Rate My Professor Bryce Newell

Bryce Newell is The David and Nancy Petrone Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, where he also serves as Faculty Director of the SOJC Honors Program. He earned a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington in 2015, an M.S. in Information Science from the same institution in 2013, a J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 2010, a B.S. in Multimedia Communication Technology from Utah Valley State College in 2006, and an A.A.S. in the same field from Utah Valley State College. Newell joined the University of Oregon in 2019 as Assistant Professor of Media Law and Policy, following positions as Assistant Professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky from 2017 to 2019 and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society at Tilburg University from 2015 to 2017. He has held senior researcher appointments at Tilburg University Law School in 2018, 2019, 2024, and 2025, and at Utrecht University School of Law from 2022 to 2023. In 2026, he is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Communication. Earlier in his career, Newell was a Google Policy Fellow at the University of Ottawa in 2013 and worked in film and videography production.

Newell's scholarship centers on law, technology, and society; surveillance studies; information studies; privacy and data protection law; cybercrime; policing; criminal procedure; and immigration. He is Co-Director of the Surveillance Studies Network and Dialogue Editor for Surveillance & Society since 2019. His monograph Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras was published by University of California Press in 2021 and received the Surveillance Studies Network's 2022 Book Award. He edited Police on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability (Routledge, 2021), co-edited Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space (Routledge, 2019) and Privacy in Public Space: Conceptual and Regulatory Challenges (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017), and has authored more than 45 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference papers in outlets including New Media & Society, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Surveillance & Society, Hastings Law Journal, and North Carolina Law Review. His research on police body-worn cameras, bystander recording, migrant surveillance, and data privacy regulation has been discussed on NPR's All Things Considered, cited in the New York Times Magazine, and featured in Slate. Newell has guest-edited special issues for Law & Social Inquiry and Surveillance & Society and maintains interests in documentary filmmaking, with works exhibited in museums and screened at festivals.