Programs › Ann Arbor, MI
Studies incidental media effects, including cultivation of beliefs about violence, policing and medicine, and the health effects of media use on sleep, eating and exercise.
Studies how stories and identification with characters change beliefs and behavior, applying social-cognitive media effects research to health, stereotyping and development.
Writes critical histories of American media and gender, from early broadcasting and radio to celebrity, motherhood myths and representations of women.
Studies strategic communication about environmental, science and risk issues, examining how media and messages can engage publics and bridge ideological divides.
Studies attention to political news, political expression and partisan polarization in American politics, as well as how journalists cover polarization and democracy.
Studies how new media and psychological processes shape public opinion and voting in US elections, and develops survey methods to reduce measurement error.
Examines consumer and promotional culture, including trend forecasting, branding and popular music criticism, through critical cultural and historical analysis.
Writes histories of radio broadcasting in the US and France, sound studies and American popular music, including the gendered and racialized formation of US broadcasting.
Studies mobile and social media use among marginalized groups in China, especially rural and migrant women, through intersectional feminist and critical technology lenses.
Studies how emotion and partisan media shape political misperceptions, news use and digital media behavior, as well as online sports betting.
Studies web history, software, AI and visual culture, historicizing big data systems alongside time-travel media through historical and critical-interpretive analysis.
Analyzes the cultural politics of television, cinema and social media around sexuality, affect and urban space using archival research, fieldwork and close reading.
Studies how people, place and digital media intersect, including smart cities, digital placemaking, neighborhood social media and inequities of digital infrastructure.
Uses quantitative methods to study how media choices and social media influencers shape knowledge, trust and engagement with science, journalism and politics.
Studies how audiences process science, health and risk messages and AI-generated or manipulated visuals, combining experiments with analysis of social media content.
Studies campaign communication, social influence and news coverage of expertise and polarization in American politics, often using experiments.
Studies race and gender in digital spaces and algorithmic technocultures, including sexual racism in online dating, reparative technology and human-AI intimacy.
Examines how race and gender shape people's interactions with communication technologies, self-presentation and body image, mainly through quantitative experiments.
Studies how social and mobile media affordances interact with cultural and relational norms, including credibility judgments in private messaging spaces in understudied contexts.
Uses qualitative methods to study work in media and tech industries, especially social media creators, influencers, journalists and subscription platforms like Substack.