Digital media, television, news media, melodrama, parody, science and technology studies, Political subjectivity, politics of affect, democratic transition, social movements, human rights, memory, urban studies, Latin America
Jennifer Ashley is a Term Assistant Professor in the Global Affairs Program. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Her research focuses on media and political change in Latin America.
Professor Ashley was awarded a 2017-2018 Fenwick Fellowship for her project "The Political Afterlife of the Chilean Plebiscite". She is currently developing a digital humanities site on this project, which can be found here: www.chile88.cl.
2020. “Context as Content in Chilean Community Media.” In Cultures of the Copy: Alternative Economies and Intellectual Property in Latin/o America, edited by Juan Poblete and Víctor Goldgel Carballo. New York: Routledge.
2018. Chilean Television on Shifting Terrain: Movement towards a Post-Network Era. Television and New Media 20(5): 476-491. doi/10.1177/1527476418776416
2015. "Honorable Piracy" and Chile’s Digital Transition. Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture (Special Issue on Piracy and Social Change) 13(1): 6-17. doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2014.978002
2014. Prime-time politics: News, parody, and fictional credibility in Chile. American Ethnologist 41(4): 757-770. doi.org/10.1111/amet.12110
GLOA 400: Humor and Global Politics
GLOA 605: Interdisciplinary Research Methods
HNRS 260: Global Student Movements