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DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

Dr. Holly Kruse

Assistant Professor

Baird Hall, Room 221D
918-343-7879
hkruse@rsu.edu
Personal Web Page

Education

Post-graduate Certificate, 2000
Department of Equine Business, College of Business and Public Administration
University of Louisville

Ph.D., Communication, 1995
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.A., Political Science and History, 1986
University of Iowa

Professional Experience

2001-2010, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication
University of Tulsa

1995-1998, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
La Salle University

1991-1993, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
University of Louisville

Publications

Book

  • Kruse, H.  (2003).  Site and Sound: Understanding Independent Music Scenes. New York: Peter Lang.

Completed Book Manuscript Under Review

  • Kruse, H.  Racing to the Wire: New Media and the Redefinition of Space.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Kruse, H.  (2010).  Local identity and independent music scenes, online and off. Forthcoming, Popular Music and Society.
  • Kruse, H.  (2009). Betting on News Corporation: Interactive media, gambling, and global information flows.  Television and New Media 10(2), 179-194.
  • Kruse, H.  (2007). “An organization of impersonal relations”: The internet and networked markets. First Monday: Peer-Review Journal of the Internet, 12(11).
  • Kruse, H.  (2003).  Social interaction, the arrangement of interior space, and racetrack renovation.  The Journal of Sport and Social Issues 27(4): 330-345.
  • Kruse, H.  (2002).  Narrowcast technology, interactivity, and the economic relations of space: The case of horse race simulcasting.  New Media & Society 4(3), 385-404.
  • Kruse, H.  (2000).  Kate Bush: Enigmatic chanteuse as pop pioneer.  Soundscapes: Journal on Media Culture 3(November), http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/.  Originally published in Tracking: Popular Music Studies 1, 13-22, 1988.
  • Kruse, H.  (1993).  Early audio technology and domestic space.  Stanford Humanities Review 3(2), 1-16.
  • Kruse, H.  (1993).  Subcultural identity in alternative music culture.  Popular Music 12(1), 33-42, 1993.
  • Kruse, H.  (1990).  College music: The authentic story?  ONETWOTHREEFOUR 8, 65-74.

Book Chapters

  • Kruse, H. (2011).  Pipeline as network: Pneumatic systems and the social order. Forthcoming in D. Park, S. Jones, and N. Jankowski (Eds.), The Long History of New Media.  New York: Peter Lang.
  • Kruse, H.  (2010). The place of internet gambling: Presence, vice, and domestic space.  Forthcoming in M. Christensen, C. Christensen & A. Jansson (Eds.), Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space.  New York: Peter Lang.
  • Kruse, H.  (2009).  Local independent music scenes and the implications of the internet.  In T. Bell & O. Johansson (Eds.), Sound, Society and the Geography of Popular Music.  London: Ashgate.
  • Kruse, H.  (2006). Media, marketing, and memory.  In R. King and D. Leonard (Eds.), Visual Economies of/in Motion: Sport and Film.  New York: Peter Lang.
  • Kruse, H.  (2002).  Abandoning the absolute: Transcendence and gender in popular music discourse.  In S. Jones (Ed.), Pop Music and the Press.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Kruse, H.  (2000).  In praise of Kate Bush.  In S. Frith and A. Goodwin (Eds.), On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. New York: Routledge.  (Pantheon edition, 1990)
  • Kruse, H.  (1999).  Gender.  In B. Horner and T. Swiss (Eds.), Popular Music and Culture: New Essays on Key Terms.  New York: Blackwell. 
  • Kruse, H.  (1998).  Public policy, the market, and popular music studies in the United States.  In T. Hautamaki and H. Jarviluoma (Eds.), Music on Show: Issues of Performance.  Tampere: University of Tampere.
  • Kruse, H.  (1997).  Fields of practice: Musical production, public policy, and the market. In T. Swiss, J. Sloop, and A. Herman (Eds.), Mapping the Beat.  New York: Blackwell.
  • Kruse, H.  (1995).  Institutional practices in alternative music scenes.  In W. Straw et al. (Eds.), Popular Music: Style and Identity. Montreal: Dufferin Press.

Presentations

Invited Off-Campus Talks

  • Kruse, H.  (2010).  Social media, interactivity, and business. Kentucky International Equine Summit, Lexington, KY, April.
  • Kruse, H.  (2009).  Social media and the racing industry.  36th Annual Symposium on Racing & Gaming, Tucson, AZ, December.
  • Kruse, H.  (2009).  Sex, gender and society: Key issues.  Tulsa Women's and Children's Center.  Tulsa, OK.
  • Kruse, H.  (2007).  New media and pari-mutuel wagering.  College of Business and Public Administration, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
  • Kruse, H.  (2002).  Horse race simulcasting and the implications of interactive media.  University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Communication, Chicago, IL.
  • Kruse, H.  (2001).  An analysis of the integration of audio and video information on the Television Games Network. Equine Industry Lecture Series, College of Business and Public Administration, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
    Kruse, H.  (1996).  Fields of practice: Musical production, public policy, and the market.  Drake University Popular Music Conference, Des Moines, IA.
  • Kruse, H.  (1995).  Public policy, the market, and popular music studies in the United States: A response to Keith Negus.  International Association for the Study of Popular Music, international meeting, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland.

Conference Presentations

  • Kruse, H.  (2009).  Online gambling and the critical spaces of vice.  Association of Internet Researchers, Milwaukee, October.
  • Kruse, H. (2009). Tensions between academic and corporate research: An industry example.  Roundtable.  Association of Internet Researchers, Milwaukee, October.
  • Kruse, H.  (2009). Internet gambling and the changing meanings of domestic space.  International Communication Association, Chicago, May.
  • Kruse, H.  (2009). The disembodiment of local music? The internet, presence, and music scenes.  Experience Music Project Pop Conference, Seattle, April.
  • Kruse, H.  (2008).  Gender and interactive media environments. Association of Internet Researchers, Copenhagen, October.
  • Kruse, H., Paasonen, S., Senft, T., & Breindahl, C. (2008).  Inside and outside AoIR: Hierarchies of value in internet research.  Roundtable.  Association of Internet Researchers, Copenhagen, October.
  • Kruse, H.  (2008).  Local identity and independent music scenes in the internet age. International Communication Association. Montreal, May.
  • Kruse, H.  (2008).  Non-ambient screens and the reconfiguration of public space. Exploring New Media Worlds conference, Texas A&M University, March.
  • Kruse, H.  (2007).  “It Can Sing Like Caruso… And Calculate Like Einstein”: Domesticating new media technologies. Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver, BC.
  • Kruse, H.  (2007).  Teaching old and new communication technologies as material culture.  South Central Eighteenth-Century Studies Society, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  • Kruse, H.  (2006). “Can you share a drink with your laptop?”  Public social practice and communication technologies.  Association of Internet Researchers, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Kruse, H.  (2005).  Betting on News Corp.  Association of Internet Researchers, Chicago, IL.
  • Kruse, H.  (2004).  Marketing, media, and matters of memory. North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Albuquerque, NM.
  • Kruse, H.  (2003).  Time, space, and information flows in online pari-mutuel markets. Association of Internet Researchers, Toronto, ON.
  • Kruse, H.  (2003).  Social interaction, the arrangement of interior space, and racetrack renovation.  Media Ecology Association, Hempstead, NY.
  • Kruse, H.  (2002).  Spatial relations and experience: A case study in interactive media. National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.
  • Kruse, H.  (2001).  Narrowcast technology and interactivity, past and future: The case of horse race simulcasting.  National Communication Association. Atlanta, GA.
  • Kruse, H.  (2001).  "Watch and win"?: The (dis)integration of visual information on the Television Games Network.  International Communication Association, Washington, D.C.
  • Kruse, H.  (1997).  The spatial and the social in local cultural practice.  International Communication Association, Montreal, QC.
  • Kruse, H.  (1995).  Making popular music history: The genrefication of college music. International Communication Association, Albuquerque, NM.
  • Kruse, H.  (1993).  Institutional practices in alternative music scenes.  International Association for the Study of Popular Music, international meeting, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.
  • Kruse, H.  (1992).  Subcultural practice and the articulation of identity in alternative music communities.  Union for Democratic Communication, Trent University, Peterborough, ON.
  • Kruse, H.  (1992).  "It's a man's world"?: Intersections of gender, race and street culture in rap music video.  "Console-ing Passions": Television, Video, and Feminist Studies Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
  • Kruse, H.  (1992).  Alternative music culture: A case study.  Popular Culture Association, Louisville, KY.
  • Kruse, H.  (1991).  Audio technology and domestic space.  International Association for the Study of Popular Music, USA chapter, Chicago, IL.
  • Kruse, H.  (1991).  Abandoning the absolute: Towards a feminist phenomenology of rock and pop.  International Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
  • Kruse, H.  (1991).  Disney dogs: Canines in the spaces of capitalism.  International Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Professional Service

  • Member of Feminist Scholarship Division Awards Committee, International Communication Association, 2008-2009.
  • Member of executive committee, Association of Internet Researchers, 2005-present.
  • Manager of email lists, Association of Internet Researchers, 2005-present.
  • Book endorser for Alan O’Connor’s Punk Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy, Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
  • Manuscript reviewer, Information, Communication and Society, 2009.
  • Manuscript reviewer, Popular Music and Society, 2008.
  • Manuscript reviewer, Communication Theory, 2007.
  • Manuscript reviewer, New Media & Society, 2006-present.
  • Manuscript reviewer, The Information Society, 2004.
  • Manuscript reviewer, Sex Roles, 2003-2004.
  • Manuscript reviewer, Southern Journal of Communication, 2002-2004.
  • Manuscript reviewer, American Quarterly, 1998.
  • Manuscript reviewer, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 1996-1998.

Professional Affiliations

  • International Communication Association
  • Association of Internet Researchers