Elon University School of Communications

• The Imagining the Internet Predictions Database: A revealing look at what Internet stakeholders and skeptics forecast, combining the future and past

• One Neighborhood, One Week on the Internet: Elon-Pew Research on Family Internet Use

• Online News Editors Survey 2000 and Links to Sites Regarding Structuring Online Media Ethics Codes and Protocols

• Courses, including JCM 218, 300, 326, 425, 495

BS, Moorhead State University, 1978; MA, University of Memphis, 1999

She is the director of the "Imagining the Internet" Predictions Database.

This 6,000-page resource offers thousands of expert predictions about the future of information/communications, and a section that allows anyone anywhere to add their own predictions to the site. It also offers videos, audio files, extensive sections on the future of the world and the past history of communications, a KidZone, and a Teachers' Tips section. The site (www.imaginingtheinternet.org) has won international acclaim, including coverage in the New York Times and other national and international news outlets.

This is one of her several major research pieces for the Pew Internet & American Life Project; she is the lead author of the Future of the Internet survey series for Pew Internet, and she also directed a 2001 study of the use of the internet by small-town families (www.elon.edu/pew/oneweek/). These studies add to the documentation of the history and predicted future of networked information and communications technologies. Most of them incorporate at least some undergraduate research elements involving Elon students.

Anderson, an assistant professor in Elon University's School of Communications, is the lead author of the "Future of the Internet" book series being published by Cambria Press. She is sole author of "Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives," published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2005. The book was selected as a "Choice" title by the American Library Association in 2006 - a must-have work for library reference collections.

Anderson was a mainstage speaker at Accelerating Change 2005 at Stanford University and was a participant in the 2006 Metaverse Roadmap Summit, projecting the future use and impact of synthetic online virtual-reality worlds. She was invited by the UN to record interviews at the first Internet Governance Forum, in Athens in November 2006, and the second IGF, in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.

Her 2000 research report on editing and ethics at online newspaper operations received world and national media attention, including coverage on the ABC Radio Network and in USA Today, Editor & Publisher Online, the Freedom Forum site, and on many other outlets. Her website on ethics for digital information providers is a resource that receives a great deal of traffic. She also served as a consultant for the Online News Association's credibility study in 2001. Her research and teaching concentrations include the internet, newswriting, editing, and communications ethics.

Over the course of the 20-year career she enjoyed in print journalism prior to joining the Elon faculty in 1999, Anderson worked every job in the typical daily newspaper editorial department, ranging from obituary writing, page design, pagination, and slot and rim work to the police beat to features and sports writing (including coverage of the 1987 and 1991 World Series) to opera and film reviews (including trips to Hollywood premieres and celebrity interviewing in Los Angeles). She has traveled across Europe, Hawaii, Mexico, Canada, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean.

She has received dozens of national and regional writing, reporting, and design awards, and her work has been published by USA Today, The New York Times News Service, Advertising Age, and regional publications. She was instrumental in two major newspaper redesign projects, including one with Mario Garcia of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She is the winner of several national and international awards for web design and content.

She has been married 28 years and has a 19-year-old son and a 12-year-old daughter. She is a classic-film and pop-culture buff, a kayaker, and an avid baseball fan.

Examples of scholarly writing:

"Imagining the Internet II: Technology Experts and Scholars Respond to Future Issues." Research report released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, September 2006.

"Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Prescience, and Predictions." A book outlining the development and future of networked communications, published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

"The Future of the Internet: Technology Experts and Scholars Evaluate Where the Network is Headed." Research report released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, January 2005. Co-authors, Lee Rainie and Susannah Fox of Pew Internet.

"Online Daily Newspaper Ethics 2000." Presented at AEJMC National Convention, Phoenix, August 2000, and National Student Media Convention, New Orleans, October, 2001. Co-author, Dr. David Arant, University of Memphis.

"Defamation in Cyberspace: A New Category has Been Established for Internet Service Providers." Presented at the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC, March, 2000.

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