Speaker Bios

She is the author of the book Decoding the Social World (MIT, 2017) and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication (OUP, 2020). During the academic year 2019-2020 she is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

He is lead researcher and co-author of the main Digital News Report – the world’s largest annual survey of global news consumption.

Her research focuses mainly on the development of media effects theories, emerging media and democracy, and computational social science methodologies. Dr. Guo’s research has been published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Communication, Communication Research, and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Her co-edited book The Power of Information Networks: New Directions for Agenda Setting (2015) introduces a new theoretical perspective to understand media effects in this emerging media landscape.

His work focuses on political communication and the effects of digital technology on politics. He also examines the use of digital trace data in the social sciences. He is the author of Analyzing political communication with digital trace data: The role of Twitter messages in social science research (Springer: 2015) and Retooling politics: How digital media is shaping democracy (with Gonzalo Rivero and Daniel Gayo-Avello, Cambridge University Press: 2020).

His research examines the spread of political information through digital media using computational social scientific methods. Dr. Kearney teaches graduate courses in mass media theory, research methods, social media analytics, network analysis, and data science.

Her research addresses the role of social media and their data in political processes, with a focus on political communication, journalism, public opinion, and gender. McGregor’s published work examines how three groups – political actors, the press, and the public – use social media in regards to politics, how that social media use impacts their behavior, and how the policies and actions of social media companies in turn impacts political communication on their platforms.

She researches the social, political, and cultural implications of popular social media technologies. Her research currently focuses on disinformation and privacy. Marwick is the author of Media Manipulation & Disinformation Online (Data & Society 2017), Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age (Yale 2013), and co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Social Media (2017).

Author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (University of Chicago Press). She received her PhD in Political Psychology from Stony Brook University and her BA in Politics from Princeton University. Her research on partisan identity, partisan bias, social sorting, and American social polarization has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior, and featured in media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Her research focuses on how members of the American public think and talk about politics, policy, and work. Her books include Making Sense of Public Opinion: American Discourses about Immigration and Social Programs (Cambridge 2012), A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning (co-authored with Naomi Quinn, Cambridge 1997), and Political Sentiments and Social Movements: The Person in Politics and Culture (co-edited with Jack Friedman, Palgrave 2018). Her work on discourse analysis includes “Analyzing discourse for cultural complexity” (In Finding Culture in Talk: A Collection of Methods, Naomi Quinn, ed. NY: Palgrave 2005).

His work explores media and democracy in the hybrid media system, including how media flows combine to create the depictions of politics that citizens experience. He is the author of The Civic Organization and the Digital Citizen (Oxford University Press, 2015), and recipient of the Young Scholar Award from the International Communication Association (ICA, 2018).