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Jonathan Wynn |
Education and Interests
Ph.D. City University of New York–Graduate Center, 2006
Jonathan Wynn works at the intersection of urban and cultural sociology, and his dissertation project, The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York,(2011, University of Chicago Press, Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Series). His work has been published in City & Community, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Forum, and Contexts Magazine, and he has a new article in Ethnography called, "Hobo to Doormen: The Characters of Qualitative Analysis, Past and Present."
His second research project, tentatively entitled *Music City: Festivals and Culture in Great American Cities,* is under contract at the University of Chicago Press. This is a comparative, multi–method analysis of three music festivals (the Country Music Association Festival in Nashville, the "Dunkin Donuts" Newport Folk Festival, and the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas), to examine how city stakeholders have adopted "festivalization" as an urban cultural policy, and the affects of city branding on both locals and visitors, event organizers and participants.
His third research thread is a community study highlighting how place-based social media (e.g., Facebook, Google Maps, etc.) were used in a college town to mobilize social and material capital in the face of a lethal arson spree, and compares it to a similar event in a proximate, poorer community by using content analysis of over 640 community members’ online activity and traditional media, paired with interviews with key community members.
Jonathan Wynn is also the co-editor of the ASA Culture Section Newsletter (with Claudio Benzecry and Andrew Deener and will be a regular contributor to "Everday Sociology" in 2012.
In the Fall 2012 he starts as a Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
