Current Members
Prof. Bruce Bimber
Digital media in collective action; belief in conspiracies and falsehoods; social media and democratic backsliding
Daniel Cervantes
Elites and the flow of political falsehoods
Pierce Christoffersen
News & digital media, public policy, technology & metrics
Prof. Dan Lane
Social media and political engagement, intergroup relations, political inequality
Sterling Lankford
Public opinion, selective exposure, and falsehoods
Prof. Guadalupe (Lupita) Madrigal
Media, Latinx/a/o populations, race, information, social identity, and immigration
Hannah Overbye-Thompson
Media effects, algorithm bias, human-computer interaction, and marginalized groups
Prof. Prateekshit "Kanu" Pandey
Humor and satire in democratic participation, news sharing, and individual political agency
Yifei Wang
Social identity in social media
Recent Alumni
- Dr. Nancy Molina-Rogers UCLA
- Prof. Julien Labarre CSU Dominguez Hills
- Tara Mandrekar Ourmedia.org
- Prof. Daniel Gomez New Mexico State University
- Dr. Shanshan Lu
- Ilia Nikiforov Independent Consultant
- Dr. Rajkamal Singh New York University