Holly Kruse

Holly Kruse

Assistant Professor of Communication Oliphant Hall 132
(918)631-3845
holly-kruse@utulsa.edu

My research background is one that emphasizes critical and culture approaches to the study of media artifacts and communication technologies. I am particularly interested in analyses of communication practices, meanings and technologies, and I have used this approach to interrogate the music industry, and other culture industries. My book (Site and Sound: Understanding Independent Music Scenes), and the published work leading up to that book, grapples with notions of identity and subjectivity, as well as with the formation of social networks, the construction of social space, the uses and meanings of physical spaces and places, the structures of economic relations, and the interrelationship of these elements.

My current research examines communication technologies, social interaction, presence and co-presence, and private and public spaces. Ideas about space and place are continuing themes in my research program. Ideological constructions of domestic space and public space, and how the increasingly common transgressions across barriers that separate them are negotiated, are central to my recent work on interactive media and horse racing and on the introduction of the personal computer into the home. Understanding this negotiation was the focus of earlier research on the integration of the early phonograph into the American home.

Education and Degrees Earned

  • Ph.D., Communication, the University of Illinois
  • B.A., Political Science and History, the University of Iowa
  • Post-graduate certificate, Equine Industry, the University of Louisville

Areas of Academic Specialty

  • New media
  • Communication technology
  • Gender and media
  • Political economy of mass media
  • Sociology of communication

Previous Teaching Experience

  • Assistant Professor (1995-1998)
    • La Salle University
    • Visiting Assistant Professor (1991-1993)
      • University of Louisville 
      • Lecturer (1991-2001)
        • University of Louisville 

        Professional Affiliations

        • International Communication Association
        • Association of Internet Researchers

        Courses Taught at TU

        • Communication Technology and Society (COM 2523)
        • Inquiry in Communication (COM 3113)
        • Interpersonal Communication (WS 3323)
        • Principles of Visual Communication (COM 3483)
        • Principles of Visual Communication (COM 3483)

        Awards & Recognition

        • Member, Beta Gamma Sigma honor society
        • Member, Kappa Tau Alpha honor society
        • Member, Phi Kappa Phi honor society
        • Nominated for university-wide outstanding graduate student teaching award by University of Illinois College of Communication undergraduate students.
        • University of Louisville, Equine Industry Program, Distinguished Guest Faculty

        Publications

        • Site and Sound: Understanding Independent Music Scenes
          New York: Peter Lang. 2003.
        • Betting on News Corporation: Interactive media, gambling, and global information flows
          Forthcoming, Television and New Media. 2008.
        • Abandoning the absolute: Transcendence and gender in popular music discourse
          In S. Jones (Ed.), Pop Music and the Press. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2002.
        • An organization of impersonal relations: The internet and networked markets
          First Monday: Peer-Review Journal of the Internet, 12(11). 2007.
        • Local independent music scenes and the implications of the internet
          Forthcoming in T. Bell and O. Johansson (Eds.), Turn Up the Volume: New Essays in Music Geography. London: Ashgate. 2009.
        • Media, marketing, and memory
          In R. King and D. Leonard (Eds.), Visual Economies of/in Motion: Sport and Film. New York: Peter Lang. 2006.
        • Narrowcast technology, interactivity, and the economic relations of space: The case of horse race simulcasting
          New Media & Society 4(3), 385-404. 2002.
        • Social interaction, the arrangement of interior space, and racetrack renovation
          The Journal of Sport and Social Issues 27(4): 330-345. 2003.