Author: Jennifer Hessler / Bucknell University

Jennifer Hessler is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Film/Media Studies program at Bucknell University. She received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is currently working on a book titled, “Television Ratings: From the Audimeter to Big Data,” which examines television ratings technologies and methods as precursory models of data-driven consumer surveillance. She has published work in Television & New Media, The Velvet Light Trap, and Media Fields.