PhD Candidate & Communication Researcher
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Ioana Literat is a PhD student and new media researcher at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. Her research—which currently centres on crowdsourced art—examines participatory practices of collective creativity, as mediated by digital technologies. She has recently been awarded the Phi Kappa Phi Award for her research on crowdsourced art, and her work has been published in The International Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and Postmodern Culture, among others. Ioana's background is in media literacy and digital storytelling; she has taught filmmaking and social justice curricula to children in the Dominican Republic, Romania, Uruguay and India.