John V. Pavlik

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John V. Pavlik is professor and chair of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he is also director of the Journalism Resources Institute and coordinator for the Media Studies area of the Communication Doctoral Program [1]. He is a contributing editor for the Online Journalism Review. He is a former columnist for CNN.com. He is the former executive director of The Center for New Media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was also a professor. He is a former senior fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Previously, he served as the founding director of the School of Communication at San Diego State University. In 2000, he was appointed the inaugural Shaw Foundation Visiting Professor of Media Technology at the School of Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the former associate director for Research and Technology Studies at The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University.

Pavlik has written many publications on the impact of new technology on journalism, media and society. His most recent books are Converging Media (co-authored with Shawn McIntosh), published in 2004 by Allyn and Bacon, and Journalism and New Media, published in 2001 by Columbia University Press. His other books include New Media Technology: Cultural and Commercial Perspectives, 2nd edition published in 1998 by Allyn & Bacon. Pavlik has also authored or co-authored more than a dozen computer software packages for education in journalism and communication including News Reporting Simulation: A Fire Scenario [2]. In collaboration with Columbia University computer science professor Steven Feiner, Pavlik has developed the Situated Documentary, a new type of documentary utilizing mobile augmented reality technology in the form of the Mobile Journalist Workstation (MJW). [3]

Pavlik's Ph.D. and M.A. in mass communication are from the University of Minnesota. He is a 1978 graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.^{[citation needed]}