Gabriel Rossman
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
PhD, Princeton University
Office: 287 HAINES HALL
Phone: 3102068904
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
rossman@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Culture, Economic Sociology
Research Interests
At a substantive level my research addresses culture and mass media, especially pop music radio.
At a theoretical and methodological level I am most interested in understanding diffusion processes, particularly through approaches that aggregate information across many innovations rather than treating them one at a time. For instance, I am currently researching how reggaeton got popular and how this genre change differs from the more routine innovation of a particular conventional pop song becoming popular.
Selected Publications
"The Diffusion of the Legitimate and the Diffusion of Legitimacy" 2009. CCPR Working Paper.
"I'd Like to Thank the Academy, Team Spillovers, and Network Centrality." (with Nicole Esparza and Phil Bonacich). 2010. American Sociological Review.
"Modeling Diffusion of Multiple Innovations via Multilevel Diffusion Curves" (with Ming Ming Chiu and Joeri Mol). 2008. Sociological Methodology.
“Elites, Masses, and Media Blacklists: The Dixie Chicks Controversy” Social Forces September 2004, 83: 61-78.
Grants
National Science Foundation. (SES-0724914). "Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation: Drawing Lessons from the Radio Industry."
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