Prof. Lievrouw is the author of numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and other publications (see Bibliography). As theme chair of the annual conference of the International Communication Association in 2013, she edited that year’s ICA Theme book, Challenging Communication Research (Peter Lang, 2014). In Alternative and Activist New Media (Polity, 2011) she explores the ways that artists and activists use new media technologies to challenge mainstream culture, politics and society (a second edition is nearing completion). With Sonia Livingstone of the London School of Economics, she is also co-editor of the 4-volume Sage Benchmarks in Communication: New Media (Sage, 2009), and of The Handbook of New Media (Sage, 2002; updated student edition, 2006). Her current works in progress include The Handbook of Digital Media & Communication for Routledge (edited with Brian Loader), Media and Meaning: Communication Technology and Society (Oxford University Press), and Foundations of Media and Communication Theory (Blackwell). 

She is also co-editor of Competing Visions, Complex Realities: Social Aspects of the Information Society (with Jorge Reina Schement; Ablex, 1987), and Mediation, Information and Communication: Information and Behavior, vol. 3 (with Brent Ruben; Transaction, 1990). From 2001 to 2005 she was a founding co-editor of the journal New Media & Society.

Recent Publications

Leah A. Lievrouw joined the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1995. Her research and teaching focus on the relationship between media and information technologies and social change.

Photo courtesy Herman Seidl | Galerie Fotohof | Salzburg 2009

Updated October 2016

Dr. Lievrouw received a Ph.D. in communication theory and research in 1986 from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.  She also holds an M.A. in  biomedical communications / instructional development from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to UCLA, she has held faculty appointments in the Department of Communication in the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies (SCILS) at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ and in the Department of Telecommunication and Film at the University of Alabama.  She has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam's  School of Communication Research (ASCoR) in The Netherlands, and visiting professor at the ICT & Society Center at the University of Salzburg, Austria. In 2006-07 she was the Sudikoff Fellow for Education and New Media at UCLA.