COMM.STANFORD.EDU - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Director, Center for Deliberative Democracy
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- Student in Communication, Admitted Autumn 2019 / Master of Arts Student in Communication, Admitted Autumn 2021
Lee is interested in understanding the impact of media and technology on users' health and well-being by studying psychological processes such as mindsets, particularly in the context of adolescent and parent-child relationships.
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- Assistant Professor
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor in the Department of Communication
- Associate Professor of Communication and of Sociology
Angèle Christin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, the Faculty Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab, and a Richard E. Guggenhime Faculty Scholar at Stanford University. She studies fields and organizations where algorithms and analytics transform professional values, expertise, and work practices.
Education
PhD, Princeton University, Sociology (2014)
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- Researcher at the Virtual Human Interaction Lab
Anna Queiroz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, in charge of educational projects investigating the cognitive and affective implications of new media and technology in learning, attitude, and behavior change. As part of the Transforming Learning Accelerator, she is investigating new media applications focused on the future of work and education. She holds a postdoc in Education from GSE at Stanford, a Ph.D. and an M.S in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Sao Paulo, a Behavioral Medicine degree from the Federal University of Sao Paulo, and a certificate in Education from Harvard University.
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- Lab Manager, VHIL
- Research and Technical
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- Director, Graduate Program in Coterminal Media Studies
Byron Reeves, PhD, is the Paul C. Edwards Professor of Communication at Stanford and
Professor (by courtesy) in the Stanford School of Education. Byron has a long history of
is a master's student pursuing a degree along the Media Studies track. She graduated from undergrad with a degree in Human Biology and hopes to pursue a career in sports media. Caitie is also on the women's volleyball team and is interested in the medias impact on mental health and relationships.
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- Student in Communication, Admitted Autumn 2020
Burke is interested in user experience design, design ethics, and human-computer interaction.
Cameron Adams is a coterm student pursuing a Bachelors's in Political Science - with minors in French Language and Data Science - and a Master's in Digital Media Communication Studies. In their free time, Cameron enjoys watching movies, going to parks, and traveling to new places!
Camryn Pak is a master's student at Stanford University, where she recently completed her bachelor's degree in American Studies with an emphasis in inequality and the law. Her professional experiences range from reporting gigs at the San Francisco Chronicle and the Orange County Register to working on federal voting rights litigation at the U.S. Department of Justice. Most recently, she spearheaded a data-driven investigative reporting project at Big Local News. While she was an undergraduate, Camryn served as a two-time news managing editor for The Stanford Daily. Her academic interests are primarily rooted in understanding how the media industry impacts civic engagement.
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- Student in Communication, Admitted Autumn 2018
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- Lecturer
- Hearst Professional in Residence / Director, Big Local News
Cheryl Phillips has been teaching journalism at Stanford since 2014. Most recently, she founded Big Local News. She also is co-founder of the Stanford Open Policing Project, a cross-departmental effort to collect police interaction data and evaluate racial disparities. And she is a founding member of the California Civic Data Coalition, an effort to make California campaign finance data accessible.
Previously, Phillips worked at The Seattle Times for 12 years in a variety of reporting and editing roles with the investigations team and across the newsroom. In 2014, she was involved in coverage of a landslide that killed 43 people, which received a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. In 2009, she was the lone editor in the newsroom when four police officers were shot at a coffee shop and was integrally involved in the subsequent coverage, which received a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. She has twice been on teams that were Pulitzer finalists.
Phillips has worked at USA Today and at newspapers in Michigan, Montana and Texas. She served for 10 years on the board of Investigative Reporters and Editors and is a former board president. Twitter: @cephillips
Chloe Chow is a Media Studies student interested in exploring the intersection of journalism, performance, and archival work in her research of documentary theater and Asian American theater history. She received her B.A.H. in Theater & Performance Studies with a dual minor in Asian American Studies and Communication in 2023 while serving as the Artistic Director of the Asian American Theater Project for two years. She is invested in the education and growth of the Asian American theater community and seeks to generate performance art that empowers collective liberation and creation without borders. Her projects challenge the definition of theater through site specificity, digital media, and deconstruction of space.
Decatur focuses on the cognitive impacts of social media, social networks, language, and jargon online.
DeVeaux is interested in augmented and virtual reality, human-computer interaction, and human-centered design.
Job Titles:
- Professor, Emeritus
- Thomas More Storke Professor, Emeritus
Donald Roberts received his A.B. from Columbia University (1961) and his M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley (1963). He earned his Ph.D. in communication at Stanford in 1968, then became a member of the department faculty, serving as Director of the Institute for Communication Research from 1985-1990 and from 1999-2001. He chaired the department from 1990-1996.
Roberts teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on communication theory and research and on children, youth, and media. His primary area of research concerns how children and adolescents use and respond to media, a topic on which he has written extensively (e.g., chapters in The Handbook of Communication, Learning from Television: Psychological and Education Research, The International Encyclopedia of Communications, The Handbook of Children and the Media,and The Handbook of Adolescent Psychology).
He has also written comprehensive reviews of the literature on the effects of mass communication for the Annual Review of Psychology and for the revised edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology, and co-authored a chapter on public opinion processes in the Handbook of Communication Science.
Roberts helped to design a parental advisory system to label violence, sex/nudity, and language for the computer software industry which has been adapted by the Internet Content Rating Association for use on the World Wide Web. He has spoken on the issue of content labeling and advisories internationally (e.g., Mexico, Korea, Australia, South Africa), and has published several articles dealing with content labeling.
He has consulted with a number of companies involved in producing children's media (e.g., Filmation, ABC-Disney, MGM Animation, Sunbow Entertainment, Nelvana Ltd., and KidsWB!), and currently functions as Educational Director for DIC Entertainment, helping to develop content to meet the FCC's requirements for educational programming for children. Roberts also served on the board of advisors of MediaScope, a nonprofit organization founded to promote constructive depictions of social issues in film, television, music, and video games, and was a planner and panelist for Vice President Al Gore's Conference on Families and Media.
Roberts is co-editor of The Process and Effects of Mass Communication and co-author of Television and Human Behavior, It's Not Only Rock and Roll: Popular Music in the Lives of Adolescents and Kids on Media in America: Patterns of Use at the Millennium.
Han is interested in understanding how virtual reality environments and the embodiment of digital identities transform cognitive processes. Zhenchau Hu zhenchao@stanford.edu CV Zhenchao is interested in (intensive) longitudinal methods, social media uses and effects, interpersonal relationships, children and adolescents' identity development, sexuality, and well-being.
Han is interested in understanding how virtual reality environments and the embodiment of digital identities transform cognitive processes. More
Job Titles:
- Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor of Communication
Gabriella Harari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, where she directs the Media and Personality Lab.
She studies how personality is expressed in the physical and digital contexts of everyday life. Much of her research is focused on understanding what digital technologies reveal about who we are, and how use of digital technologies shapes who we are. Her current projects analyze people's everyday behavioral patterns (e.g., social interactions, mobility) and environmental contexts (e.g., places visited, social media platforms) to show how they are associated with individual differences in personality and well-being.
Harari takes an ecological approach to conducting her research, emphasizing the importance of studying people and their behavior in natural contexts. To that end, she conducts intensive longitudinal field studies and is interested in mobile sensing methods and analytic techniques that combine approaches from the social and computer sciences. For example, methodologies she uses in her work in include surveys, experience sampling, longitudinal modeling, mobile sensing, data mining, and machine learning.
Harari completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship and earned her PhD at the Department of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. She completed her BA in Psychology & Humanities from Florida International University, where she was also a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Her work has been published in academic outlets such as Perspectives in Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). Her work has also been supported by the National Science Foundation and Stanford HAI Seed Grant Awards.
Education
BA, Florida International University, Psychology & Humanities (2011)
PhD, The University of Texas at Austin, Psychology (2016)
Gary M. Pomerantz is a nonfiction author and journalist, and has served the past fourteen years as a lecturer in the Department of Communication at Stanford University.
His sixth and most recent book, The Last Pass, a New York Times bestseller about Bob Cousy and the storied Boston Celtics dynasty of the 1950s and sixties, is an intimate story about a basketball icon at ninety coming to terms with his racial regrets.
Pomerantz spent 17 years as a daily journalist, first as a sportswriter for The Washington Post where he covered Georgetown University basketball, and the National Football League, and later at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution where he wrote about race, sports, culture and politics, and served for a time on the newspaper's editorial board.
His nonfiction books cover a wide array of topics. The first, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, a multi-generational biography of Atlanta and its racial conscience, was named in 1996 a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. The book has been optioned and is currently in development as a period drama television series.
Geri was Director of Photography at the San Jose Mercury News from 1993 to 2009. Under Geri's tenure, the Mercury News won major awards for photo editing and multimedia, sustaining the paper as a leader and innovator in digital visual journalism.
Geri was executive producer of a 2007 national News and Documentary Emmy Award-winning web documentary, "Uprooted." for the Mercury News. She was a newsroom leader for the coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake awarded a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting for the Mercury News. She also edited the paper's coverage of California's recall election, a 2003 Pulitzer finalist in Feature Photography. Geri was a 2004-5 Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where she studied multimedia narratives. She is a 2013 inductee to the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame.
Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, Henry is majoring in economics and philosophy, recently wrote an honors thesis through the Ethics in Society program, and is pursuing a Media Studies coterm (focused on the emerging Independent Content Creator economy) under the direction of Prof. Jay Hamilton. On campus Henry is president of the sketch comedy group, a tour guide, and aspiring DJ. Professionally, Henry has work experience in public policy, venture capital, and private equity, and hopes to combine these experiences with his passion for satire and journalism.
Job Titles:
- Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by Courtesy, of Communication and of Political Science
Nathaniel Persily is the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, with appointments in the departments of Political Science, Communication, and FSI. Prior to joining Stanford, Professor Persily taught at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and as a visiting professor at Harvard, NYU, Princeton, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Melbourne. Professor Persily's scholarship and legal practice focus on American election law or what is sometimes called the "law of democracy," which addresses issues such as voting rights, political parties, campaign finance, redistricting, and election administration. He has served as a special master or court-appointed expert to craft congressional or legislative districting plans for Georgia, Maryland, Connecticut, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. He also served as the Senior Research Director for the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. In addition to dozens of articles (many of which have been cited by the Supreme Court) on the legal regulation of political parties, issues surrounding the census and redistricting process, voting rights, and campaign finance reform, Professor Persily is coauthor of the leading election law casebook, The Law of Democracy (Foundation Press, 5th ed., 2016), with Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela Karlan, and Richard Pildes. His current work, for which he has been honored as a Guggenheim Fellow, Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, examines the impact of changing technology on political communication, campaigns, and election administration. He is codirector of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, Stanford Program on Democracy and the Internet, and the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, which supported local election officials in taking the necessary steps during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide safe voting options for the 2020 election. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a commissioner on the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age. He received a B.A. and M.A. in political science from Yale (1992); a J.D. from Stanford (1998) where he was President of the Stanford Law Review, and a Ph.D. in political science from U.C. Berkeley in 2002.
James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy.
He received his B.A. from Yale in 1970 and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale as well as a second Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge.
He is the author of Democracy When the People Are Thinking (Oxford 2018), When the People Speak (Oxford 2009), Deliberation Day (Yale 2004 with Bruce Ackerman) and Democracy and Deliberation (Yale 1991).
He is best known for developing Deliberative Polling® - a practice of public consultation that employs random samples of the citizenry to explore how opinions would change if they were more informed. His work on deliberative democracy has stimulated more than 100 Deliberative Polls in 28 countries around the world. It has been used to help governments and policy makers make important decisions in Texas, China, Mongolia, Japan, Macau, South Korea, Bulgaria, Brazil, Uganda and other countries around the world.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Education
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Philosophy (1976)
Ph.D., Yale University, Political Science (1975)
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Yale College (1970)
Job Titles:
- Department Chair
- Director, Journalism Program
- Director, Undergraduate Studies in Communication
- Hearst Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
- Hearst Professor of Communication / Chair, Department of Communication / Director, Stanford Journalism Program
James T. Hamilton is the Hearst Professor of Communication, Chair of the Department of Communication, and Director of the Stanford Journalism Program. His books on media markets and information provision include All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News (Princeton, 2004), Regulation Through Revelation: The Origin, Politics, and Impacts of the Toxics Release Inventory Program (Cambridge, 2005), and Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming (Princeton, 1998). His most recent book, Democracy's Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism (Harvard, 2016), focuses on the market for investigative reporting. Through research in the field of computational journalism, he is also exploring how the costs of story discovery can be lowered through better use of data and algorithms. He is co-founder of the Stanford Computational Journalism Lab, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, affiliated faculty at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, and member of the JSK Fellowships Board of Visitors.
For his accomplishments in research, he has won awards such as the David N Kershaw Award of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Goldsmith Book Prize from the Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center (twice), the Frank Luther Mott Research Award (twice), the Tankard Book Award, and a Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship. Teaching awards from Harvard, Duke, and Stanford include the Allyn Young Prize for Excellence in Teaching the Principles of Economics, Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award, Bass Society of Fellows, Susan Tifft Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award, and School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Hamilton taught at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, where he directed the De Witt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. He earned a BA in Economics and Government (summa cum laude) and PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, Economics (1991)
B.A., Harvard University, Economics and Government (1983)
Hamilton's research focuses on computational journalism and he is exploring how the costs of story discovery can be lowered through better use of data and algorithms.
Job Titles:
- Professor ( Teaching ) of Communication, Emeritus
- Professor ( Teaching ), Emeritus / Director Emeritus, John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships
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- Lecturer
- Founder and Senior Counsel for the First Amendment Project
James Wheaton is founder and senior counsel for the First Amendment Project, a public interest law firm which protects peoples' First Amendment rights to learn about and participate in public affairs. He is also president of the Environmental Law Foundation, a public interest environmental justice program in Oakland.
Wheaton has played prominent roles in a number of civic and professional groups, including co-chair of the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter's Freedom of Information Committee. He is the former executive director of California Common Cause; he also served as an Oakland Public Ethics Commissioner and as a member of the executive committee of the California State Bar Environmental Section.
Wheaton received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at San Francisco State University and at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism since 1999.
Job Titles:
- Professor of International Communication
- Professor of International Communication, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by Courtesy, of Political Science
Fishkin's work focuses on deliberative democracy and democratic theory.
Janine Zacharia has reported on Israel, the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy for close to two decades including stints as Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the Washington Post, chief diplomatic correspondent for Bloomberg News, Washington bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, and Jerusalem correspondent for Reuters. She appears regularly on cable news shows and radio programs as a Middle East analyst and is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of Communication at Stanford University.
Job Titles:
- Founding Director of the Stanford Social Media Lab
- Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication
- Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Jeff Hancock is the founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab and is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Professor Hancock and his group work on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media. The team specializes in using computational linguistics and experiments to understand how the words we use can reveal psychological and social dynamics, such as deception and trust, emotional dynamics, intimacy and relationships, and social support. Recently Professor Hancock has begun work on understanding the mental models people have about algorithms in social media, as well as working on the ethical issues associated with computational social science.
Hancock works on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media.
Job Titles:
- Scientist
- Education
- Professor of Chinese Studies
- Professor of Communication
- Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute
Jennifer Pan is a political scientist whose research focuses on political communication, digital media, and authoritarian politics. She is the Sir Robert Ho Tung Professor of Chinese Studies, Professor of Communication and (by courtesy) Political Science, and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute.
Dr. Pan's research uses experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity to answer questions about the role of digital media in authoritarian and democratic politics, including how political censorship, propaganda, and information manipulation work in the digital age and how preferences and behaviors are shaped as a result. Her book, Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers (Oxford, 2020) shows how China's pursuit of political order transformed the country's main social assistance program, Dibao. Her papers have appeared in peer reviewed publications such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Communication, and Science.
She graduated from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University's Department of Government.
Education
BA, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs (2004)
PhD, Harvard University, Government (2015)
Job Titles:
- Director, Doctoral Program in Communication
- Founding Director of Stanford University 's Virtual Human Interaction Lab
- Media Psychology, Advisor
- Professor, Senior Fellow
- Thomas More Storke Professor of Communication / Director, Doctoral Program in Communication
Jeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Thomas More Storke Professor in the Department of Communication, Professor (by courtesy) of Education, Professor (by courtesy) Program in Symbolic Systems, and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication for over a decade. He earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1994 and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University in 1999. He spent four years at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and then an Assistant Research Professor.
Bailenson studies the psychology of Virtual and Augmented Reality, in particular how virtual experiences lead to changes in perceptions of self and others. His lab builds and studies systems that allow people to meet in virtual space, and explores the changes in the nature of social interaction. His most recent research focuses on how virtual experiences can transform education, environmental conservation, empathy, and health. He is the recipient of the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Stanford. In 2020, IEEE recognized his work with "The Virtual/Augmented Reality Technical Achievement Award".
He has published more than 200 academic papers, spanning the fields of communication, computer science, education, environmental science, law, linguistics, marketing, medicine, political science, and psychology. His work has been continuously funded by the National Science Foundation for over 25 years.
His first book Infinite Reality, co-authored with Jim Blascovich, emerged as an Amazon Best-seller eight years after its initial publication, and was quoted by the U.S. Supreme Court. His new book, Experience on Demand, was reviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Nature, and The Times of London, and was an Amazon Best-seller.
He has written opinion pieces for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, CNN, PBS NewsHour, Wired, National Geographic, Slate, The San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has produced or directed six Virtual Reality documentary experiences which were official selections at the Tribeca Film Festival. His lab has exhibited VR in hundreds of venues ranging from The Smithsonian to The Superbowl.
Education
B.A., University of Michigan, Cognitive Science (1994)
M.S., Cognitive Psychology, Northwestern University (1996)
Ph.D., Northwestern University, Cognitive Psychology (1999)
Job Titles:
- Professor of Communication
Jon Krosnick is a social psychologist who does research on attitude formation, change, and effects, on the psychology of political behavior, and on survey research methods. He is the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and (by courtesy) Psychology. At Stanford, in addition to his professorships, he directs the Political Psychology Research Group and the Summer Institute in Political Psychology.
To read reports on Professor Krosnick's research program exploring public opinion on the environment visit the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Public Opinion on Climate Change web sites.
Job Titles:
- Director of Finance and Operations
- Department
Kaitlyn Lim was an STS undergrad and concentrated in Communications and Media. Kaitlin is on the softball team and hopes they can make it back to the Women's College World Series this year. She is from Irvine, California and some of her hobbies include: going to the beach, enjoying boba, watching sunsets, and spending time outdoors.
Roehrick uses computational and linguistic analyses to study human-computer interaction and digital media. She is a Stanford Graduate Fellow.
Job Titles:
- Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism
Tumgoren is passionate about open source tools and platforms that help journalists uncover data-driven stories.
Mado studies media literacy education. She uses ethnographic methods to explore the practices and epistemological assumptions that underlie the design and teaching of media literacy programs.
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- Program Administrator, Stanford Journalism Program
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- Student in Communication, Admitted Autumn 2021
Matt is interested in how institutions get people to believe things, especially in China and the United States (media, politics, beliefs).
Job Titles:
- Student in Communication, Admitted Autumn 2021
Ng is interested in how media can be leveraged by community-based organizations to advocate for more equitable natural resource management.
Santoso is interested in the social, psychological, and behavioral implications of virtual reality, particularly in the context of climate and sustainability.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School
Morgan N. Weiland is the Executive Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, where she received her JD in 2015. She is in the process of completing the first joint degree program between SLS and Stanford's Communication Department, where she is a PhD candidate. Her dissertation investigates the structural role of speech platforms like Facebook and Twitter in the public sphere to understand what responsibilities these companies have to the public, and what policies ought to be enacted to ensure both free expression and accountability.
Weiland was a Lecturer in Law at SLS during the 2017-18 academic year, when she developed and taught a new course about platforms, law, and ethics with Professor Barbara van Schewick. She is also a Graduate Fellow at SLS's Center for Internet & Society. She clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals during the 2018-19 term. She is admitted to the California Bar.
Neufeld is interested in political polarization, party loyalty, and persuasion techniques that lead to lasting attitude change.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Law / Professor of Communication by Courtesy
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- Manager, Center for Deliberative Democracy
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- Professor of Communication / Professor of Psychology
- Professor of Communication and of Psychology
Nilam's research grows out of a history of studying change. After completing his undergraduate study of economics, he worked as a currency trader, frantically tracking and trying to predict the movement of world markets as they jerked up, down and sideways. Later, he moved on to the study of human movement, kinesiology, and eventually psychological processes - with a specialization in longitudinal research methodology. Generally, Nilam studies how short-term changes (e.g., processes such as learning, information processing, emotion regulation, etc.) develop across the life span, and how longitudinal study designs contribute to generation of new knowledge. Current projects include examinations of age-related change in children's self- and emotion-regulation; patterns in minute-to-minute and day-to-day progression of adolescents' and adults' emotions; and change in contextual influences on well-being during old age. He is developing a variety of study paradigms that use recent developments in data science and the intensive data streams arriving from social media, mobile sensors, and smartphones to study change at multiple time scales.
Ram studies the dynamic interplay between psychological and media processes and how they change from moment-to-moment and across the life span.
Vinoya is interested in how digital media can be leveraged as a tool to understand human behavior in a more natural context. Particularly, media habits can be captured to help unveil aspects of personality expression, well-being, and life outcomes.
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- Professor of Communication at Stanford University
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- Facilities Services Administrator
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- Professor of Communication
- Professor of Communication, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by Courtesy, of Education
Reeves' research includes message processing, social cognition, and social and emotion responses to media.
Job Titles:
- Student in Communication, Admitted Autumn 2019
Reagan is interested in the intersections of race, gender, and new media and technology. She is also interested in understanding how new technology might be used to disrupt anti-Black racism. More
Becca Lewis researches ideological and social histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Park is interested in understanding how individual decision-making diverges from policy actors' (e.g., political elites or scientific experts) views and the underlying cognitive processes.
R.B. Brenner is a Lecturer in the Department of Communication. He returned to Stanford in 2018 after four years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a tenured full professor and director of the School of Journalism. He had been a Stanford Lecturer from 2010 to 2014.
His teaching is informed by a three-decade career as a reporter and editor. He held several prominent editing positions at The Washington Post, including Sunday Editor and Metro Editor. He was one of the primary editors of The Post's coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, and played a leadership role in merging the digital and print newsrooms.
He has been a consultant for two journalism-themed films: "The Post" (2017) and "State of Play" (2009).
Job Titles:
- Student in Communication, Admitted Autumn 2020
Appel is interested in the intersection of Behavioral Science and Computer Science, with the aim of leveraging psychological targeting ethically and for the common good.
Moore is interested in older adults' digital media use.
Job Titles:
- Student Services, Faculty Affairs, Rebele Internship Program Director, Website Administrator
Soh is interested in understanding the relationships between digital media use and well-being, specifically in the context of delivering personalized behavior change interventions through smartphones.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Communication, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Vaid's research explores how digital media technologies can be used to study and alter psychological processes and outcomes. He is especially interested in a person-specific, computational and idiographic approach that examines the extent to which individual differ from each other in their response to different kinds of media. More
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- Associate Director, Social Media Lab
Tanner Christensen is a rising senior at Stanford pursuing a joint master's in communication and bachelor's in psychology. Outside of academics, he is on the Stanford Cheer Team, loves to dance, and keeps a bullet journal.
Graciano is interested in reducing political polarization and ensuring policy-making is guided by the wishes of common citizens through the implementation of Deliberative Democracy methods.
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- Professor of Communication, Emeritus
Glasser's research focuses on media practices and performance, with emphasis on questions of press responsibility and accountability.
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- Professor of the Practice, Earth Systems
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- Professor, Senior Fellow
- Thomas More Storke Professor of Communication / Director, Doctoral Program in Communication
- Thomas More Storke Professor, Emeritus
Donald Roberts received his A.B. from Columbia University (1961) and his M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley (1963). He earned his Ph.D. in communication at Stanford in 1968, then became a member of the department faculty, serving as Director of the Institute for Communication Research from 1985-1990 and from 1999-2001. He chaired the department from 1990-1996.
Roberts teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on communication theory and research and on children, youth, and media. His primary area of research concerns how children and adolescents use and respond to media, a topic on which he has written extensively (e.g., chapters in The Handbook of Communication, Learning from Television: Psychological and Education Research, The International Encyclopedia of Communications, The Handbook of Children and the Media,and The Handbook of Adolescent Psychology).
He has also written comprehensive reviews of the literature on the effects of mass communication for the Annual Review of Psychology and for the revised edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology, and co-authored a chapter on public opinion processes in the Handbook of Communication Science.
Roberts helped to design a parental advisory system to label violence, sex/nudity, and language for the computer software industry which has been adapted by the Internet Content Rating Association for use on the World Wide Web. He has spoken on the issue of content labeling and advisories internationally (e.g., Mexico, Korea, Australia, South Africa), and has published several articles dealing with content labeling.
Guarna is interested in the new meanings of citizenship, trust, and legitimacy in the digital public sphere.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Political Science / Professor of Communication
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- Professor of Communication
Jacks Family Professor of Education
Professor of Communication by courtesy
Faculty co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
woodyp@stanford.edu
His interests focus on the processes through which ideas and practices move across organizations, and the role of networks in facilitating or hindering the transfer of ideas.
Li's research examines questions surrounding the relationship between information technology and knowledge production and its role in the organization of social life.