Colin+Rhinesmith

=Colin Rhinesmith= **Home page**: http://crhinesmith.com
 * Your Country: USA**
 * Affiliation:** School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma
 * Contact:** crhinesmith_AT_ou_dot_edu

Colin Rhinesmith is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His research and teaching interests are focused within the areas of social and community informatics.

Rhinesmith received his Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was an Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded Information in Society Fellow. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Media Studies from Emerson College in Boston, MA.

Rhinesmith's research and teaching interests include social and community informatics, infrastructure studies, telecommunications and information policy, and ethnography of information and communication technology. He is particularly interested in understanding how individuals and groups use information and communication technology in support of community-defined development goals.

Rhinesmith has been a Google Policy Fellow and an Adjunct Research Fellow with the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute in Washington, D.C. He was also a Summer Institute Fellow with the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, hosted at Microsoft Research New England, organized by the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Rhinesmith has been nationally recognized as a leader within the field of community media and technology. His work has been mentioned by the Federal Communications Commission, PBS MediaShift, and the MacArthur Foundation's Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning, and he was awarded the 2010 Buske Leadership Award from the Alliance for Community Media.

Previously, Rhinesmith was Community Media and Technology Manager for Cambridge Community Television (CCTV), where he managed a citizen journalism program, public computing center, and community wireless network. Before joining CCTV, he worked for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

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