Lora Taub-Pervizpour's work explores the links between
communication and consumer culture, focusing in particular
on new information technologies and youth. Much of
her thinking on these issues emerges from her long-term
ethnographic research on the socio-cultural impacts
of computers in the lives of children and teachers
in an elementary school in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She
explores related topics of communication and commodification
in the context of higher education in a co-authored
chapter titled, "Networking the North American Higher
Education Industry," in
Continental
Order: Integrating North America for Cybercapitalism.
Her chapter exploring qualitative research on media
audiences recently appeared in
Television
Studies. Together with Susan Leggett she is
at work on a book titled, "Critical Communication
and Community in an Era of Digital Capitalism." She
teaches
Media
& Society,
Documentary
Research,
Popular
Culture,
Children and Media, and
New
Information Technologies.
