Programs › Ithaca, NY
Studies how people use social media affordances and designs and evaluates interventions for online privacy, safety, digital and AI literacy, and prosocial behavior among youth and vulnerable groups.
Studies how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technology, using ethnography of data infrastructures such as the US Census, networked teens, and algorithmic accountability.
Studies social media and creative industries, gender and inequality, and digital labor, using qualitative research with bloggers, YouTubers, and Instagram creators.
Studies computer-mediated communication and collaboration, including effects of culture and native language, virtual teams, and human-robot interaction, and builds tools such as energy-saving and telepresence systems.
Studies the social uses of mobile and social media in everyday life, including privacy and surveillance in location-based services, using qualitative field and historical methods.
Studies the history and models of public communication of science and technology, using historical case studies and evaluation of citizen science and informal science education.
Studies communication about scientific, technological, and environmental risks, including One Health messaging and public acceptance of new energy technologies, through community-engaged research.
Studies communication and decision making in task-oriented and virtual groups, social influence, minority influence, and intergroup dynamics, including interagency coordination in social services.
Studies the content and effects of mass media campaigns, strategic messages, and news coverage on health behavior and social policy, aiming to advance health equity.
Studies the social psychology of public opinion on environment, health, and US politics, examining message framing, social identity, and food labeling.
Studies gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ media across television, audiences, consumer culture, and globalization, using critical cultural analysis, audience research, and documentary production.
Studies organizational and intercultural communication, including knowledge management, expertise sharing, and social networks, and US-China differences in climate and health information behavior.
Studies how social contexts and identities shape motivation and goal pursuit, and how interventions and policies can reduce disparities in education, health, and the environment.
Studies how accountability, credibility, and social networks shape online discourse and misinformation, using computational analysis of large-scale observational data and natural experiments.
Studies how algorithms and platform governance shape group behavior online, running large-scale field experiments with online communities, platforms, and news organizations.
Studies misinformation, verification, and user-generated content in the information ecosystem, co-designing interventions with communities to meet information needs and build resilience.
Studies how immersive mediated experiences change perception, including virtual reality avatars, nonverbal behavior and synchrony in collaboration, and clinical uses of VR.
Studies how societies communicate, interpret, and govern environmental, technological, and health risks, focusing on risk perception, trust, uncertainty, and public engagement.
Studies interpersonal and family communication among migrants affected by US immigration detention and how anti-migrant messages affect their health, using interviews and longitudinal surveys.
Studies decolonization, African feminisms, indigenous language media, and social movements in Ghana and the diaspora, using critical-historical and community-engaged activist scholarship.
Studies how communication ecologies reproduce poverty and shape political identity, using immersive ethnography and participant observation in rural and urban poor communities.