Johanna Blakley

Expert in popular culture, digital technology and entertainment, including media habits of liberals versus those of conservatives

Managing Director and Director of Research, The Norman Lear Center

Has two talks on TED.com with nearly two million views: Social Media & the End of Gender and Lessons from Fashion’s Free Culture
Currently co-Principal Investigator, with Marty Kaplan, on the Media Impact Project, a hub for collecting, developing and sharing approaches for measuring the impact of media, which has received $3.75 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Open Society Foundation
Editor of the Norman Lear Center Press, where she has produced over 40 titles, including Warners’ War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood; Ready to Share: Fashion & the Ownership of Creativity; Artists, Technology & the Ownership of Creative Content; and Television’s Changing Image of American Jews.
Currently on the advisory board of Women@Paley at the Paley Center for Media; FEM Inc., a technology venture, and she’s a fellow in the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities
PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she taught courses on popular culture and 20th Century literature
Former web producer and digital archivist at Vivendi-Universal Games
On the editorial board of the International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology
Founding member of the board of directors for Les Figues Press, a venue for literary experimentation