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Research
Research Agenda
RESEARCH AGENDA Since 2016, my primary research area has examined the process of civic media production (media created with the intent of civic participation) to facilitate self-empowerment, agency and civic engagement within historically marginalized populations through a project entitled the Salem Civic Media Project. Implemented through a collaboration with the Salem Public School District, this…
Civic Media Research
This area of research focuses on the relationship between civic media (media created with the intent of civic participation) and self-empowerment, agency, and civic engagement within historically marginalized populations. Throughout the project descriptions below, you will see a variety of similar terms used: civic media, participatory media, community media, and citizens’ media. My examination of…
Community-Engaged Research
Critically Engaged Civic Learning This research area contributes to a longstanding conversation about the implementation of service-learning by proposing an updated revision for the 21st century: critically-engaged civic learning (CECL). The term service-learning is problematic as it invokes inequitable power dynamics that inherently privilege one group over another, with more privileged groups providing “service” to…
Curriculum Vitae
Download a .pdf version: CV-Feb22 CINDY S. VINCENT csvincentphd@gmail.com Education 2014 Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, Communication (Media Studies) Doctoral dissertation: Can You Spare Some (Social) Change?: Participatory Media as Catalysts for Change in Poor and Homeless Communities 2013 Graduate Certificate, University of Oklahoma, Women’s & Gender Studies 2009 M.A., California State University, Sacramento, Communication…
Cindy S. Vincent, Ph.D. 