As from March 1, 2007 I have a joint appointment at IU's Department
of Telecommunications and as Professor
in Journalism and New Media (personal chair) at Leiden University
in The Netherlands. My BA is in Journalism from the Fontys School
for Journalism in Tilburg, The Netherlands, an MPhil in History and
Communication Studies from the University of Johannesburg, South
Africa, and received a PhD in the Social Sciences in March 2002 from
the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From 2002 to 2003,
I was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Southern California’s
Annenberg School for Communication. As a visiting professor I have
lectured at various schools and departments in the fields of journalism,
communication and media in The Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Portugal,
South Africa, and the United States.
Research
My research interests include the cultural and technological convergence
of media culture in general and the creative industries in particular.
This means that I am particularly interested in the professional
identity of people working in the media - journalism, advertising
and public relations, computer and video game development, film,
radio and television, web design. These professionals are most directly
affected by the society-wide trend towards a new kind if cultural
production where the distinction between making and using media is
disappearing (examples are interactive advertising, upstream marketing,
citizen journalism, game modding and dialogical public relations).
The everyday issues affecting workers in what can be called the
typical 'post-bureaucratic' cultural industries, such as a general
lack of job security, rapid deskilling and reskilling processes,
and an ongoing tension between trying to be creatively autonomous
while at the same time commercially viable, are increasingly felt
by people working elsewhere in today's economy. This makes the study
of media professionals especially relevant if you want to understand
the changes and challenges of our contemporary 'workstyle' (instead
of lifestyle).
Life without work has become just as impossible and unfathomable
as living without media. This is not necessarily a good (or bad)
thing - it just the reality of our everyday lived experience. My
research and teaching focuses on learning, understanding and thus
individually influencing the interplay of life, work, and media -
mastering the art of living inside each and everyone's own Truman
Show, if you will.
Publications
Publications of my work include a number of books, and
articles in journals such as New
Media & Society, Journalism Studies, the International Journal
of Cultural Studies, The Information Society, and Media
Culture & Society. For an overview of these publications, see the
listing via Google Scholar.
Several articles have appeared in (or
are under review at) open access journals such as eJournalist, First
Monday, and the Journal
of Media Sociology.
Save most of my books, all my publications can be downloaded
directly and for free from Indiana University’s open
access digital repository IUScholarWorks. There you can also find
published works by many other IU researchers in the field of
(new) media.
For instant access to all my publications, please follow this
link. Of course, I always sincerely appreciate any thoughts or feedback
you may have.
Below is a list of my books with direct links to the publisher
pages, BOL or Amazon, whichever place lists the lowest price.
If you are looking for a specific chapter from any of these works (for
example to including in a reader or class materials), please contact
me via e-mail, I would be happy to provide you with a PDF copy.
Deuze, M. (edited volume; work in progress). Managing Media Work.
London: Sage.
Deuze, M. (under contract; planned for 2010). Beyond
Journalism.
Cambridge: Polity Press.
Deuze, M. (work in progress; planned
for 2009). Leven in Media.
Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam.
Deuze, M. (2008). Guerilla winkels, het SoCo Experiment en een volgende
Big Bang. Leiden: Leiden University Press. Full text of this (Dutch
language) book can be downloaded
for free here.
Deuze, M. (2007). Media Work. Cambridge: Polity
Press. Chapter five, on the profession of journalism, can be downloaded
for free here.
Blanken, H., Deuze, M. (2007). PopUp. Amsterdam:
Atlas.
Deuze, M. (2004). Wat is Journalistiek? Amsterdam:
Het Spinhuis.
Blanken, H., Deuze, M. (eds.) (2003). De Media Revolutie.
Amsterdam: Boom. Two individual chapters of this (Dutch language) edited
volume are available for free online. Download chapters on online
journalism by Pleijter & Deuze;
and on multimedia users by Van
Driel.
Deuze, M. (2002). Journalists in The Netherlands.
Amsterdam: Aksant/New Jersey: Transaction. Full text of this book available
via the Digital
Academic Repository of the University of Amsterdam.
Teaching
At
the Department of Telecommunications I generally teach the University
Division-course Media Life (T101; open to all IU students), Global
Media Issues (T413), and Creative Industries (T451) in some form or another.
On a graduate level, you can expect me to be teaching
courses related to the history, organization and culture of media work
(T505 Media Organizations). Especially in the 400-level courses, the issues
as mentioned above will be the most important topics on the class agenda.
In T451, part of the classtime is spent on a community service learning
project in collaboration with Rhino's Youth Center and All-Ages Music
Club in Bloomington, Indiana.
Media Work:
Students As
my classes and studies are primarily focused on the working lives
of media professionals and thus on media work in general, I consistently
try to give students at Indiana and Leiden (and elsewhere) grounded
and realistic advice on what it is like to work and to get (or
keep) work in the creative industries in general, and the media
in particular. It is perfectly possible to build a course list
that will prepare for a career in the media. The best advice I can give
you is not to pick courses because you think they will help you landing
a job, but to pick courses about topics, issues, skills and competences
that you -individually, personally- are deeply passionate about.
As the media industry is a precarious, unpredictable, fast-changing
and generally crazy place, the thing that will always keep you going is
your own passion. Anything else will perhaps land you a job, but will
not empower you to be creative, to do what you want to do, to
be among those an organization cannot afford to let go when the next round
of cost-cutting lay-offs comes around.
Please check out my
Facebook profile page and my
weblog (Deuzeblog) for regular postings and links to news related
to work and jobs in the media industry. I encourage students
to contact me for information and feedback on internship and
job opportunities, and especially appreciate it if young professionals
and/or alumni keep in touch to tell their story on working in
the media.
For those who are looking for resources for finding
jobs and internships in the media, please check the following
websites listed below. Of course, take good care before contacting
the addresses and people found here. Do not consider these links
and organizations as my personal recommendations; these are
just some often-mentioned websites in the US media industry for
job- and internship seekers.
Advertising
- American
Assocication of Advertising Agencies Jobs: LINK
- International
Advertising Association New York Jobs: LINK
- AdWeek
Jobs: LINK
Film, Radio & TV
- Film & TV Jobs: LINK
- Careerpage
for the Broadcasting Industry: LINK
- Hollywood
Reporter Jobs: LINK
- Entertainment
Careers: LINK
- National
Association of Broadcasters Career Center: LINK
- Showbiz
Jobs: LINK
- TV
and Radio Jobs: LINK
- Broadcast
Employment Services: LINK
- Broadcast
Executive Search: LINK
- Variety
Careers: LINK
- Indiana
Broadcasters: LINK
Journalism
- Journalism Jobs: LINK
- Journalism
Jobs Links: LINK
- J-Jobs & Internships
Page (including Career Help): LINK
Computer and Video Games
- Game Jobs: LINK
- Interactive
Selection Game Recruiter: LINK
- Gamasutra
Jobs: LINK
- Creative
Heads: LINK
- Games
Jobs News: LINK
- Game
Career Guide: LINK
Media (general)
Please
contact me for more information on any of the issues mentioned
on this page.
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