She received her MA and PhD from the Media & Cultural Studies program in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin –Madison. She has experience working within a variety of media industries including magazine, TV, and video production. Before coming to KU, Germaine spent a summer with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England working on projects related to location-based social media and mobile media. She currently teaches classes about digital media and society; digital storytelling; qualitative methods for digital media research; media, space, and place; and television studies.