal Reviews * "This set skillfully and expansively canvasses the increasingly ubiquitous topic of social media and its relationship to both the American political process and the organization of politics in U.S. society. ...The Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics has roundly succeeded in surveying the current state of the field and provided students of the topic a one-stop shop of digestible information. Recommended for high-school and undergraduate collections." *Starred review. -- Brian Odom * Booklist * "...This encyclopedia will be a useful resource for academic and public libraries supporting programmes, organizations and interests in communications, media, political science and information science." -- Jodi Kearns * Reference Reviews * "Organized along the same clean lines as a number of other SAGE encyclopedias published recently, the set (also available online) will be welcomed in public and academic libraries, as well as in many high school libraries..." -- M. Schumacher * American Reference Books Annual *