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Jacqueline R. Vickery

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Media Arts

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2012
    Major: Radio, Television, & Film
    Specialization: Media Studies
    Dissertation: Worth the Risk: The Role of Regulations and Norms in Shaping Teens' Digital Media Practices
  • MA, University of Texas at Austin, 2008
    Major: Radio, Television, & Film
    Specialization: Media Studies
    Dissertation: In Her Own Words: Analyzing Girls' Identities, Communities, and Cultures through Blogs
  • BA, University of Oklahoma, 2006
    Major: Communication

Current Scheduled Teaching

No current or future courses scheduled.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

MRTS 3620.001Digital Media and SocietySpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 4665.001Gender, Race and Digital MediaFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 5665.001Gender, Race and Digital MediaFall 2022 SPOT
MRTS 5100.001Introduction to Graduate Studies in Media ArtsFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 5400.002Media Studies SeminarsSpring 2022 SPOT
MRTS 4410.002Topics in Digital Media StudiesSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 3620.001Digital Media and SocietyFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisFall 2021
MRTS 4515.001Teen MediaFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 5415.001Teen MediaFall 2021 SPOT
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2021
MRTS 4450.001Topics in Media Industry StudiesSummer 3W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 5121.001Digital Media StudiesSpring 2021 SPOT
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisSpring 2021
MRTS 5400.001Media Studies SeminarsSpring 2021 SPOT
MRTS 4410.001Topics in Digital Media StudiesSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisFall 2020
MRTS 5400.001Media Studies SeminarsFall 2020 SPOT
MRTS 5400.002Media Studies SeminarsFall 2020 SPOT
MRTS 4515.001Teen MediaFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 4410.001Topics in Digital Media StudiesFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 4450.004Topics in Media Industry StudiesFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 4475.001Digital Media and SocietySpring 2020 Syllabus
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisSpring 2020
MRTS 5121.001New Media TheorySpring 2020
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisFall 2019
MRTS 5121.001New Media TheorySpring 2019 SPOT
MRTS 5900.787Special ProblemsSpring 2019
MRTS 4450.004Topics in Industry StudiesSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisFall 2018
MRTS 5400.001Media Studies SeminarsFall 2018 SPOT
MRTS 4410.001Media Studies TopicsFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 5804.001MFA ColloquiumFall 2018
MRTS 5660.002Industry Studies TopicsSummer 5W2 2018 SPOT
MRTS 4450.002Topics in Industry StudiesSummer 5W2 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 4475.001Digital Media and SocietySpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisSpring 2018
MRTS 5121.001New Media TheorySpring 2018 SPOT
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisFall 2017
MRTS 4410.001Media Studies TopicsFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 3360.001Social Media StrategiesFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 4900.787Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2017
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisSpring 2017
MRTS 5121.001New Media TheorySpring 2017 SPOT
MRTS 4450.003Topics in Industry StudiesSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 4951.787Honors College Capstone ThesisFall 2016
MRTS 5950.787Master's ThesisFall 2016
MRTS 4410.001Media Studies TopicsFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
MRTS 5900.787Special ProblemsFall 2016
RTVF 5660.001Industry Studies TopicsSummer 5W2 2016 SPOT
RTVF 4450.001Topics in Industry StudiesSummer 5W2 2016 SPOT
RTVF 5950.787Master's ThesisSpring 2016
RTVF 5121.001New Media TheorySpring 2016 SPOT
RTVF 3360.001Social Media StrategiesSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
RTVF 5660.002Industry Studies TopicsFall 2015 SPOT
RTVF 5950.787Master's ThesisFall 2015
RTVF 4410.001Media Studies TopicsFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
RTVF 5900.787Special ProblemsFall 2015
RTVF 4450.002Topics in Industry StudiesFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
RTVF 5660.002Industry Studies TopicsSpring 2015
RTVF 5660.005Industry Studies TopicsSpring 2015
RTVF 5950.787Master's ThesisSpring 2015
RTVF 4450.002Topics in Industry StudiesSpring 2015 Syllabus
RTVF 4475.001Digital Media and SocietyFall 2014 Syllabus
RTVF 4475.002Digital Media and SocietyFall 2014 Syllabus
RTVF 5950.787Master's ThesisFall 2014
RTVF 3360.001Social Media StrategiesFall 2014 Syllabus
RTVF 3360.002Social Media StrategiesFall 2014 Syllabus
RTVF 4450.001Topics in Industry StudiesSummer 5W2 2014 Syllabus
RTVF 5660.001Industry Studies TopicsSpring 2014
RTVF 5950.787Master's ThesisSpring 2014
RTVF 5121.001New Media TheorySpring 2014
RTVF 4450.001Topics in Industry StudiesSpring 2014 Syllabus
RTVF 5660.002Industry Studies TopicsFall 2013
RTVF 5950.787Master's ThesisFall 2013
RTVF 4450.001Topics in Industry StudiesFall 2013 Syllabus
RTVF 4450.002Topics in Industry StudiesFall 2013 Syllabus
RTVF 5660.003Industry Studies TopicsSpring 2013
RTVF 5660.004Industry Studies TopicsSpring 2013
RTVF 4900.787Special ProblemsSpring 2013
RTVF 4450.003Topics in Industry StudiesSpring 2013 Syllabus
RTVF 4450.004Topics in Industry StudiesSpring 2013 Syllabus
RTVF 5660.001Industry Studies TopicsFall 2012
RTVF 5660.002Industry Studies TopicsFall 2012
RTVF 4450.004Topics in Industry StudiesFall 2012 Syllabus
RTVF 4450.005Topics in Industry StudiesFall 2012 Syllabus

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Watkins, S.C., Cho, A., Bermudez, A.L., Vickery, J.R., Shaw, V., Weinzimmer, L. (2018). The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality. NYU Press.
  • Vickery, J.R., Everbach, T. (2018). Mediating Misogyny: Technology, Gender, and Harassment. Palgrave.
  • Vickery, J.R. (2017). Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital World. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press.
  • Book Chapter

  • Vickery, J.R., Everbach, T., Blackwell, L., Franks, M., Friedman, B., Gibbons, S., Gillespie, T., Massanari, A. (2018). Conclusion: What can we do about mediated misogyny?. Mediating Misogyny. 389-412. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Vickery, J.R., Shaw, V. (2018). Technology on the edge of formal education. The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality. 78-104. NYU Press.
  • Vickery, J.R. (2018). This Isn’t New: Gender, Publics, and the Internet. Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment. 31-50. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Vickery, J.R., Everbach, T. (2018). The Persistence of Misogyny: From the Streets, to Our Screens, to the White House. Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, & Harassment. 1-28. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Vickery, J.R., Taylor, E., Rooney, R. (2016). Media discourses of girls at-risk and the domestication of mobile phone surveillance. Surveillance Futures: Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People. Routledge.
  • Vickery, J.R., Albarran, A.B. (2012). Foreword to The Social Media Industries. The Social Media Industries. Routledge.
  • Vickery, J.R., Mazzarella, S. (2010). Blogrings as Online Communities for Adolescent Girls. Girl Wide Web 2.0: Revisiting Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity.
  • Book Review

  • Vickery, J.R. (2014). Book Review: It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd (Yale University Press). Mobile Media & Communication. 3 (1) 147-8.
  • Vickery, J.R. (2014). Book Review: Memes in Digital Culture by Limor Shifman. Information, Communication, & Society. 18 (12) 1450-1.
  • Vickery, J.R. (2009). Book Review: Instant Identity: Adolescent Girls and the World of Instant Messaging. 33 (1) 82-5.
  • Conference Proceeding

  • Vickery, J.R. (2022). "Check Your Facts, Fetus": #GenZ vs #Millennials and the Role of TikTok in the Generationing Process. Selected Papers of Internet Research.
  • Vickery, J.R. (2021). "Dear Congress, Just Play Dead": TikTok's Absurd Guide to Surviving #Lockdown. 2021 Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR).
  • Vickery, J.R. (2020). The Memeification of #SchoolShootings in the U.S.: Youth, TikTok, and Playful Mediated Bodies. Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/11357
  • Encyclopedia Article

  • Vickery, J.R., Downing, J. (2010). $pread Magazine. The Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media.
  • Vickery, J.R. (2010). Belle de Jour.
  • Vickery, J.R. (2010). Sex Workers' Blogs.
  • Journal Article

  • Vickery, J.R. (2021). Are We Centering the Adult in Youth Media Education? A Case for Valuing and Circulating Playful Youth-Produced Media Texts. Journal of Media Literacy Education. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/
  • Vickery, J.R. (2015). Your Tumblr makes me want to study: Thoughts about the studyblr community. FlowTV. 21 (4)
  • Vickery, J.R. (2014). Beyond privacy: concerns about social privacy. FlowTV. 21 (4)
  • Vickery, J.R. (2014). Oh Snap! Stop shaming the sext. FlowTV. 21 (2)
  • Jacqueline Ryan Vickery. (2014). Talk Whenever, Wherever: How the U.S. mobile phone industry commodifies talk, genders youth mobile practices, and domesticates surveillance. Journal of Church and State. 8 (4) 387-403. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MY8TcJ7JQQR7AhradEda/.VCRcRfldXUI#.VCRe2vldXUI
  • Vickery, J.R. (2014). The Role of After-School Digital Media Clubs in Closing Participation Gaps and Expanding Social Networks. Equity & Excellence in Education. 47 (1) 78-95.
  • Vickery, J.R. (2014). Youth Teaching Youth: Learning to code as an example of interest-driven learning. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 57 (5) 361-365.
  • Vickery, J.R. (2014). “I don’t have anything to hide, but…”: The challenges and negotiations of social and mobile media privacy for non-dominant youth. Information, Communication, & Society. 18 (3) 281-294.
  • Vickery, J.R. (2013). The Curious Case of Confession Bear: The reappropriation of online macro image memes. Information, Communication, & Society. 17 (3) 301-325.
  • Jacqueline Ryan Vickery. (2009). "i HATE HATE HATE being single" and "why is getting a bf so hard for me": Reproducing heteronormative femininity on gURL.com. https://www.academia.edu/819265/_i_HATE_HATE_HATE_being_single_and_why_is_getting_a_bf_so_hard_for_me_Reproducing_heteronormative_femininity_on_gURL._com
  • Palgrave Marketing Campaign

  • Vickery, J.R. (2018). Young people, intersectionality, and marginalization. Other. Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/campaigns/media-and-marginalisation.
  • Scholarly Note

  • Vickery, J.R. (2012). Creative Ways Teens Maintain Privacy with Social Media. https://clrn.dmlhub.net/content/creative-ways-teens-maintain-social-privacy-with-social-media

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Vickery, J.R., "Let's Talk about Gender Workshops," sponsored by Office for Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $940.00 Funded. (2016 - 2018).
  • Vickery, J.R., "Digital Media & Learning Summer Fellow," sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, Private, Funded. ( - 2012).
  • Vickery, J.R., "Jesse H. Jones Endowed Centennial Fellowship," sponsored by University of Texas at Austin, State, $10000 Funded. (2011 - 2012).
  • Grant - Research

  • Martin, E. (Co-Principal), Vickery, J. (Co-Principal), "Community Media in North Texas," sponsored by National Endowment of the Arts, National, $20000 Funded. (2021 - 2023).
  • Heard, M. (Principal), Vickery, J. (Supporting), Sweeten, B. (Supporting), Murrell, A. (Supporting), "UNT Faculty Mentoring Grant," sponsored by UNT Faculty Success Office, Local, $5000 Funded. (2019 - 2020).
  • Vickery, J.R., "Youth Media Lab," sponsored by Division of Institutional Equity & Diversity, Local, $5000 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Heard, M. (Principal), Vickery, J. (Supporting), Frith, J. (Supporting), Sweeten, B. (Supporting), Murrell, A. (Supporting), "UNT Faculty Mentoring Grant," sponsored by UNT Faculty Success Office, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2018 - 2019).
  • Vickery, J.R., English, A.E., Palmer, A.M., "Team Grant Mentoring Program - Marginalized Groups & Textual/Content Analysis," University of North Texas, $1700 Funded. (2017 - 2018).
  • Champlin, S. (Supporting), Frith, J. (Supporting), Hlavacik, M.J. (Principal), Jensen, K. (Supporting), Lakes, R. (Supporting), Larke-Walsh, G.M. (Supporting), Marrero, M.T. (Supporting), Nogay, D.L. (Supporting), Vickery, J.R. (Supporting), "Research Colloquium in Communication-Allied Disciplines," sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $12000 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
  • Grant - Service

  • Vickery, J.R., "Mediating Change Conference," sponsored by Mayhill Behavioral Health Hospital, Regional, $4100.00 Funded. (2018 - 2018).
  • Vickery, J.R., "Mediating Change Conference," sponsored by Mayhill Behavioral Health Hospital, Regional, Funded. (2018 - 2018).
  • Grant - Teaching

  • Vickery, J.R., "Refugee Forum and Storytelling Project," sponsored by Office of Equity and Diversity, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
  • Sponsored Research

  • Vickery, J.R., "Associated Researcher," sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, Private, Funded. (2011 - 2014).
  • Vickery, J.R., "International School on Digital Transformation," sponsored by UT Austin-Portugal Digital Media Program, International, Funded. ( - 2011).
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