David R Brake

Researcher and Educator, University of Alberta

I spent a decade as a UK technology journalist and internet consultant before taking my PhD. My broad research interests include digital divides and digital media literacy, privacy in online contexts, mediated interpersonal interaction, the political economy of the social web and other internet applications, online journalism and the interconnections between new media, the mass medias and politics.

Experience

2017–present

Instructor, University of Alberta

Education

2009

London School of Economics, PhD in Media and Communications
2003

London School of Economics, MSc in New Media, Information and Society

Publications

2014

Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media,
2013

Are we all online content creators now? Web 2.0 and digital divides, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
2012

Who Do They Think They're Talking To? Framings of the Audience by Social Media Users, International Journal of Communication