Grant Kien, PhD Faculty Profile
Grant Kien, PhD
Professor (Full), Program Director of MA in Communication
Department of Communication
- E-mail: Grant.Kien@csueastbay.edu
- Phone: (510) 885-3927
- Office: MI 3005
- Home Page: www.csueastbay.edu/Communication/MA
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Author of Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-Truth Civilization
Memes
- Communicating with Memes
- History of Media Memes
- Socio-political impacts of Memes
- Meme theory
- Meme research
Social Media
- Prosumerism on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, TikTok and other social media platforms
- Social Media Theory
- Battling white supremacy in Social Media
- Social movements in social media (Hashtag activism)
New Digital Media Studies
- Critical Cultural Studies
- Actor-Network Theory
- Technology and Society
- Medium Studies
- Communication and Media Theory
- Cybernetics
Qualitative Research Methods
- Ethnography
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Depth Interviewing
- Technography
- Audience Research
- Memeography
- PhD, Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- MA, Communication and Culture, York University, Toronto ON
Not teaching this semester.
Kien, Grant. (2013). “Media Memes and Prosumerist Ethics: Notes towards a theoretical examination of Memetic Audience Behavior”. Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, 13:6, pp.554-561. (Invited special issue scholarly journal article: Confronting Neoliberalism: Toward a Militant Pedagogy of Empowered Citizenship, edited by Denzin and Giardina)
Kien, Grant. (2013). “The Nature of Epiphany”. International Review of Qualitative Inquiry. (Scholarly journal article)
Kien, Grant. (2013). “Evolution, Apple, iPad, and Education: A Memeography of a Monster Too Big to Fail”. Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, 14:2, pp.194-204. (Scholarly journal article)
Kien, Grant. (2011). “BDSM and Transgression 2.0: The Case of Kink.com”. Transgression 2.0. Ted Gournelos and David Gunkel (eds). New York: Continuum Press.
Kien, Grant. (2010). “Privacy As Work: The Appropriation of Labor in Post-Global Network”. Post-Global Network and Everyday Life. Marina Levina and Grant Kien (eds). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Levina, Marina, and Grant Kien (eds). (2010). Post-Global Network and Everyday Life. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. (edited volume)
Levina, Marina, and Grant Kien. (2010). “Introduction: Control and Fear in Post-Global Network”. Post-Global Network and Everyday Life. Marina Levina and Grant Kien (eds). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Kien, Grant. (2009). “Virtual Environment: The machine is our world”. Identity, Learning and Support in Virtual Environment. Sharon Tettegah and Cynthia Cologne (eds). Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Kien, Grant. (2009). “An Actor Network Theory Translation of the Bush Legacy and the Obama Collectif”. Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, 9:6, pp. 796 - 802.
Kien, Grant. (2009). Global Technography: Ethnography in the Mobile Field. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. (full length book)
Kien, Grant. (2009). “Hybrid Networks, Relational Materiality”. Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches. Phillip Vannini (ed). New York: Peter Lang Publishing, pp.27-44.
Kien, Grant (ed). (2008). Technography for a Digital World, partial special issue ofQualitative Inquiry, 14:7.
Kien, Grant. (2008). “Technography = Technology + Ethnography”. Qualitative Inquiry,</