Nancy Baym

• 1994, Ph.D., speech communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• 1988, M.A., speech communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• 1986, B.A., journalism and mass communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Baym joined Microsoft Research in 2012, when Microsoft established a new group researching social media, with scholars including danah Boyd, Mary Gray and Kate Crawford in addition to Baym. Describing the new group, The Boston Globe wrote that the scholars were "trained in media studies and social sciences but had essentially become anthropologists of the digital age".{{Cite news |last=Farrell |first=Michael B. |date=2012-07-28 |title=Social media suddenly a hot scholarly pursuit |work=The Boston Globe}}

• 2012–present, principal researcher, Microsoft Research.{{Cite web|title=Nancy Baym - Senior Principal Researcher|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/baym/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218161136/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/baym/|archive-date=2021-02-18|access-date=2021-04-09|website=Microsoft}}
• 2002–2012, professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas.
• 1999-2002, assistant professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas.
• 1994-1999, assistant professor, Department of Communication, Wayne State University.
• 1992-1994, visiting teaching associate in speech communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• 1986-1992, teaching assistant in speech communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Baym has published several monographs, besides numerous articles.

In Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community (2000), Baym argues that soap opera fans form "a dynamic community of people with unique voices, distinctive traditions, and enjoyable relationships."{{Cite web|last=Bruns|first=Axel|date=2012-03-01|title=M/C Reviews: Analysing r.a.t.s.: Nancy K. Baym's 'Tune In, Log On'|url=http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/words/rats-c.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301230044/http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/words/rats-c.html|archive-date=2012-03-01|access-date=2021-04-09|website=reviews.media-culture.org.au}}

Personal Connections in the Digital Age (2010),{{Cite book|last=Bayn|first=Nancy|title=Personal Connections in the Digital Age|publisher=Polity Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-7456-4331-1|location=Cambridge (UK)}} is about thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships, it offers data-grounded information on how to makes sense of these changes in relational life. She defines seven concepts "that can be used to differentiate digital media and which influence how people use them and with what effects." These concepts are interactivity, temporal structure, social cues, storage, replicability, reach and mobility. Ultimately, "the author states at the end that the book was written for those who see communication technologies as new and different, those who take them for granted and those who will be thinking through technologies not yet invented," claimed Stuart James Fitz-Gerald in his review of the book.{{cite journal|last1=Fitz-Gerald|first1=Stuart James|last2=Wiggins|first2=Bob|year=2011|title=Review of Personal Connections in the Digital Age by Nancy Baym|journal=International Journal of Information Management|volume=31|issue=2|pages=189–90|doi=10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2010.11.002}}

Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection{{Cite book |last=Baym |first=Nancy K. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1035390178 |title=Playing to the crowd : musicians, audiences, and the intimate work of connection |date=2018 |isbn=978-1-4798-1535-7 |location=New York |oclc=1035390178}} was published in 2018, and explores how digital technology has changed the relationship between musicians and their fans.{{Cite journal |last=Lingel |first=Jessa |date=April 2020 |title=A Conversation with Nancy Baym, Author of Playing to the Crowd |journal=Social Media + Society |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=205630511989900 |doi=10.1177/2056305119899008 |s2cid=216226351 |issn=2056-3051|doi-access=free }} When an excerpt was published in Wired, the book was described as showing "how music lovers used fan culture to build a worldwide web".{{Cite magazine |last=Baym |first=Nancy |title=Book Excerpt: How Music Fans Built the Internet |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-playing-to-the-crowd/ |access-date=2023-01-22 |issn=1059-1028}} The book was reviewed by scholarly journals both in media studies{{Cite journal |last=Dhaenens |first=Frederik |date=November 2019|title=Book Review: Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy K. Baym |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1527476419839109 |journal=Television & New Media |language=en |volume=20 |issue=7 |pages=739–741 |doi=10.1177/1527476419839109 |s2cid=150779076 |issn=1527-4764|url-access=subscription }} and musicology.{{Cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Tim J. |date=2020-03-01 |title=Review: Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy Baym |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article/32/1/140/109155/Review-Playing-to-the-Crowd-Musicians-Audiences |journal=Journal of Popular Music Studies |language=en |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=140–142 |doi=10.1525/jpms.2020.32.1.140|s2cid=213571388 |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Young |first=Toby |date=June 2019 |title=Nancy K. Baym, Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection (New York: New York University Press, 2018), ISBN 978-1-479-89616-5 (hb), 978-1-47982-158-7 (pb). - David Grubbs, Now That the Audience is Assembled (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), ISBN 978-0-822-37138-0 (hb), 978-0-822-37147-2 (pb). |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1478572219000239/type/journal_article |journal=Twentieth-Century Music |language=en |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=363–369 |doi=10.1017/S1478572219000239 |issn=1478-5722|url-access=subscription }} One reviewer noted that while the book could have emphasised more diverse genres, such as hip hop, it was "a valuable resource for those trying to better understand relational labor conducted by artists".{{Cite journal |last=Arrieta |first=Alexandria |date=2020 |title=Book review: Nancy K. Baym, Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection |location=New York|publisher= New York University Press |url=https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15935/3179 |journal=International Journal of Communication |volume=14}} Perhaps in response to this criticism, Baym co-authored an article on hip-hop in 2022 with Jahari M. Evans.{{Cite journal |last1=Evans |first1=Jabari M. |last2=Baym |first2=Nancy K. |date=2022-05-13 |title=The Audacity of Clout (Chasing): Digital Strategies of Black Youth in Chicago DIY Hip-Hop |url=https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18433 |journal=International Journal of Communication |language=en |volume=16 |pages=19 |issn=1932-8036}}

• Excellence in Teaching Award (College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts, Wayne State University, 1997){{Cite web|title=W. T. Kemper Fellowship Teaching Excellence (2005)|url=http://www2.ku.edu/~coms/awards/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208044027/http://www2.ku.edu/~coms/awards/|archive-date=2006-12-08|access-date=2021-04-09|website=ku.edu}}
• W. T. Kemper Fellowship Teaching Excellence (Kansas University, 2005){{Cite web|date=2005-08-20|title=More Kemper Awards handed out at KU|url=https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/aug/20/more_kemper_awards_handed_out_ku/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409231909/https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/aug/20/more_kemper_awards_handed_out_ku/|archive-date=2021-04-09|access-date=2021-04-09|website=LJWorld.com|language=en-US}}

• {{Citation

| last= Baym | first=Nancy K.

| year=2000

| title= Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community

| publisher=Sage

| isbn= 0-7619-1649-0

| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XKmwYKs6_1sC

}}

• {{Citation

| last= Baym | first=Nancy K.

| year=2006

| chapter= From Practice to Culture on Usenet

| title= Handbook of New Media: Student Edition

| pages= 29–32

| isbn= 1-4129-1873-1

}}

• {{Citation

| last=Baym

| first=Nancy K.

| year=2006

| chapter=The Emergence of On-line Community

| title=S. Jones (Ed.) Cybersociety: communication and community

| publisher=Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

| pages=[https://archive.org/details/cybersociety20re0000unse/page/35 35–68]

| isbn=0-7619-1462-5

| chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/cybersociety20re0000unse/page/35

}}

• {{Citation

| last= Baym | first=Nancy K.

| year=2010

| title= Personal Connections in the Digital Age

| publisher=Polity

| isbn= 978-0-7456-4332-8

| url= http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745643311

}}

• {{Citation

| last= Baym | first=Nancy K.

| year=2018

| title= Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection

| publisher=NYU Press

| isbn= 9781479821587

| url= https://nyupress.org/books/9781479821587/

}}

• {{Citation

| last1= Burgess | first1=Jean

| year=2020

| title= Twitter: A Biography

| publisher=NYU Press

| isbn= 9781479811069

| url= https://nyupress.org/9781479811069/twitter/

|first2=Nancy K.|last2=Baym}}

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