Asta Zelenkauskaite, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Office: PSA 322
Phone: (215) 895-1717
Email: az358@drexel.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Mass Communication, Indiana University, 2012

Research and Teaching Interests

• Social Media
• User-Generated Content
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Interactivity
• Active Audience Analysis
• Mobile Communication
• Gender and Online Identity
• Prosumer Culture
• Internet of Things
• Quantitative/Qualitative Research

Biography

Dr. Zelenkauskaite earned her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Indiana University, Bloomington with two minor specializations in Information Science and Linguistics.  Her research focuses on the ways in which communication occurs through computer network environments as well as mobile telephony.  She is interested in the changes that social media bring to mass media landscape by studying these phenomena from a multi-method approach to analyze changing understanding of content, audiences, and media companies.  Most of her work bridges disciplinary boundaries methodologically and conceptually through her collaborative work with computer scientists and information science scholars.