Matthias Revers - University at Albany

Matthias Revers - University at Albany

Matthias Revers
Curriculum Vitae
09/21/2014
University of Graz
Department of Sociology
Universitaetsstrasse 15
8010 Graz, Austria
Phone: 011-43-316-380-7093
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://matthiasrevers.com
EDUCATION
PhD in Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York, 2014
Magister (MA equivalent) in Sociology, University of Graz, Austria, 2006
Bakkalaureat (B.A. equivalent) in Sociology (major), Economics (minor), University of Graz,
Austria, 2006
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
April 2014-
Post-doctoral research associate, University of Graz, Austria, Department of
Sociology
2014-
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University, Center for Cultural Sociology
2011-2013
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University, Center for Cultural Sociology
2011-
Instructor, University of Graz, Austria, Department of Sociology
2011
Instructor, SUNY-Albany, Department of Sociology
2009-2011
Graduate assistant, SUNY-Albany, Department of Sociology
Summer 2009
Research assistant, Austrian Academy of Science, Commission of
Comparative Media and Communication Studies
2007-2008
Research assistant and instructor, University of Graz, Austria, Department of
Sociology
2007-2008
Research assistant, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Department of
Sociology,
2005-2006
Teaching assistant, University of Graz, Austria, Department of Sociology
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Book
2006
Aberer, Matthias, Philipp Korom, Eva Postl, Daniela Reischl, Matthias Revers
and Barbara Schantl. Wo bleibt heute die Zeitung? Arbeits- und
Lebensbedingungen von ZeitungsausträgerInnen. Innsbruck: Studienverlag.
Journal articles and book chapters
Forthcoming Revers, Matthias. “Digital Media and the Diversification of Professionalism: A
US-German Comparison of Journalism Cultures.” In Alexander, Jeffrey C.,
Elizabeth Breese, María Luengo (eds.) The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered:
From Technology to Culture. Cambridge University Press.
2014
Revers, Matthias. “The Augmented Newsbeat: Spatiality in a Twitterized News
Ecosystem.” Media, Culture & Society. doi: 10.1177/0163443714549085
2014
Revers, Matthias. “The Twitterization of News Making: Transparency and
Journalistic Professionalism.” Journal of Communication. [Online First] doi:
10.1111/jcom.12111
2014
Revers, Matthias. “Journalistic professionalism as performance and boundary
work: Source relations at the state house.” Journalism 15(1), 37-52. doi:
10.1177/1464884913480459
2009
Revers, Matthias. “Sociologists in the Press.” The American Sociologist 40(4),
272-288. doi: 10.1007/s12108-009-9079-9
Book review
2009
Revers, Matthias. “Book review: Telling About Society by Howard S. Becker.”
Acta Sociologica 52(2), 188-189.
Manuscripts in Submission
Revers, Matthias, Brian McKernan, Sebastian Moser, Ian Sheinheit. “Polanski und das
Verhältnis transnationaler und nationaler Öffentlichkeiten.“ Submitted for the forthcoming edited
volume Neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2014.
Revers, Matthias. “Cultural Sociology, history of.” Entry submitted for International
Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, Elsevier.
Revers, Matthias. “Framing, frame analysis, history of.” Entry for International Encyclopedia of
Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, in preparation for Elsevier.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Revers, Matthias. Agents of Accountability: Professional Cultures of Journalism Facing the
Crisis. Book Manuscript.
Revers, Matthias. “Citizenship Events: Media Dramas About Deportation in the US and
Austria.”
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2014
Revers, Matthias. “Agents of Democratic Accountability? Professional Culture of
Political Journalism in the US and Germany.” Ph.D. Dissertation (411p.),
University at Albany, State University of New York.
2012
Gerber, Alison and Matthias Revers. “The Library of Affecting Social Science.”
Contexts, 11(1), 76-77.
2011
Revers, Matthias. “Media Systems and Media Cultures: News Coverage of
Deportation in the US and Austria.” Research Report (67p.), Spectro GmbH,
Vienna, Austria, downloadable at: http://spectro.st/content/download/448/2225
2009
Revers, Matthias. “Doktor/in der Soziologie in Österreich.” Newsletter der
Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 39 (3), 2-7.
2008
Baumgartner, Roswitha, Christian Dayé, Christian Fleck and Matthias Revers.
“1000 MigrantInnen auf dem Weg in die Wissensgesellschaft.” In Brandner,
Andreas (ed) Agenda Wissen. 22 wissens-politische Positionen für einen
verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Wissen in der Gesellschaft, Vienna:
Knowledge Management Austria, 59-94.
2007
Revers, Matthias. “ZeitungsausträgerInnen – Unsichtbarer Bodensatz des
Zeitungswesens.” In Wall-Strasser, Sepp, Erwin Kaiser, Johanna Wimplinger,
Gerlinde Breiner (eds.) Gewerkschaften und Atypische Beschäftigung,. Wien:
ÖGB-Verlag, 73-82.
2007
Revers, Matthias. “Soziologie in der Öffentlichkeit – Tatsachen und
Fehleinschätzungen.” Newsletter der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
31, 2-8.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2014
Distinguished Dissertation Award, SUNY-Albany
2012
Top 2 Student Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA),
Journalism Studies Section
2011-2012
Research Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), in
residence at Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, 2011-2012
2012
Research Grant, Spectro GmbH, Vienna
2008-2009
Fulbright Foreign Student Grant, Austrian-American Educational Commission
(Fulbright Commission)
2006
Master thesis research grant, Department of Sociology, University of Graz,
Austria
2005-2006
Excellence scholarship (“Leistungsstipendium”), Faculty of Social and Economic
Sciences, University of Graz, Austria
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Panels Organized
2014
“Theorizing Online/Offline Identity, Performance and Expertise.”
ISA World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, July 13-19
2011
“Symbolische Kommunikation im Öffentlichen Diskurs.”
Neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit, Gemeinsamer Kongress für Soziologie
der DGS, ÖGS, SGS, Innsbruck, Austria, October 1
Papers presented
2014
“The Augmented Newsbeat: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in a Twitterized News
Ecosystem.”
“The Twitterization of News Making: Transparency and Journalistic Professionalism.”
Communication and “the Good Life,” Annual Conference of the International
Communication Association, Seattle, WA, May 22-26.
“Political Embeddedness: Boundary Processes in US and German News Reporting.”
Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August
16-19.
2013
“The Augmented Newsbeat: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in a Twitterized News
Ecosystem.”
The Objects of Journalism, International Communications Association PreConference (sponsored by the Journalism Studies division and Communication
History division), London, June 17.
“The Twitterization of News Work: Transparency and Journalistic Professionalism.”
Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August
10-13.
Workshop in Cultural Sociology, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University,
April 5.
“Journalistic Autonomy as Cultural Practice: Boundary Work and Performance in
Political News Production.”
Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August
10-13.
Annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften, Mainz, Germany, May 9-10.
2012
“Socio-techno-discursive Formations and Mediated Deliberation: What Twitter does to
Political Journalism.”
Cultures and Civilizations in the Contemporary World, Midterm Meeting,
Research Committee Sociological Theory (RC16), International Sociological
Association, Trento, Italy, June 28-29.
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Political News Production.”
Communication and Community, Annual Meeting of the International
Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ, May 24-28.
Media Sociology Forum III, Columbia University, School of Journalism, New
York, March 2.
2011
“Polanski und das Verhältnis transnationaler und nationaler Öffentlichkeiten.” (Coauthored with Brian McKernan, Sebastian Moser, and Ian Sheinheit)
Neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit, Gemeinsamer Kongress für Soziologie
der DGS, ÖGS, SGS, Innsbruck, Austria, October 1.
“In the Lions’ Den: Boundary Processes in Political Reporting.”
Spring Conference of the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, April
29.
“Morally Polluted or Purified Auteur: A comparative analysis of international media
coverage regarding the Roman Polanski extradition case.” (Co-authored with Brian
McKernan, Sebastian Moser, and Ian Sheinheit)
Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference, February 25.
“Deportation and Cultural Conflict: Comparing Media Dramas about Civic Belonging.”
Konstanzer Meisterklasse “Clash of Cultures?” Universität Konstanz, Germany,
July 19–27.
2010
“Media Systems and Media Cultures: News Coverage of Deportation in the US and
Austria.”
ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17.
2009
“Embedded in Political Communication. What the Concept of Embeddedness in
Economic Relations Explains About News.”
Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August
7-10.
“Mediensysteme im transatlantischen Vergleich: Ein kultursoziologischer Ansatz.”
Kolloquium des Nachwuchsnetzwerks Politische Kommunikation, University of
Mannheim, Germany, June 19.
“Towards a Cultural Understanding of Media Systems.”
Spring Conference of the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, May 8.
“Public Sociologists in News Media: Enhancing the Image of the Discipline?”
Annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, March 2-5.
2008
“Sociologists in the Press.”
Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, July 31August 3.
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University of Graz, Austria
Instructor:
In English:
Advanced Qualitative Methods (M.A.), spring 2014
Argumentation and Academic Writing (B.A.), fall 2012
Contemporary Social Theories of Power and Domination (M.A.), spring 2013, 2014
Introduction to Sociology (B.A.), fall 2014
Methods of Empirical Social Research (B.A.), spring 2013
Economic Sociology (M.A.), fall 2012
Media Sociology (B.A./M.A.), spring 2012
Cultural Sociology (B.A./M.A.), fall 2011
In German:
Empirische Sozialforschung (B.A.), spring 2008
Teaching Assistant:
Introduction to Sociology (B.A.), spring 2005, 2006
Wirtschaftssoziologie (B.A.), spring 2005
Mikrosoziologie (B.A.), spring 2005
University at Albany, State University of New York
Instructor:
Sociological Theory (B.A.), summer 2011
Teaching Assistant:
The Creative Industries and the Sociology of Entertainment (B.A.), spring 2011
Sociological Theory (B.A.), spring 2010
Sociology of Deviance (B.A.), spring 2010
Sociology of Culture (B.A.), fall 2009
Writing Seminar on Crime & Deviance (B.A.), fall 2009
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2014
Conference organizer, ASA Media Sociology Pre-Conference, Mills College,
Oakland, CA, August 15
2013
Conference organizer, ASA Media Sociology Pre-Conference, NYU, Institute of
Public Knowledge, New York, August 9
2012-
Steering committee member to form a Media Sociology section in the ASA
2009-2010
Executive board member, Students Organization of Sociology, Department of
Sociology, SUNY-Albany
2007
Conference Organizer, Biannual Meeting of the Austrian Sociological Society,
Graz, September 25-27
2005-2009
Executive board member, Austrian Sociological Society
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American Journal of Cultural Sociology, International Communication Association, Law &
Society Review
NON-ACADEMIC WORK
2006-2007
Freelance journalist, Der Falter, Salzburger Nachrichten, Austria
LANGUAGES
German (native)
English (fluent in reading speaking, writing)
Latin (can read with dictionary)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Sociological Association
International Sociological Association
European Sociological Association
International Communication Association
Austrian Sociological Society
REFERENCES
Ronald N. Jacobs
Professor of Sociology
University at Albany, SUNY
Department of Sociology
Phone: (1) 413-533-8234
Email: [email protected]
Rodney Benson
Associate Professor
New York University
Department of Media, Culture, and
Communication
Phone: (1) 212-998-5820
Email: [email protected]
Christian Fleck
Associate Professor
University of Graz, Austria
Department of Sociology
Phone: +43 (0) 316-380-3544
Email: [email protected]
Michael Schudson
Professor
Columbia University
School of Journalism
Phone: (1) 212-854-8277
Email: [email protected]
Jeffrey C. Alexander
Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology
Yale University
Department of Sociology
Phone: (1) 203-436-4354
Email: [email protected]
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