Annalee Newitz Explained

Annalee Newitz
Birth Date:7 May 1969
Birth Place:Irvine, California, U.S.
Education:University of California, Berkeley
Occupation:Journalist, editor, author

Annalee Newitz (born May 7, 1969) is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. From 1999 to 2008, Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004, Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015, Newitz was editor-in-chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. They have written for the periodicals Popular Science, Film Quarterly and Wired. As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times.

Early life

Newitz was born in 1969, and grew up in Irvine, California, graduating from Irvine High School, and in 1987 moved to Berkeley, California.[1] In 1996, Newitz started doing freelance writing, and in 1998 completed a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley, with a dissertation on images of monsters, psychopaths, and capitalism in twentieth century American popular culture,[2] the content of which later appeared in book form from Duke University Press.[3] [4] [5]

Around 1999, Newitz co-founded the Post-World War II American Literature and Culture Database in an attempt to chronicle modern literature and popular culture.[6]

Career

Newitz became a full-time writer and journalist in 1999 with an invitation to write a weekly column for the Metro Silicon Valley, a column which then ran in various venues for nine years. Then they served as the culture editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian from 2000 to 2004.

Newitz was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 2002 to 2003, supporting them as a research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[7] From 2004 to 2005 Newitz was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and from 2007 to 2009 was on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, a Hugo award-winning author and commentator, co-founded Other magazine.[8] [9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Annalee . Newitz . 2006 . About Annalee Newitz . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150302182434/http://www.techsploitation.com/about/ . March 2, 2015 . February 19, 2015.
  2. ProQuest, 2015, "Citation/Abstract: When we pretend that we're dead: Monsters, psychopaths and the economy in American popular culture [Newitz, Annalee… University of California, Berkeley], see http://search.proquest.com/docview/304421126, accessed February 19, 2015.
  3. Book: Newitz, Annalee . Pretend we're dead : capitalist monsters in American pop culture . 2006 . Duke University Press . 9780822387855 . Durham . 220950460.
  4. Book: Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture . April 9, 2023 . Duke University Press.
  5. Web site: Book Review/Interview: Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture by Annalee Newitz Blogcritics . February 19, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150219224315/http://blogcritics.org/book-reviewinterview-pretend-were-dead-capitalist/ . February 19, 2015.
  6. Online Literature . January 8, 1999 . Cheifet . Stewart . Net Cafe . August 13, 2018.
  7. Knight Science Journalism, 2015, "Alumni Fellows, Class of 2003: Annalee Newitz, culture editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian", Web site: Annalee Newitz Knight Science Journalism at MIT . 2015-02-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150219225348/https://ksj.mit.edu/fellows/2003/newitz-annalee/ . 2015-02-19.
  8. Web site: Marech . Rona . August 31, 2004 . A pop culture magazine for freaks and 'new outcasts' / Other journal is pro-rant, pro-loopy and pro-anarchy . 2023-04-09 . SFGATE.
  9. Web site: Mathew . Ingramm . Gawker Media merging Gizmodo and io9 teams into a tech super-hub Gigaom.com . January 15, 2015 . 2015-02-19 . 2022-04-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220407203224/https://gigaom.com/2015/01/15/gawker-media-merging-gizmodo-and-io9-blogs-into-a-tech-super-hub/ . dead .
  10. Web site: Richard . Mankiewicz . Science 2.0: Eureka's Top 30 Science Blogs . 2010-02-21 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20120714032353/http://www.science20.com/florilegium/blog/timesonline_eureka%E2%80%99s_top_30_science_blogs . 2012-07-14 . 2015-02-19.
  11. Web site: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz: 9780307949424 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books . 2020-10-13 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
  12. Annalee Newitz, 2018, author's own website (online), techsploitation.com; accessed October 20, 2018.
  13. Web site: 'Future Of Another Timeline' Edits The Past To Save The Present . 2020-10-13 . NPR.org . 2019-09-26 . en . Sheehan . Jason .
  14. Web site: 2019-09-27 . 'The Future of Another Timeline' pulses with a daring punk-rock, time-travel tale . 2020-10-13 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  15. Web site: Wolfe . Gary K. . 'The Future of Another Timeline': Annalee Newitz pens resonant novel for current moment . 2020-10-13 . chicagotribune.com . 2019-09-24 .
  16. Web site: Tor.com . 2020-05-29 . Announcing the 2020 Locus Awards Finalists . 2020-10-13 . Tor.com . en-US.
  17. Web site: 2018-03-15 . Episode 1: Hope, dread, and Star Trek: Discovery . December 6, 2020 . our opinions are correct.
  18. Web site: Stubby the Rocket . April 3, 2018 . Listen to Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz's New Podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct . 2020-12-06 . Tor.com.
  19. Web site: 2019 Hugo Awards . 2019-07-28 . World Science Fiction Society . 2019-08-20.
  20. Web site: Annalee . Newitz . Sexual Mutants of the Multiculture: BadPost Issue #33 . September 1997 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120624215122/http://bad.eserver.org/issues/1997/33/newitz.html . June 24, 2012 . February 19, 2015.
  21. Web site: our opinions are correct. January 18, 2021. our opinions are correct. en-US.
  22. News: Interview: Annalee Newitz. May 23, 2005. January 25, 2016. Emily. sfist.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160517001706/http://sfist.com/2005/05/23/interview_annalee_newitz.php. May 17, 2016.
  23. News: Gawker Media merges Gizmodo and io9, names Annalee Newitz editor. January 15, 2015. Sterne, Peter. Politico Media. January 26, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160505140700/http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/01/8560290/gawker-media-merges-gizmodo-and-io9-names-annalee-newitz-editor. May 5, 2016. dead.
  24. News: Report: Women's accounts on Ashley Madison were fake. CBS News. August 28, 2015. Seidman, Bianca. January 25, 2016.
  25. News: Annalee Newitz joins Ars Technica. Ad Week. O'Shea, Chris. November 16, 2015. January 25, 2016.
  26. Web site: Nebula Awards 2018. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180521012536/http://www.sfadb.com/Nebula_Awards_2018. May 21, 2018. May 20, 2018. Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus.
  27. Web site: Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction News and Events. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. July 3, 2019. August 30, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180830202751/http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/campbell-finalists.htm. dead.
  28. Web site: 2018 Locus Awards Winners. locusmag. June 23, 2018. Locus Online. en-US. July 3, 2019.
  29. Web site: sfadb - Annalee Newitz. October 19, 2018. Science Fiction Awards Database.
  30. Web site: Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction News and Events. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. July 4, 2019. June 15, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120615165645/http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/sturgeon-finalists.htm. dead.
  31. Web site: 2019 Hugo Award & 1944 Retro Hugo Award Finalists. Cheryl. April 2, 2019. The Hugo Awards. en-US. July 4, 2019.
  32. Web site: Burning the Man. September 16, 1999. January 25, 2016. Newitz, Annalee. Metro Silicon Valley.
  33. Web site: Bay Guardian Editor Named Knight Science Fellow. June 19, 2002. altweeklies.com. January 25, 2016. AAN Staff.
  34. Web site: My Last Column. July 2, 2008. Newitz, Annalee. AlterNet. January 25, 2016.
  35. News: Spotlight on: Annalee Newitz, Author and Editor. Locus Magazine. January 8, 2014. January 25, 2016.
  36. Web site: Announcing Three New Novels From Annalee Newitz. August 7, 2018 . Tor.com.
  37. News: 'The Terraformers' is a dazzling look at the distant future. Paul. Di Filippo. January 27, 2023. Washington Post.
  38. Web site: Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction News and Events. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. July 3, 2019. June 15, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120615165645/http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/sturgeon-finalists.htm. dead.
  39. Review of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz . Publishers Weekly . September 28, 2020 .
  40. Camille Dodero, 2003, "The New Outcasts," in the Boston Phoenix, November 14–20, 2003 [defunct weekly as of 2013, see {{cite web |url=http://gawker.com/5990638/newspapering-is-a-business-the-death-of-the-legendary-boston-phoenix |title=Newspapering is a Business: The Death of the Legendary Boston Phoenix |access-date=2015-02-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219232910/http://gawker.com/5990638/newspapering-is-a-business-the-death-of-the-legendary-boston-phoenix |archive-date=2015-02-19}}</ref> In 2008, Gawker media asked Newitz to start a blog about science and science fiction, dubbed [[io9]], for which Newitz served as editor-in-chief from its founding until 2015 when it merged with Gizmodo, another Gawker media design and technology blog property; Newitz then took on the same leadership of the new venture.[9] [10] In November 2015, Newitz left Gawker to join Ars Technica, where Newitz has been employed as tech culture editor since December 2015. Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times.[11]

    Newitz's first novel, Autonomous, was published in 2017. Autonomous won the Lambda Award and was nominated for the Nebula Award and Locus Award in 2018 for best novel.

    Newitz's second novel, The Future of Another Timeline, published in 2019, was described on their website as: "[...] about time travel and what it would be like to meet yourself as a teenager and have a really, really intense conversation with her about how fucked up your high school friends are."[12] The book was received with acclaim by critics,[13] [14] [15] and was a Locus Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel.[16] Their 2014 non-fiction science book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. They also wrote Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, published in 2021.

    They have also written for publications including Wired, Popular Science, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and more. They have published short stories in Lightspeed, Shimmer, Apex, and Technology Review's Twelve Tomorrows.

    In March 2018,[17] with their partner and co-host Charlie Jane Anders, Newitz launched the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, which "explor[es] the meaning of science fiction, and how it’s relevant to real-life science and society."[18] The podcast won the Hugo Award for Best Fancast in 2019.[19]

    Personal life

    Newitz is the child of two English teachers. Their mother, Cynthia, worked at a high school, and their father, Marty, at a community college.[20] Since 2000, Newitz has been in a relationship with Charlie Jane Anders. The two began the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct in March 2018.[21]

    Newitz has used singular they pronouns since 2019.

    Venues

    Awards and nominations

    Bibliography

    Newitz's work has been published in Popular Science, Wired, Salon.com, New Scientist, Metro Silicon Valley,[32] the San Francisco Bay Guardian,[33] and at AlterNet.[34] [35] In addition to these print and online periodicals, they have published the following short stories and books:

    Novels

    Short stories

    Non-fiction

    • Book: White Trash: Race and Class in America . Routledge Press . 1997 . 978-1135204495. Co-edited, with Matt Wray
    • Book: The Bad Subjects Anthology . New York University Press . 1998 . 978-0814757925.
    • Book: Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture . Duke University Press . 2006 . 978-0822337454.
    • Book: She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff . Seal Press . 2006 . 978-1580051903. Co-edited with Charlie Anders.
    • Book: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction . Doubleday . 2013 . 978-0385535922.
    • Book: Two Scenarios for the Future of Solar Energy . Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future . William Morrow . 2014 . 978-0062204707. Edited by Kathryn Cramer and Ed Finn.
      • Book: Great Female Scientists in History . Particulates . Dia Art Foundation . 2018. Edited by Nalo Hopkinson.
      • Book: Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age . Norton . 2021 . 978-0393652673. [39]
    • Book: [{{GBurl|id=tyrXEAAAQBAJ}} Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind ]. Norton . 2024 . 978-0393881516 . 1398568649 .

    Further reading

    External links

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