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Patricia Aufderheide
Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at the American University in Washington DC and founder-director of the Center for Social Media there. She is the author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007) and The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). She has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards, including career achievement awards in 2006 from the International Documentary Association and in 2008 from the International Digital Media and Arts Association.