Samantha Close

Samantha Close earned her PhD in Communication at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include digital media, theory-practice, fan studies, gender, race, and Japanese media. She focuses particularly on labor and transforming models of creative industries and capitalism.

Her documentary, I Am Handmade: Crafting in the Age of Computers, based on her most recent research project, is hosted online by Vice Media’s Motherboard channel. Her writing appears in edited volumes and academic journals, such as Feminist Media Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures and Anthropology Now.

Education

• University of Southern California (2012 — 2017)
• M.Phil Glasgow School of Art (2008 — 2010)
• Bachelor's degree Yale University (2003 — 2007)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Communication DePaul University (2017)
• Graduate Student University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communications (2012)