Lynn Schofield Clark

Lynn Schofield Clark is an American media critic and scholar whose research focuses on media studies and film studies. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. She is author of several books and articles on the role social and visual media play in the lives of diverse U.S. adolescents. In her 2017 book co-authored with Regina Marchi, ''Young People and the Future of News,'' Clark and Marchi utilize an ethnographic approach to tell the stories of how young people engage with social media and legacy media both as producers and consumers of news. The book received the 2018 Nancy Baym Book Award from the Association of Internet Researchers and the 2018 James Carey Media Research Award from the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research Clark's book regarding parenting in the digital age is titled ''The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age'' (Oxford University Press, 2012). Clark’s main contributions are in the areas of family media studies, media rich youth participatory action research and the mediatization (media) of world religions.

Clark’s work is interdisciplinary, drawing on a variety of scholarly disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. She received the University of Denver´s highest honor of Distinguished Professor in 2022. She has published in the areas of media studies, sociology, religious studies, theology, and American studies. She is also Director of the Edward W. Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver. She served as President of the international academic organization the Association of Internet Researchers and chaired the Denver host committee for the AoIR 2013 meeting. She also served as President of the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture and was co-director of the first International Conference on Religion, Media, and Culture in 1996. She was a member of the academic advisory board for the Pew Internet & American Life project at its founding at the Pew Research Center. Clark has been recognized for her innovative teaching and was named the 2012 Service Learning Faculty of the Year at the University of Denver. She oversaw a class parody production of the popular television show ''The Office'', which highlighted the discrepancy between how students and faculty members view the use of technology in higher education, a video that went viral. Provided by Wikipedia