Social Media
Social media has come to occupy a central role in our lives, becoming the primary vehicle for keeping in touch with friends, organizing groups, and getting news. Annenberg scholars evaluate its impact and effects on us and our society, from slacktivism to online harassment to influencers and more.
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Faculty
Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.
Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication
David Elliot Berman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Media, Inequality & Change Center
Man-pui Sally Chan, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Lluís Danús
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Information Networks and Democracy
Deen Freelon, Ph.D.
Presidential Professor
Olivia González, Ph.D.
George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow
Jingyi Gu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Digital Culture and Society
Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.
Presidential Associate Professor
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania
Aviv Landau, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Co-Director, SAFELab
Yphtach Lelkes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication
Yue Li, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication
Siva Mathiyazhagan, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Associate Director, SAFELab
Sandeep Mertia, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication and Center on Digital Culture and Society
Danaë Metaxa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Wazhmah Osman, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk and Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
Desmond Upton Patton, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor
Gavin Ploger, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Polarization Research Lab
Yoel Roth, Ph.D.
Knight Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk
Duncan J. Watts, Ph.D.
Stevens University Professor
Guobin Yang, Ph.D.
Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology
