Programs › Philadelphia, PA
Studies how communication and persuasion shape attitudes, beliefs, and behavior, and designs interventions that promote health, science understanding, and beneficial policy.
Critically analyzes gender, race, and consumer culture in popular media, examining popular feminism and misogyny, brand culture, and the politics of believability.
Studies how behaviors and innovations spread through social networks, using network analysis and agent-based modeling to explain collective intelligence and behavior change.
Uses neuroscience and psychology to study what makes messages persuasive, how ideas spread, and how communication can drive health and climate behavior change.
Studies digital politics and the politics of race, gender, and ideology on social media, using computational methods and building open-source research software.
Studies how online communication networks and algorithmic curation shape exposure to news and political information, using network analysis and computational social science.
Develops political theory on democracy, deliberation, and compromise, with work on democratic education, bioethics, identity politics, and ethics in public affairs.
Develops and tests theory-based health behavior change interventions that reduce sexual risk behavior and health disparities among underserved populations.
Combines ethnography and filmmaking to study race, visual culture, Black religious media, and diasporic religious communities.
Uses rhetorical analysis, surveys, and experiments to study campaign communication, the science of science communication, and ways to counter misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Studies affective polarization, political belief systems, and how changes in the information environment shape political attitudes, using surveys, experiments, and quasi-experiments.
Studies public opinion and the causes and consequences of political polarization in the U.S., including partisan media effects and ways to bridge the partisan divide.
Studies political communication, political psychology, and how the American mass public forms opinions on issues, candidates, and globalization.
Studies how social media relates to violence, trauma, grief, and mental health among youth of color, combining data science, qualitative methods, and community partnerships.
Studies media policy, political economy, media history, and journalism's democratic role, using historical and policy analysis of media reform and internet governance.
Takes cultural and historical approaches to media industries, audiences, and identity politics in South Asia and the South Asian diaspora in the U.S. and U.K.
Uses web-based experiments and large-scale digital data to study social and organizational networks, collective dynamics, and the production and consumption of news.
Takes historical and cultural approaches to social movements, digital activism, and the politics of emotion and storytelling, with a focus on contemporary China.
Studies how Black, feminist, and activist publics use and are represented in media, journalism, and digital networks, from hashtag activism to histories of Black mediamakers.
Uses qualitative and interpretive methods to study digital culture, how marginalized groups appropriate technology, the politics of infrastructure, and technological activism.
Studies daily fluctuations in brain, behavior, and media environments to understand curiosity, emotion dynamics, and substance use, using fMRI, experience sampling, and network analysis.
Studies marketing, media, and message effects on tobacco and cancer disparities, designing culturally tailored interventions with LGBT and underserved communities through mixed methods.
Critically analyzes borders, migration, and Latin American and Latinx digital and screen media, drawing on media theory, infrastructure studies, and film and television analysis.
Uses qualitative methods to examine how phones, platforms, and management systems shape precarious low-wage work and inequalities of gender, race, and class.