Technology and Communication Social Science Experts in Institutions and Policies: Technology and Communication Heading link Copy link Dr. Eulàlia Puig Abril | Communication persuasion, campaigns, and social media with topics in the areas of health and political communication Dr. Tanja Aitamurto | Communication new media technologies on people's behavior and society, digital journalism, democracy methods: new media technologies in empirical contexts Dr. Samuel Hardman Taylor | Communication uses and effects of mobile phones and social media, with a focus on interpersonal communication and relationships methods: social media analytics, which combine computational data with traditional experimental and survey studies Dr. Steve Jones | Communication Internet’s social and commercial uses, and social changes in the Internet age Dr. Rebecca Lind | Communication audience studies, race and gender, new media, and media ethics Dr. Elena Maris | Communication interactions and tensions between media/tech industries and their users or audiences Dr. Zachary McDowell | Communication access and advocacy in digitally mediated peer production spaces methods: engaged, community-based, and transformative practices Dr. Sharon Meraz | Communication interplay of political communication, networked journalism, and mass media theory, social media technologies, political publics methods: social network analysis, automated content analysis, natural language processing, social network visualization Dr. Zizi Papacharissi | Communication social and political consequences of online media Dr. Andrew Rojecki | Communication political movements, racial politics, and globalization methods: natural language processing approach to textual analysis Dr. Cindy Tekobbe | Communication the digital lives, identities, and activism practices of traditionally underserved and erased peoples and communities Dr. Mariah Wellman | Communication technology, influence, and wellness; how popular users within digital wellness communities build credibility with audiences Dr. Elaine Yuan | Communication how new and emerging forms of communication mediate various social institutions and cultural practices Dr. Petia Kostadinova | Political Science comparative politics, European Union, East Europe Dr. Susan Goldman | Psychology subject matter learning, instruction, assessment, and on roles for technology, especially in literacy and mathematics Dr. Paul-Brian McInerney | Sociology economic and organizational sociology, sociology of technology, social movements Dr. Atef Said | Sociology politics, revolutions, and social change, spatio-temporalities of revolution methods: ethnographic and historical data assessment