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Jessica (Jesse) Baldwin-Philippi, PhD (current as of 11/1/23)

Positions and Affiliations Held

2019 –now  Associate Professor, Fordham University, Communication and Media Studies Department; Affiliated Faculty: New Media and Digital Design Program

         2023-now & 2016-2017             Director of Graduate Studies: Public Media MA

         2022–                Director, Donald McGannon Center for Communication Research

         2021- 2022      Interim Director, McGannon Center

         2014 – 2019       Assistant Professor

                        Fordham University, Communication and Media Studies Department

2012-2014     Visiting Faculty in Civic Media

                        Emerson College, Visual Media and Arts

                       Engagement Game Lab Researcher

Education

PhD  2012     Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Communication Studies

MA  2009      Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Communication Studies

BA   2007      Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA Communication Major. Magna Cum Laude.

Research and Teaching Interests

Political Communication                 Civic Media                                    Internet Studies

Science and Technology Studies   Qualitative Methodologies       Journalism Studies

Publications

Books

Mythologizing the Data Campaign (under contract with Oxford UP)

Baldwin-Philippi, J. (2015). Using technology, building democracy: Digital campaigning and the construction of citizenship. New York: Oxford UP.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Kefford, G., Dommett, K., Baldwin-Philippi, J., Bannerman, S. Dobber, T., Kruschinski, S., Kruikemeier, S., Rzepecki, E. (2022). “Data-Driven Campaigning and Democratic Disruption: Evidence from Six Advanced Democracies.” Party Politics.

Baldwin-Philippi, J (2020). Data Ops, Objectivity, and Outsiders: Journalistic Coverage of Data Campaigning. Political Communication. Online first https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1723751

Baldwin-Philippi, J. (2019). Data campaigning: Between empirics and assumptions. Internet Policy Review, 8(4). DOI: 10.14763/2019.4.1437

Baldwin-Philippi, J. (2019). “The Technological Performance of Populism” New Media and Society, 21(2) https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818797591

O’Brien, D., Offenhuber, D., Baldwin-Philippi, J., Gordon, E., Sands, M. (2017). “Uncharted Territoriality in Coproduction: The Motivations for 311 Reporting” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 27 (2), 320-335. *Honorable mention for Article of the Year in JPART*

O’Brien, D., Gordon, E., Baldwin-Philippi, J. (2014). “Caring about the Community, Counteracting Disorder: 311 Reports of Public Issues as Expressions of Territoriality,” Journal of Environmental Psychology, 40: 320-330.

Gordon, E. and Baldwin-Philippi, J. (2014) “Playful Civic Learning: Enabling Reflection and Lateral Trust in Game-based Public Participation.” International Journal of Communication 8: 759-786.

Baldwin-Philippi, J. (2013). “Constructing skeptical citizens: How campaign microsites foster new ways of engaging political information and understanding citizenship,” Journal of Information Technology & Politics 10(3): 245-260.

Baldwin-Philippi, J. (2011).  “Bringing Science and Technology Studies to bear in Communication Studies Research” Communication Research Trends. 30(2): 4-20.

Bachen, C., Raphael, C., Lynn, K., Baldwin-Philippi, J., McKee, K.  (2010)  “Games for Civic Learning: A Conceptual Framework and Agenda for Research and Design.” Games and Culture. 5(2): 199-235. 

Raphael, C., Bachen, C., Lynn, K., McKee, K., Philippi, J., (2008).  “Civic Engagement, Pedagogy, and Information Technology on Web Sites for Youth.” Political Communication. Volume 25, Issue 3, pp 290-310.

Raphael, C., Bachen, C., Lynn, K., Baldwin-Philippi, J., McKee, K. (2006) “Portrayals of Information and Communication Technology on World Wide Web Sites for Girls.” Journal of Computer- Mediated Communication. Volume 11, Issue 3.

Book chapters

Baldwin-Philippi, J.  (2020) “Give Election Apps More Integrity” in Fixing American Politics. Ed. Roderick Hart. New York: Routledge

Baldwin-Philippi, J.  (2018). “Data-driven Campaigning” in Digital Discussions: How Big Data Informs Political Communication eds Talia Stroud and Shannon McGregor. New York: Routledge

Baldwin-Philippi, J (2017). “Politics 2.0” in Sage Handbook of Social Media eds. Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, and Thomas Poell. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Baldwin-Philippi, J. (2015). “The Cult(ure) of Analytics in 2014” in Campaign 2014: Media Message and Mobilization eds. John Allen Hendricks and Dan Schil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gordon, E and Baldwin-Philippi, J.. (2013) “Making a habit out of engagement: How the culture of open data is reframing civic life” in Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation eds Jen Pahlka and Brett Goldstein. New York: O’Reilly Media.

White papers and other non-peer reviewed work

Baldwin-Philippi, Bode, L., Kreiss, D., Sheingate, A. (2020). “Digital Political Ethics: Aligning Principles with Practice” https://citapdigitalpolitics.com/?page_id=1911

Baldwin-Philippi, J. (2017) “The Myths of Data-Driven Campaigning.” Political Communication: The Forum 34(4).

O’Brien, D., Offenhuber, D., Baldwin-Philippi, J., Gordon, E., Sands, M. (2016). “How Citizen Attachement to Neighborhoods Helps to Improve Municipal Services and Public Spaces” Scholars Strategy Network. White paper: http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/brief/how-citizen-attachment-neighborhoods-helps-improve-municipal-services-and-public-spaces

Baldwin-Philippi. (2015). [Review of the book Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age, by Jennifer Stromer-Galley]. Political Communication 31(4), 682-684.

Baldwin-Philippi. (2015). [Review of the book The social media president: Barack Obama and the politics of digital engagement, by James Katz, Michael Barris, and Anshul Jain]. Information, Communication & Society 17(10), 1298-1300.

Gordon, E., Baldwin-Philippi, J and Martina Balestra. (2013). “Why we engage: How theories of human behavior contribute to our understanding of civic engagement.” Berkman Working Paper Series. Berkman Center for Internet and Society (available on SSRN).

Baldwin-Philippi, J. and Eric Gordon. (2013) “Designing Citizen Relationship Management Systems to Cultivate Good Civic Habits.” Boston Area Research Initiative Policy Brief. http://www.bostonarearesearchinitiative.net/policy-briefs.php

Baldwin-Philippi, J, Eric Gordon, Chris Osgood, and Nigel Jacob. (2013). “Design Action Research in Government: The DARG Manual.

Baldwin-Philippi, J. (2006). “The Power of Communication As Idiomatic Language: A Comparison of Zora Neale Hurston and the Language of Jazz.” Published in The Image of Power: Selected Papers—2006 Conference— Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (SISSI).  Ed. Wright, Will, and Kaplan, Steven.

Civic Tools Produced

StreetCred (StreetCred.us). (2013; now defunct) A web-based app designed to structure civic actions while drawing out the social elements of acts like reporting potholes or donating to a food drive. Developed in a collaboration between the Engagement Game Lab and the City of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (collaborators: Eric Gordon, Chris Osgood, Nigel Jacob; developers: Joel Mahoney, Leo Souza). Funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the Knight Foundation.

Invited talks

  1. 20 “Data-Driven Maintaining: The role of the party and data maintenance in the US context” Data-Driven Campaigning in a Comparative Context, University of Manchester on Friday 13th October 2023.
  1. “Digital Media in the 2020 Election” Johns Hopkins U. Nov 12, 2019.
  1. Templeton Global Citizens Conference “Citizenship in a Networked Age” Nov 7, 2019.
  1. “Mythologizing the Data Campaign: Between Empirics and Assumptions” Data-Driven Elections: Implications & Challenges for Democratic Societies, University of Victoria Big Data Surveillance group. May 28-29.
  1. “Social Media Citizens: Digital Campaigning, Amateur Style, and Populist Affordances” Templeton Global Citizens Conference, Oxford University, UK. May 10-11.
  1. “Trolls, Sockpuppets, and Bots, Oh My” Juneau World Affairs Conference, Juneau AK. April 28-29.

2018 “The Future of Technology and Social Media in U.S. Elections” Miller Center at University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA. Nov 8.

2018 “Social Media and the 2018 Election” Syracuse University’s Social Media and Democracy Seminar. Syracuse U. Nov 14.

2018 “The Innovation Agenda: How Government and Industry Collide in Civic Tech” McGannon Center Lecture Series, Fordham U. Feb 9.

2017 “Social Responses to Fake News: Fears, Trust, and Knowledge” Journalism and the Search for Truth. Boston University. April 23-25.

2017 “Digital Media, Technology, and Analytics,” Invited moderator. Political Analytics 2017 Harvard University Center for American Political Science (CAPS). March 20th.

2016 “Is there a Digital Divide Between Republicans and Democrats?” CUNY Graduate Center. Oct 13.

2016 “Data-driven campaigning: What campaigns talk about when they talk about big data” New Agendas Conference, UT Austin Moody School of Communication. Sept 22-24.

2016 “Campaigning in a Cult(ure) of Analytics,” Stanford University, Rebele Symposium speaker. April 31.

2016 “Digital Campaigning and the Construction of Citizenship” (book talk), Santa Clara University. April 31.

2016 “Digital Campaigning and the Construction of Citizenship” (book talk), Fordham U. Sponsored by the McGannon Center and Fordham Digital Humanities Working Group

2015 “Co-design in the classroom: Undergrads and contingency plans.” Civic Tech in the Classroom. Microsoft Research, NYC, June 16.

Refereed Conference Presentations

  1. “Data Ops, Oracles, and Outsiders” American Political Science Association (APSA) ITP section. Washington DC, Aug 30-Sept 1
  1. “Data Campaigning and Platform-Provided Analytics” International Communication Association (ICA) Political Communication section preconference. Washington DC, May 28-June 2.
  1. “Mythologizing the Data Campaign”). (APSA) Political Communication section. San Francisco, Aug 30-Sept 1. Panel organizer
  1. “What Campaigns Talk About when they Talk About Data” (APSA). ITP section. San Francisco, Aug 31-Sept 2

2017 “What Campaigns Talk about when the Talk About Data: Down-ballot races and data-driven campaigning” at (ICA) Political Communication Division. May 24-28.

  1. “The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Politics Research: A Roundtable” (with Andy Chadwick, Leticia Bode, Shelly Boulianne, David Karpf, Daniel Kreiss, and Chris Wells). American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, PA, September 3.
  1. “Shifting Strategies of Campaign Control and the Construction of the Vocal Citizen” Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). Chicago, IL; April 7-10.
  1. ICA Presentations: “Digital Retail Politics: Interpersonal Messaging via Social Media” Political Communication Division. Building civic participation through mobile reporting apps: Efficient, engaging, or both?” Communication and Technology Division.May 22; San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  1. ICA Presentations “Bringing Qualitative Methods and Action Research to Civic Innovation. Qualitative Political Communication Preconference. “Confounding Control: Strategies of campaign control in the face of new media platforms, and changing in organizational structure” ICA: Political Communication Division. May 22; Seattle
  1. “Media(ted) Discourses of Citizenship” National Communication Association (NCA): November 16-20; Washington DC. Presentation: Situated Discourses of Citizenship PreConference.
  1. “Games, Civic Education, and Civic Engagement.” ICA: June 17-21; London.

2013 “Designing for Reflective Civic Habits” HackforChange Boston Civic Expo; May 2013; Boston.  

  1. “Playful Civic Habits” MIT8. May 2013; Boston.
  1. “Building Civic Cities: New Urban Mechanics as a Model for Scaling Civic Engagement Across Cities.” Digital Media and Learning. March 14-16; Chicago.
  1. “Digital circulation: Campaigns’ drive toward social media sharing and subsequent changing concepts of citizen-relationality” (NCA): November 16-20; Orlando.
  1. Brookings Institution Workshop on Reforming the Economy and Developing an Innovation Agenda for the First 100 Days of the Next Administration. June 18-19; Menlo Park, CA.
  1. “Constructing skeptical citizens: How campaign microsites foster new ways of engaging information and understanding citizenship.” ICA: May 2012. Political Communication Division.
  1. NCA presentations: “Political Pass-Along in a Digital Era: How Political Campaigns Encourage The Re-circulation of their Messages.” NCA. Political Communication Division; “Messaging Through Microsites: Analyzing the Content of Campaign-Produced Microsites and their Possibilities for Understandings of Campaign Communication.” Political Communication Division.
  1. “Are Social Media Increasing Engagement Between Political Campaigns and Voters? Potential vs. Practice” Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S): November 19-22.
  1. “Microsites for Advocacy Campaigns: People participating more, parties participating differently.” Netroots Nation: June 10-13.
  1. “Using Technology Building Democracy: How Electoral Engagement with Technology Impacts Our Understandings of Citizenship in a Digital-Era Democracy.” ICA: Political Communication Pre-Conference. May 10-14.
  1. “What’s the Deal About Small Sites? How Political Microsites Reflect Shifting Norms of Participation” Social Media as Politics by Other Means: How Architecture and Algorithms Affect Online Political Discourse: Rutgers University, April 11-12.
  1. “Reading the Painting on the Wall: The Role of Public Art in Palestinian Political Claims” NCA Visual Studies Division, November.
  1. “Constructing Civic Republican Subjectivities via the Freirean Pedagogies of the One Laptop Per Child Campaign” Freire 40 Years Later Workshop: Northwestern University, February.
  1. NCA presentations: “Protest Publics: Toward an Expanded Understanding of the Habermasian Public Sphere in a Postnational Era” (Political Communication Division); Proposal for an Investigation of the Public Discourse Surrounding Rules: Examining the Values and Subjectivity of the U.S. Through News Discourse Concerning the Regulations and Proclamations of the UN (International Relations Division); The Role of Public Discourse in Intersectionality Theory: Navigating Flexible and Static Identity Formation” Gender Studies Division.
  1. “Toward the Recognition of Democracy in the Structure of News.” Western States Communication Association (WSCA): February 2009, Communication Theory Division.
  1. “An Undemocratic Ideal: The False Rhetoric of Liberalization, Freedom and Democracy in Globalization Discourse.” Political Communication Division November. NCA
  1. “Action and Reaction in Globalization and Global Development Practices” Midwest Political Science Association, Global Development Division, April.

Awards and grants

  1. Co-leader (w Lauri Goldkind) of Fordham’s successful bid for affiliate (2020) and then full (2022) membership in the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN)
  2. Microsoft Research Grant (Chatbot testing project) with Alice Marwick and Gregory Donovan): $10,000
  3. Fordham University Faculty Research Grant. $3,400
  4. Applied for, not received: NSF Cyberlearning program: ~$900,000. (Co-PI on grant; PI: Eric Gordon)
  5. Outstanding Dissertation Award: School of Communication, Northwestern University 2012.
  6. Irving J and Laura Lee Fellowship: Northwestern. (Award for outstanding dissertation progress)

2011-12. Northwestern Searle Center for Teaching Graduate Teaching Certificate Program Participant

2010-2011. Northwestern Graduate School Fellowship

2007-2008. Northwestern Graduate School Fellowship

  1. Santa Clara University Communication Department Prize
  2. Phi Beta Kappa.

Teaching Experience

Graduate Teaching (Fordham University)

Civic Media (new course; community engaged course)

Political Campaigning in the Social Media Era (new course)

Digital Advocacy (new course)

Undergraduate Teaching

Fordham University

Intro to Media Industries

Intro to Digital Technology and Emerging Media

Digital Cultures

Civic Media (new course)

Digital Advocacy (new course)

Race, Gender and Digital Media (new course)

Digital Media and Public Responsibility

Media and Social Change

Political Communication

Emerson College

Civic Media (Upper-division seminar)

Studies in Digital Media and Culture (Upper-division seminar)

Northwestern University:

The Politics of Technology (Upper-division writing seminar)

Theories of Mediated Communication (Mid-level survey course)

Public Speaking for Civic Engagement (Introductory course)

Professional and Departmental Service

Selected Departmental Service:

  • Director of Graduate Studies for MA in Public Media (2016-2017; 2023-current)
  • PMMA/CMS Graduate Committee (2014- current)
  • Diversity and Inclusion committee chair, CMS dept (2018-2022)
  • Search committee for 5 tenure-track positions (chaired committee for 3—Critical Digital Media Studies, Digital Journalism Studies, and Global Film/TV).
  • Digital Technology and Emerging Media curriculum coordinator (2021- current)
  • I have served on numerous departmental committees on and off: Executive Committee (2016-17; 2023-), Merit committee (2022-23),

Faculty Advising (at Fordham):  35-40 CMS (undergraduate) and PMMA (graduate) advisees per semester.

University service

  • Middle States Accreditation Self-Study Team­–Communications Committee
  • Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Academic Affairs committee (2018-2023).
  • New Media and Digital Design Executive Committee member (2014- 2018)
  • University STEM committee member (2017-2020)
  • Outside tenure committee member: Political Science (2023).

Faculty Advisor for student groups at Fordham:

         2019- present  SPIRE

         2019-2020:        Fordham Ram (campus newspaper)

         2016-2020:        Fordham Special Olympics Club

Service to the Discipline:

Associate Editor (2019- ):  Journal of Information Technology & Politics

Section Chair     (2022):   APSA Information Technology & Politics section

Program Chair   (2021):  APSA Information Technology & Politics section

Reviewer for academic presses and journals: Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, Rowman &Littlefield; Political Communication; Journal of Communication; Social Media & Society; Journal of Information Technology and Politics; International Journal of Communication; International Journal of Press/Politics; Information, Communication & Society; Political Behavior; Games and Culture; Journal of Digital Media and Learning;

Reviewer for awards/conferences/organizations: APSA best published article award (2020) committee chair; APSA book award in Information Technology and Politics section (2018) committee chair; APSA dissertation award in Information Technology and Politics section (2017); ICA Political Communication division; ICA Communication and Technology division; APSA Information Technology and Politics section; APSA Political Comm section.  

Media Appearances:  BBC Newshour; New York Times; Washington Post; The Atlantic; ProPublica; Politico; Wall Street Journal; NBCNews; Financial Times; WBEZ Chicago; Boston Globe; America with Jorge Ramos (Fusion TV); Newsday; KCBS Radio (San Francisco); Radio France International (RFI); Sección Internacional; El País; Al Jazeera.

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