Cerianne Robertson

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Location
Faculty Memorial Hall, Room 454

  • PhD in Communication, University of Southern California
    MPhil in Sociology, University of Cambridge

  • Cerianne Robertson researches how power is formed, networked, wielded, and challenged in contests over cities’ futures. Her community-engaged research explores both a) the dominant discourses, imaginaries, and storytelling practices about space, place, race, and class, and how they structure the development of our cities; and b) the opportunities for alternative discourses, imaginaries, and storytelling practices
    that create spaces and momentum for more just political possibilities and futures.

    Cerianne's current work centers on spectacular urban development projects like stadiums and sports mega-events like the Olympics, as well as everyday struggles for survival and dignity in stadium borderlands.

  • 2024. The Stadium as Sociotechnical Change. International Journal of Communication, 18:793-799. (co-author: Pratik Nyaupane)
    2024. “Opportunities and Challenges for Critical Reporting at the Olympics: Journalists’ Perspectives From Tokyo 2020.” Communication & Sport 12(1):81-98.
    2024. Los Angeles 2028. In Olympic Cities: City agendas, planning, and the World’s Games, 1896-2032, 4th ed., edited by J.R. Gold & M.M Gold, 479-498. London and New York: Routledge. (co-author: Sven Daniel Wolfe)

    2022. “‘Built to host’? Built for whom? The LA2028 Olympics and Urban Exclusions.” In Mega events, urban transformations and social citizenship, edited by N. Cuppini, F. Bignami, and N. Hanakata. London and New York: Routledge.

    2018. “The Media Event Build-Up Phase: A Site of Contestation and Counternarratives.” International Journal of Communication 12:3207-3226. 

    2018. “Smarter than Smart: Rio de Janeiro's Flawed Emergence as a Smart City.” Journal of Urban Technology 25(3):47-64. (co-author: Christopher Gaffney)

  • COMC 1101: Communication and Culture: History, Theory, and Methods
    COMC 2112: Strategic Communication: Theory and Practice