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Aymar Jean Christian (uh-MAR) is an assistant professor in the Media, Technology and Society program in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He researches new media and television, focusing on how producers and organizations create and distribute web series, integrating scholarship on film, television and media industry studies.
He has been published in Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Root, the journals Continuum, Transformative Works & Culture, First Monday, Cinema Journal andCommunication, Culture and Critique and contributed film and TV reviews and pop culture commentary to the websites AfterElton, Tubefilter, among others. He ran the small-but-proud Film@Perelman program and lectured on film at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He regularly produces video projects.
He maintains a personal blog, Televisual, which focuses on the present and future of video, and has been linked to by The Atlantic, Gawker, and MSN, to name a few. He also edits Hacktivision, a blog that explores the future of television. He has offered media commentary for The New York Times, Plain Dealer, The BIO Channel and NPR, among others.
He received his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania (Annenberg School for Communication) with a certificate in cinema studies. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in American Culture. He lives in Philadelphia.
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