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Tim Havens has published seven books and more than 30 essays on television studies, media globalization, race and media, platform studies, and the critical analysis of media industries. His most recent publication is Media Industries in the Digital Age: How Media Businesses Work Today with Amanda D. Lotz (Polity, 2024).

Awards

• Algorithmic Personalization and Online Radicalization: A Mixed Methods Approach. (Award Amount: $1,026,047), awarded by Minerva Research Institute, U.S. Department of Defense. Principal Investigator (Dr. Brian Ekdale), Co-Principal Investigators (Dr. Timothy Havens, Dr. Andrew High, Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd, Dr. Rishab Nithyanad), 2020-23
• Locating Budapest: The Film and Television Locations Industry and the Rise of an Alternative Media Capital. (Award Amount: 52,400 €), awarded by Corvinus Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary, 2020-21
• Outstanding Book Award, Communication Division for Black Television Travels: African-American Media Around the Globe (NYU Press, 2013), awarded by International Communication Association Popular Communication Division, 2015
• Faculty Fellowship, awarded by National Association of Television Programming Executives, 2001 & 2008
• Senior Fulbright Scholar, Research-Only Award to Hungary. “Hungarian Television Acquisitions and Scheduling Practices in Transition.”, awarded by Fulbright Scholar Program, 2002