The Shorenstein Center

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David Craig

Associate Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

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David Craig is Associate Professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and a leading scholar of global media industries and creator and influencer studies. His books include “Social Media Entertainment,” “Creator Culture,” “Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China,” and “Apocalypse Television.” During his fellowship, he will be completing books about Creator Nationalism and Global Entertainment Media, Volume II (both with Tanner Mirrlees), and co-editing “The Routledge Companion to Creator and Influencer Studies.” He directs USC’s master’s program in Global Media and Communication with the London School of Economics, is a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Before academia, he was a Hollywood producer and television executive. 

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Creator Nationalism: Platforms, Politics, and Influence

Creator Nationalism: Platforms, Politics, and Influence

Join Shorenstein Center Fellow and USC Annenberg Professor David Craig for a discussion of his forthcoming book, Creator Nationalism: Platforms, Politics, and Influence, exploring how social media creators and influencers figure prominently in the construction, imagination, commercialization, and contestation of nationalism around the world.

Event

HKS Campus, 15 Eliot St., Taubman Building, Room T-520 NYE & Zoom
2:30 PM ET

Event graphic for “Creator Nationalism: Platforms, Politics, and Influence,” featuring David Craig of USC Annenberg and Tanner Mirrlees of Ontario Tech, with a collage of content creators, smartphones, cityscapes, mountains, and crowds against a dark navy background.