Programs › Los Angeles, CA
Studies how globalization, violence and new media technologies reshape citizenship and publicness, through critical analysis of Latinx and Latin American media, immigration and narcoculture.
Analyzes international communication policy, global governance of digital disruption and telecommunications trade negotiations from a political-economy perspective.
Studies the social and economic impacts of information technologies, telecom policy and technology appropriation via participatory co-design and community partnerships, from Skid Row to East Africa.
Theorizes the network society, globalization and internet-era politics, with recent books on the crisis of liberal democracy, Europe's crises and the new Latin America.
Writes histories of American politics, law and media, from the birth of the presidential primary to battles over sex and violence on television, and leads communication leadership and policy programs.
Studies public diplomacy and the historical role of mass communication in foreign policy as a historian, and advises foreign ministries on cultural diplomacy.
Conducts interpretive ethnographies of the politics of technology, from activism in open technology and FM radio communities to toxic infrastructure in the ports of Los Angeles.
Develops network science and machine learning methods to study socio-technical systems, online social networks, collaboration and crowds, and their effects on human behavior and society.
Explores Black and Afro-diasporic political and popular cultures through intellectual history and media analysis, from Cold War China in the Black radical imagination to Los Angeles community arts.
Uses surveys, field experiments and other quantitative methods to study Internet policy, broadband adoption and digital inequality, including links between connectivity and poverty in Latin America.
Investigates discourses of race, identity and politics across Europe, Africa and America as a journalist, columnist, author and documentary producer.
Analyzes argumentation, political campaign communication, media diplomacy and how media narratives shape public opinion in international disputes, using rhetorical criticism.
Studies how groups share expertise and knowledge and how group communication relates to performance and wellbeing in work, online and hybrid teams, including incivility and human-machine teaming.
Studies participatory culture, fandom and civic media, examining how everyday people learn, create and advocate through popular culture using cultural analysis and case studies.
Develops netnography and other qualitative social media methods to understand digital culture, influencers, branding and consumer communities for marketing and communication research.
Works as a cultural historian, critic and curator on popular music, archives, global migration and Los Angeles, producing books, exhibitions and public humanities projects.
Develops and tests game-based, intelligent-agent and virtual-environment interventions to reduce health risks such as HIV, using experiments, computational modeling and neuroscience.
Studies how narratives and entertainment-education change health-related beliefs and behaviors, using experiments on identification and transportation plus community-based campaigns.
Traces how media technologies, from silent film to code and AI, reshape legal understandings of speech and personhood, using historical and textual analysis of law, media coverage and public feeling.
Documents and analyzes the image of the journalist in film, television and popular culture, building the IJPC database and historical studies from silent film to Hallmark movies.
Produces long-form narrative journalism, books, radio documentaries and podcasts on land conflicts, identity, natural resources and the global economy, reporting from dozens of countries.
Studies the social and economic impacts of games and online communities, including social value and influence, using experiments, longitudinal surveys, machine learning and content analysis.
Studies religion's entanglement with news and entertainment media in American history and politics, using historical and textual analysis of television, press coverage and presidential media strategy.
Traces how journalism's sociotechnical systems, platforms, algorithms and AI shape public life, combining science and technology studies with normative theory of press freedom.
Examines how ideologies of race, gender, class and nationalism are reproduced and resisted through sport and mass media in postcolonial societies, using critical cultural sociology.
Studies global and Chinese creator industries, social media entertainment and streaming platforms through political economy, production and creator studies.
Reports and writes on U.S. Latinos, immigration, borders and the politics of belonging through investigative journalism, opinion commentary and narrative nonfiction.
Uses quantitative methods to study how storytelling, influencers and AI-driven platforms shape audience responses to advertising, branding and prosocial messaging.
Teaches and practices media law, media history and media ethics, drawing on decades of representing media clients in the American courts.
Uses ethnography and other qualitative methods to study how data analytics, metrics and algorithms transform journalism, creative labor and power in media industries.
Studies how African Americans and other marginalized communities use smartphones and social media to produce protest journalism in times of crisis, through interviews and archival work on Black media.
Studies organizational communication, institutional politics and culture change, including how communication infrastructure and information technologies shape knowledge management and transformation.
Runs large-scale content analyses of top-grossing films, television and popular music to document inequality by gender, race, LGBTQ+ status and disability in Hollywood and drive industry change.
Combines digital epidemiology of social media data with community-engaged research to understand and improve sexual, mental and substance-use health among Black and Latinx youth in the US.
Examines the intersection of technology and culture, from hacker subcultures and cybercrime to video game culture and how games transform learning and education.
Studies the cultural politics of science and medicine at the intersection of race and state violence, through critical and historical analysis of visual culture such as postwar US prison experiments.
Studies strategic communication and public diplomacy in a globalizing world, including nation branding, soft power, digital advocacy and the evaluation of public diplomacy programs.
Applies social network analysis to strategic communication, studying how NGOs, corporations and governments form issue-advocacy alliances, transnational civil networks and public diplomacy ties.
Combines social network analysis and computational methods with a critical lens to understand and address health inequities in sexual, gender and racial minority communities.
Studies human-AI interaction and how AI reshapes work in teamwork, content production and mental healthcare, using behavioral experiments, computational content analysis and qualitative methods.
Uses social network analysis and computational methods to study how teams, online communities and organizations form and collaborate on digital platforms.