Deputy Director, Norman Lear Center, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California

Johanna Blakley conducts research on celebrity culture, global entertainment, and digital technology. She's a member of the Entertainment Computing working group in the International Federation for Information Processing.

Before coming to the Lear Center in 2000, she was a web producer/web analyst for Knowledge Adventure, and a web consultant for Blueprint R&D.

Blakley has an M.A. in English from the University of Oregon, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara.