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Leah A. Lievrouw is Professor of Information Studies at UCLA, and the 2006 - 07 Fellow of the Sudikoff Family Institute for Education & New Media. She studies the social and cultural consequences of media and information technologies, information society issues, and the role of communication technologies in social change. Her work addresses issues of intellectual freedom, privacy, and access, and advances a greater understanding of the transformational effect of new technologies within a social context.