Career
Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective), a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Civic Media, a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute at New York University, and an Associate Professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Her research focuses on social change and media technologies, particularly on the intersection of humans, mobile devices, and social networks. She has published on cultures of technology use and the way media histories inform the present.
Crawford was previously part of the Canberra electronic music duo B(if)tek (along with Nicole Skeltys) and released three albums between 1998 and 2003.
As a writer Crawford has written for The Sydney Morning Herald and Foreign Policy. She was a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development and in March 2008 she was selected as one of 1000 Australians to attend the Australia 2020 Summit in Canberra on 19–20 April 2008.
Crawford has spoken and published academic papers on such topics as social media, government regulation of media content, the interplay between gender and mobile devices, young people and sexting, and big data. She has given keynote addresses at venues such as the 2013 O"Reilly Strata Conference and the 2013 DataEDGE conference hosted by the University of California, Berkeley School of Information.
Her next book, expected in 2014, is the co-authored Understanding the Internet: Language, Technology, Media, Power.
