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Dr Jeffrey Lane

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Associate Professor of Communication, Rutgers University New Brunswick, United States

Email: jeffrey.lane@rutgers.edu

Profile

Jeffrey Lane is Associate Professor of Communication in the School of Communication & Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, United States. He studies communication and technology as it relates to urban life, youth culture, and criminal justice. He approaches these topics through ethnographic fieldwork carried out in person and online. Lane is the author of The Digital Street (Oxford University Press, 2019), a neighborhood study of social media use in Harlem (NYC). His current streams of research include micro-mobility in the South Bronx, youth exposure to gun violence, and the impacts of social media and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on teens and parents in New Jersey. Lane teaches several courses at SC&I — among them Introduction to Communication & Information Processes, Urban Communication, Communication, Technology & Society, and doctoral courses in Qualitative Methods and Ethnography.

Research

Publications

The Digital Street (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Expertise

Ethnography, digital ethnography, youth culture, social media, violence intervention, criminal and juvenile justice
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