David Trend is the author of over 120 articles and essays in such periodicals as Art in America, Cultural Studies, and Social Identities, among others. Trend is the former editor of the journals Afterimage and Socialist Review. Named as a Getty Scholar for his research, Trend's books include Cultural Pedagogy: Art/Education/Politics (Bergin and Garvey, 1992), The Crisis of Meaning in Culture and Education (University of Minnesota Press, 1995), Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship, and the State (Routledge, 1996), Cultural Democracy: Politics, Media, New Technology (State University of New York Press, 1997), Reading Digital Culture (Blackwell, 2001), Welcome to Cyberschool: Education at the Crossroads in the Information Age (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), The Myth of Media Violence (Blackwell, 2007), Everyday People: Finding and Making Meaning in a Changing World (Routledge/Paradigm, 2007), A Culture Divided: America's Struggle for Unity (Routledge/Paradigm, 2009), The End of Reading: From Gutenberg to Grand Theft Auto (Peter Lang, 2010), Worlding: Identity, Imagination, and Reality in a Digital Age Routledge/Paradigm, 2013), Elsewhere in America: The Crisis of Belonging in Contemporary Culture (Routledge, 2016), and Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails (Routledge, 2020).