Heidi Gautschi
Professional Title: Assistant Professor of Communications
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
Communication technology, both past and present.
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: Communications
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
Introduction to Communication, Culture & Communication, Social Media, Research Methods
Education: BA, Tufts University; MA, Teachers College, Columbia University; DEA, PhD, University of Paris X
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
- "From dots and dashes to bits and bytes : What the telegraph can teach us about 21st century change and transition", 7th Media in Transition Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2011.
- Co-editor and contributor, Dancing with Digital Natives (2011), CyberAge Books.
- “L’enseignement au Lycée de la Révolution Industrielle dans les Manuels Scolaires en France et aux États-Unis”, with Fatma Ramdani, Mémoires Fluctuantes/Fluctuating Memories conference, University of Paris 13, 2010.
- “The True Price of Privacy: What Users are Willing to Exchange for (Free) Content”, EContent Magazine, March 2008.
- “Lire le Vide et l’Indice dans les Archives : Communiquer et Reconstruire le Sens à travers une Source Authentique” (http://bit.ly/Hi8Gdz), co-authored with Shabnam Vaezi-Nejad, Les Cahiers de l’École, Volume 9, Les Mots Sans Visas, May 2007.
Heidi has spent half her life in France.