About
Christine Larson teaches journalism at the University of Colorado, where she researches the impact of digital technology on media workers. Her areas of expertise include media industries and cultural production; gender, identity and inequality; book publishing; and platform labor.
An award-winning journalist, author and scholar, Larson has frequently written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report and many other publications. Her scholarly work has appeared in leading academic journals including: New Media & Society; Information, Communication & Society; and Media, Culture and Society. She is the author of four books. Her newest book, Love in the Time of Self-Publishing (Princeton, 2024) is a 40-year labor history of romance writers in America. It offers lessons in creative labor, solidarity and inclusion in the age of digital publishing.
Larson holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in communication from Stanford University and a B.A. from Princeton University. She was a John S. Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford; a Rebele First Amendment Fellow; and an ACLS Fellowship recipient. As a senior leader with The OpEd Project, she has led Public Voices fellowships for the University of Arizona, the Ford Foundation, Dartmouth College and other institutions