Randall Livingstone

Profile

Dr. Randall Livingstone is an associate professor in the School of Communication at Endicott College. His academic interests include new/digital media, social media, collective intelligence, political economy, and digital automation. His research has appeared in numerous communication and media journals, including First Monday, Social Science Computer Review, Newspaper Research Journal, and Journal of Communication Inquiry.

Dr. Livingstone is also the faculty advisor for EC Radio.

Publications

Livingstone, R. M. (2019). In theory and practice? A review of scholarship on Wikipedia’s political economy. In R. Nichols & G. Martinez (Eds.), Political Economy of Media Industries: Global Transformations and Challenges. New York, NY: Routledge.

Livingstone, R. M. (2019). Searching for the source: Bots, misinformation, and you. In A. Damico (Ed.), Media, Journalism, and “Fake News”: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Livingstone, R. M. (2015). Models for understanding collective intelligence on Wikipedia. Social Science Computer Review. doi:10.1177/0894439315590209

Livingstone, R. M. (2014). Immaterial editors: Bots and bot policies across global Wikipedia. In P. Fichman & N. Hara (Eds.), Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online collaboration. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow.

Santana, A., Livingstone, R. M., & Cho, Y. (2013, Spring). Print readers recall more than do online readers. Newspaper Research Journal, 34(2), 78-92.

Livingstone, R. M. (2011). Better at life stuff: Consumption, identity, and class in Apple's "Get a Mac" campaign. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 35(3).

Livingstone, R. M. (2011). The myth of classlessness in Apple's "Get a Mac." FLOWTV, 13(11). (selected as a "FLOW Favorite 2011" by the editorial board)