Valerie Belair-Gagnon

Contact Me

vbg@umn.edu
612-626-7754

Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication
206 Church St SE
Ste 329 Murphy Hall

Affiliations

• Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Liberal Arts: Sociology

Links

• Personal Website
• Twitter
• Google Scholar
• Academia.edu
• Researchgate
• ORCID
• Digital Article Conservancy

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Sociology, City University London, 2013.
• B.A.: Sociology, McGill University, 2004.
• M.Sc.: Sociology, Université de Montréal, 2007.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• Journalism Studies
• Digital Media
• Technology and Innovation Management
• Sociology of media

Courses Taught

• New Media and Culture
• Digital Media Issues and Theories
• Mass Media and Popular Culture
• Qualitative Methods in Mass Communication

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Director: Minnesota Journalism Center at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication , June 2017

Publications

• Failure to Launch: Intrapreneurs, News Organizations, and Non-Adoption of Chatbots.: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Seth Lewis, Colin Agur, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, In Press.
• When Product (Managers) Rule the Newsroom. : Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Avery Holton, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, In Press.
• Roles Orientations and Audience Metrics in Newsrooms: An Examination of Journalistic Perceptions and their Drivers.: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Rodrigo Zamith, Avery Holton, Digital Journalism, 2020 Online First.
• Constructing Audience Quantification: How Norms about Audience Analytics and Metrics are Developed.: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Rodrigo Zamith, Seth Lewis, New Media & Society, 2019 Online First.
• The Two Faces of Janus: Web Analytics Companies and the Shifting Culture of News.. Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Avery Holton, Author, 2019.
• Space for the Liminal. Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Avery Holton & Oscar Westlund, Author, 2019.
• News on the fly: journalist-audience online engagement success as a cultural matching process: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Media, Culture & Society, 2019. Link
• Audience Engagement, Reciprocity, and the Pursuit of Community Connectedness in Public Media Journalism: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Jacob Nelson and Seth Lewis, Journalism Practice, 2019. Link
• Boundary Work, Interloper Media, And Analytics In Newsrooms: An analysis of the Roles of Web Analytics Companies in News Production: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Avery Holton, Digital Journalism, 2018. Link
• Strangers to the Game? Interlopers, Intralopers, and Shifting News Production: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Avery Holton, Media and Communication, 2018. Link
• Mobile Sourcing: A Case Study of Journalistic Norms and Chat Apps Usage: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Mobile Media and Communication, 2018. Link
• Media Capture with Chinese Characteristics: Changing Patterns in the Hong Kong Media System: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Nicholas Frisch and Colin Agur, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Forthcoming 2018.
• Social Media at BBC News: Re-Making Crisis Reporting. Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Routledge, Author, 2015. Link
• The Changing Physical and Social Environment of Newsgathering: A Case Study of Foreign Correspondents Using Chat Apps During Unrest: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Colin Agur; Nicholas Frisch, Social Media + Society, 1 1– 10, 2017. Download
• UAVs and Journalism Disruption: Perspectives from Early Professional Adopters: Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Taylor Owen and Avery Holton, Digital Journalism, 2017. Download
• New Frontiers in Newsgathering: A Case Study of Foreign Correspondents Using Chat Apps to Cover Political Unrest. Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Agur, C. and Frisch, N., Author, 2016. Link
• Interaction and Training: Social Media in News Organizations. Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, MIT Press, Author, 2016. Link
• Reconstructing the Indian Public Sphere: Newswork and Social Media During the Delhi Gang Rape Case. Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Mishra, S. and Agur, C. , Author, 2014. Link
• Revisiting Impartiality: Social Media and Journalism at the BBC. Belair-Gagnon, Valerie, Author, 2013. Link