regina_marchi

Regina
Marchi

Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies

Faculty

Office:
CI 104
PHONE:
848-932-8712
FAX:
732-932-6916
EMAIL:
rmarchi@rutgers.edu
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Regina Marchi studies alternative forms of media, political communication and civic engagement, focusing on populations historically marginalized from official politics and news media due to their race, ethnicity, social class, immigration status, gender or age. She has spoken nationally and internationally at scholarly conferences, universities and other venues, and has been interviewed by a variety of media outlets. She has traveled extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa observing a wide variety of media practices and cultural communication rituals. Prior to life in academia, she worked as a journalist in the U.S. and Central America and as a community organizer regarding health and environmental justice issues.  She is an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Center for Race and Ethnicity. 

Education

University of California San Diego
Ph.D., Communication

San Francisco State University
M.A., English Literature

Bates College
B.A., English Literature and Rhetoric

Research

Regina Marchi's research focuses on the intersections of media, culture, and politics. She is particularly interested in how traditionally disenfranchised communities, be they economically, linguistically, racially, ethnically, or politically marginalized, have been portrayed in the mainstream media over the decades and how these groups have utilized media to advocate for civil rights and fuller democratic participation.  She has also written on community radio and social media. 

Professor Marchi's latest book "Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism" (Cambridge University Press: 2017) is co-authored with Lynn Schofield Clark and introduces the concept of "connective journalism." This refers to the social media practices through which youth share stories, links, photos, videos and other "artifacts of engagement" that are precursors to civic participation. As youth share such artifacts to express their personal experiences, perspectives and feelings on public issues, they create emotional engagement with current political events, hailing like-minded others into counterpublics that are capable of collective and connective action. Marchi's first book, "Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon," examines the ways in which Chicano and other Latino artists and activists have used public art, collective ritual, and other alternative forms of media to express cultural identity, create community, and advocate for political rights.

Centers, Labs, Working Groups, and Clusters

Selected Publications

Marchi, R. (2018). “Media and Social Movements,” in Mediated Communication, DeGruyter Press.

Marchi, R. and L.S. Clark (2018).  Social media and connective journalism: The formation of counterpublics and youth civic participation, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.  Online: DOI: 10.1177/1464884918807811

Marchi, R. and L.S. Clark. (2017). Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism. Cambridge University Press.

Marchi, R. (2016). News Translators: Latino Immigrant Youth, Social Media and Citizenship Training.  Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

Marchi, R. (2009). Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon. New Brunswick. NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Awards & Recognitions

2020 Outstanding PhD Faculty Mentor Award, Doctoral Student Association 

2020 Distinguished Achievement in Teaching Award, Dept. of Journalism and Media Studies 

2018 James W. Carey Award for Media Research, Couch Center for Social and Internet Research

2018 Nancy Baym Top Book Award, Association of Internet Researchers

2018 Distinguished Achievement in Research Award, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers

2018  Visiting Scholar, University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy

2016 George Washington Medal of Honor for Public Communication

2015 Latin American Research Award, Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication

2010 National James W. Carey Award for Media Research, Carl Couch Center for Internet and Social Media

2010 International Latino Book Award for Best History/Political Book Day of the Dead in the USA

2010 Rutgers University Faculty Leadership in Diversity Award, Office of the President, Rutgers University

2010  Distinguished Achievement in Research Award, Department of Journalism and Media Studies

2009  Marsico Visiting Scholar, Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media, University of Denver

2009  Visiting Fellow, Global Seminar on Religion, Media and Culture, University of Ghana, Legon 

2009 Distinguished Achievement in Research Award, Department of Journalism and Media Studies 

2008 Distinguished Achievement in Teaching Award, Department of Journalism and Media Studies

Additional Resources

Other Publications:

Marchi, R. 2021. Migration, Gentrification and Meaningful Properties: Bathtub Madonnas as media in an Italian-American neighborhood in transition, Visual Communication Quarterly, 28:1, 3-18.
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Clark, LS and Marchi, R. 2019. “Storytelling the Self into Citizenship: How social media practices facilitate adolescent and emerging adult political life,” in Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A Networked Self: Birth, Life, Death, pp. 69-89. New York: Routledge.
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Marchi, R. 2018. Religion and Cultural Pluralism: Day of the Dead in Latin America and the United States. Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University.
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Marchi, R. 2016. Review of: Crafting Identity: Transnational Indian Arts and the Politics of Race in Central Mexico, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press (2015), The International Journal of Communication, v. 10, 812-817.
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Marchi, R. 2015. Legendary Locals of East Boston. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia/The History Press.
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Marchi, R. 2014. “The Moral Economy of Latino Art and Ritual” in M. Mattern and N. Love (Eds.), Doing Democracy: Activist art and cultural politics, pp. 75-95. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
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Marchi, R. 2013. "With Facebook, blogs and fake news, teens reject journalistic 'objectivity,'" Journal of Communication Inquiry 36(3): 246-262.
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Marchi, R. 2013.“Hybridity and Authenticity in US Day of the Dead,” Journal of American Folklore,126 (501): 272-301.
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Marchi, R. 2012. “From Disillusion to Engagement: Minority teen journalists and the news media,” Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 13(8): 750-765.
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Marchi, R. 2010. “Chicano Art as Alternative Media: Its influence on US society and beyond.” The International Journal of the Arts in Society. 4(5): 447- 464.
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Marchi, R. 2009. “Z-Radio, Boston: Teen journalism, political engagement, and efforts to democratize the airwaves,” Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 16(2): 127-143.
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Marchi, R. 2008. “Race and the News: Coverage of MLK Day and Día de los Muertos in two California dailies,” Journalism Studies, 9 (6): 925-944.
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Marchi, R. 2006. “El Día de los Muertos in the USA: Cultural ritual as political communication,” in J. Santino (Ed.) Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death, pp. 261-283. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.
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Marchi, R. 2005. “Reframing the Runway: A case study of the impact of community organizing on news and politics,” Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 6(4): 465-485.
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