Bryce J. Renninger, PhD, JD
Director & Assistant Professor, Communication & Media Studies Program
Director & Assistant Professor, Communication & Media Studies Program
Education
JD, City University of New York Law School
PhD, Media Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
MA, Cinema Studies, New York University
BA, Television/Radio/Film, English & Textual Studies, Religion & Society, Syracuse University
Select Publications
Renninger, Bryce J. (2019). Grindr Killed the Gay Bar, and Other Attempts to Blame Social Technologies for Urban Development: Popular Technologies and Queer Sociality. Journal of Homosexuality 66(12), 1736-1755.
Renninger, Bryce J. (2018). 'Are You a Feminist?’: Celebrity, Publicity and the Making of a PR-Friendly Feminism. Emergent Feminisms and the Challenge to Post-Feminist Media Culture, Eds. Jessalyn Keller and Maureen Ryan (New York: Routledge).
Napoli, Philip M., Stonbely, Sarah, McCullough, Kathleen, and Renninger, Bryce J. (2017). Local Journalism and the Information Needs of Local Communities: Toward a Scalable Assessment Approach. Journalism Practice 11(4), 373-395.
Renninger, Bryce J. (2015). Where I Can Be Myself…Where I Can Speak My Mind’: Networked Counterpublics in a Polymedia Environment. New Media & Society 17(9), 1513-1529.
Raja, Sheena and Renninger, Bryce J. (2015). Remediating the Matchmaker: Arranging Digital Marriage Online in America's South Asian Diaspora. Online Courtship: Interpersonal Interactions across Borders (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures), 117-132. E-book found here:
Napoli, Philip M., Stonbely, Sarah, McCullough, Kathleen, and Renninger, Bryce J. (2015). Assessing the Health of Local Journalism Ecosystems. Report for the Democracy Fund, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Research Interests
Professor Renninger is a social scientist, journalist, filmmaker, and law school graduate. He is generally interested in the ways that various media shape or are harnessed to influence information ecologies, social interaction, and markets. Much of his scholarship focuses on the ways that members of counterpublics – groups that gather to develop and promote a non-mainstream political perspective – use media to communicate amongst themselves and to others.