Annalee Newitz
| Annalee Newitz | |
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 Annalee Newitz at Etech 2005 |
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| Born | 1969 United States |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Journalist |
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Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology. She received a PhD in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley, and in 1997 published the widely cited book, White Trash: Race and Class in America. From 2004–2005 she was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She writes for many periodicals from Popular Science to Wired, and from 1999 to 2008 wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation. She co-founded other magazine in 2002, which was published triannually until 2007. Since 2008, she is editor-in-chief of io9, a Gawker-owned science fiction blog, which was named in 2010 by The Times as one of the top science blogs on the internet.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Newitz was born in 1969, the daughter of two English teachers — her mother teaching high school and her father at community college — and grew up in Irvine, California. She once called herself "biethnic" because her father is Jewish and her mother is a white Southerner and former Methodist.[2]
She graduated from Irvine High School, and in 1987 moved to Berkeley, California.[3] In 1996, Newitz started doing some of her own freelance writing, and in 1998, she received a PhD in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley, with a dissertation on images of monsters, psychopaths, and capitalism in twentieth century American popular culture (later published as a book [4]). She worked briefly as an adjunct professor, and in 1999 became a fulltime writer and journalist.
In 2002, she was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship,[5] and was a research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2004-2005 she was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and from 2007-2009 she was on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
She is partners with author Charlie Anders. The couple co-founded other magazine,[6] a tri-annual periodical which ran from 2002 to 2007, and was described as "pop culture and politics for the new outcast".[7] In 2008, Gawker media asked Newitz to start a blog about science and science fiction, which was dubbed io9.[8] Newitz has remained editor-in-chief since its founding, and in 2010, io9 was named one of the top 30 science blogs by The Times.[1]
[edit] Works
Newitz's work has been published in Popular Science, Wired, Salon.com, New Scientist, Metro Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Bay Guardian (as the culture editor),[9] and AlterNet. She is the editor-in-chief at io9, a science blog launched in 2008 by Gawker Media. She has discussed her work on CNN,[10] The New York Times,[11] NPR,[12][13] G4,[14] the BBC,[15] and the CBC,a[16] written for the San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post,[17] and she is a regular lecturer at various colleges[18] and conferences.
[edit] Periodicals
- (creator, founding editor) io9.com, 2008
- (co-founder) other magazine, 2002
- (co-founder) Bad Subjects, 1992, touted as the first leftist publication on the Internet (originally published via gopher)
[edit] Articles
- "Five Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading (io9.com, 2010)
- "Why Did Nearly All Life On Earth Die 250 Million Years Ago?" (io9.com, 2010)
- "When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like Avatar?" (io9.com, 2009)
- "How I Bought Votes on Digg" (Wired News, 2007)
- "Code of the Caveman -- New DNA Mapping Techniques Reveal the Secrets of Extinct Neanderthals" (Wired, 2006)
- "The RFID Hacking Underground" (Wired, 2005)
- "Why We All Need Pornography" (New Scientist, 2005)
- "The Conlangers Art -- Language Inventors Talk a New World Into Being One Language at a Time" (The Believer, 2005)
- "Sorry, Your Vote Has Been Lost, Hacked, Miscast, Recorded Twice -- The Trouble with E-voting" (Popular Science, 2004)
[edit] Books
- (co-editor, with Charlie Anders) She's Such a Geek (Seal Press, 2006)
- Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (Duke University Press, 2006)
- The Bad Subjects Anthology (New York University Press, 1998)
- White Trash: Race and Class in America (Routledge Press, 1997)
[edit] Short stories
- The Great Oxygen Race (Hilobrow magazine, 2010)
- The Gravity Fetishist (Flurb magazine, 2010)
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Eureka's Top 30 Science Blogs". The Times. February 3, 2010. http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/02/best-science-blogs.html. Retrieved September 19, 2010.[dead link]
- ^ Talbot, Margaret (30 November 1997). "Getting Credit For Being White". New York Times Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/30/magazine/getting-credit-for-being-white.html?pagewanted=3. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- ^ Newitz, Annalee (2006). "About Annalee". techsploitation.com. http://www.techsploitation.com/about/. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
- ^ ILoz Zoc (September 2, 2006). "Interview on Blogcritics about Pretend We're Dead". http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/12/074546.php. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
- ^ "2002-2003 Knight Science Journalism Fellows". MIT. http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/fellows/former/2002-03.html. Retrieved September 20, 2010.
- ^ Dodero, Camille (14–20 November 2003). "The New Outcasts". Boston Phoenix. http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/documents/03315255.asp.
- ^ "Other Magazine". othermag.org. 2007. http://othermag.org/backissues.php. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
- ^ "Gawker Blasts Into Sci-Fi With New Blog, io9". Wired. 2008-01-02. http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/news/2008/01/gawker_scifiblog.
- ^ http://www.sfbg.com/pixel_vision/2010/04/09/daily-blurgh-bros-trolls
- ^ "Cyber Rights and Wrongs". CNN. May 6, 2003. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/05/06/hln.wired.cyber.rights/.
- ^ Stone, Brad (January 2, 2008). "Gawker Media Gets Strung Out on SciFi". New York Times. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/gawker-media-gets-strung-out-on-sci-fi.
- ^ "Hacking Digg". NPR Future Tense. May 3, 2007. http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2007/03/05.shtml.
- ^ "Best Scifi Films: Our Critics' Lists". NPR On Point. August 2010. http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/08/killer-flics-attack-best-sci-fi-films.
- ^ "Blogging with io9's Annalee Newitz". G4. March 30, 2010. http://e3.g4tv.com/videos/45056/Blogging-with-io9s-Annalee-Newitz/.
- ^ "Blogger Fear in Apple Leak Case". BBC News. March 4, 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4319715.stm.
- ^ "RFIDs and Privacy". CBC. May 28, 2007. http://video.canadiancontent.net/14116142-privacy-and-rfid-chips.html. Retrieved September 20, 2010.
- ^ Newitz, Annalee (January 5, 2009). "Outlook: Will the future be bright or bleak?". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/01/02/DI2009010201625.html.
- ^ "Lecture at Trinity University". Trinity University. March 2010. http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/31537267.
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