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Aaron M. McCright
USA
Professor of Sociology & Chairperson in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University.
Amy X. Zhang
USA
Assistant Professor, Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington | Head of the Social Futures Lab
Anna Staender
Switzerland
Research Associate at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, Division: International & Comparative Media Research, University of Zurich
Anthony Leiserowitz
USA
Founder and Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale School of the Environment.
Anwar Haque
Canada
Dr. Haque is a faculty member in the Dept. of Computer Science at the Western University, Canada. Dr. Haque is the director of the Western Information & Networking Group (WING) Lab, where he conducts cutting-edge research in emerging network technologies and smart systems.
James O. Freedman
USA
Freedman Presidential Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on misperceptions about politics and health care. co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a watchdog group that monitors the status of American democracy
Briony Swire-Thompson
USA
Senior Research Scientist at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute and a fellow at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences
Brooke Foucault Welles
USA
Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and a core faculty member of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University
Claire Wardle
USA
Dr. Claire Wardle is co-founder and co-director of the Information Futures Lab, and Professor of the Practice at the Brown School of Public Health. She is considered a leader in the field of misinformation, verification and user generated content. She is co-founder and director of First Draft, the world’s foremost nonprofit focused on research and practice to address mis- and disinformation.
Danah Boyd
USA
Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of Data & Society. She's also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her research examines the intersection between technology and society.
Daniel Effron
UK
A social psychologist by training and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School.
David G. Rand
USA
Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, the director of the Applied Cooperation Team, and an affiliate of the MIT Institute of Data, Systems, and Society, and the Initiative on the Digital Economy.
David Lazer
USA
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networksl.
Edda Humprecht
Germany
SI am a Professor of Communication Research at the University of Jena in Germany. She is also the head of a research group focused on Digitalization and the Public Sphere. Her primary research focus is on how political communication is shaped by opportunity structures in different countries. She analyze various forms of online communication, including comment sections, YouTube videos, and news, and use empirical typologies to explain differences between countries. She is researching ways to empower news users against manipulative communication, such as disinformation, conspiracy narratives, and hate speech, in different countries.
Deen Freelon
USA
An empirical researcher of political communication who focuses on digital politics | Associate professor, Hussman School of Journalism and Media, UNC-Chapel Hill
Heidi J. Larson
UK
Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and is the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Hannah Bailey
UK
A student on the DPhil in Social Data Science, and was previously a student on the MSc in Social Science of the Internet. A doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project
J. Scott Brennen
UK
Communication scholar and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the Oxford Internet Institute.
Hossein Derakhshan
USA
UK
An Iranian-Canadian writer and researcher, and a pioneer of blogging, podcasts and tech journalism in Iran. A research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center and a research associate at the MIT Media Lab. Co-authored the report "Information Disorder".
John Cook
Australia
Climate Change Communication Researcher
Joy Buolamwini
USA
Joy Buolamwini is a computer scientist and poet of code who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League to create a world with more equitable and accountable technology.
Jamal Greene
USA
An American legal scholar whose scholarship focuses on constitutional law. The Dwight ProFacebook'sfessor of Law at Columbia Law School & One of four co-chairs of Oversight Board, a body that adjudicates Facebook's content moderation decisions.
Kate Starbird
USA
Kate is a co-founder of the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, which formed in 2019 around a shared mission of resisting strategic misinformation, promoting an informed society, and strengthening democratic discourse. | Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington
Joshua Tucker
USA
Professor of Politics, Director Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, Co-Director NYU Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) lab, Affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Affiliated Professor of Data Science
Lee McIntyre
USA
Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He the author of How to Talk to a Science Denier, The Scientific Attitude, Post-Truth, Dark Ages, Respecting Truth and other books.
Julie Posetti
UK
Global Director of Research, International Center For Journalists (ICFJ). An internationally published Australian journalist and academic. In 2018 she was appointed Senior Research Fellow with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.
Lucas Graves
USA
Lucas Graves is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism came out in 2016 from Columbia University Press. Graves writes and speaks widely on topics relating to the news, politics, and new media, including political fact-checking, annotative journalism, net neutrality, and the open-source movement.
Leticia Bode
USA
Leticia Bode is a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology master's program at Georgetown University. She studies political communication, misinformation, new media..
Megan Boler
Canada
Megan Boler is Full Professor at the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Manuel Castells
Afghanistan
Australia
Manuel Castells Oliván is a Spanish sociologist especially associated with research on the information society, communication and globalization. In January 2020, he was appointed Minister of Universities in the Sánchez II Government of Spain. He is the professor at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Miriam Metzger
USA
Dr. Metzger is a professor at the Department of Communication, UC Santa Barbara. Her research seeks to understand the individual and societal effects of using information and communication technology by studying the forces that shape people’s trust of and perceptions about online information. More specifically, her work employs quantitative social science methods to study the ways in which digital communication technologies challenge users’ ability to evaluate the credibility of information online and negotiate privacy decisions
Michael Bossetta
Sweden
Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. He specializes in the impact of social media on politics.
Myanna Lahsen
Sweden
Brazil
Dr. Lahsen is an Associate Professor at Linköping University in Sweden, and Senior Associate (“Titular”) Researcher in the Earth System Science Center of the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil. She is cultural anthropologist and science and technology studies scholar by training, and use mixed methods to study knowledge politics and socio-cultural dynamics bearing on science, development, global environmental change and sustainability transformations, primarily in the United States and Brazil, as well as international institutions.
Nadia Brashier
USA
She is an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego. Her research identifies why young and older adults fall for fake news and misinformation. She studies memory and judgment across the lifespan, with a specific focus on cognitive “shortcuts” people use to evaluate truth.
Nina Jankowicz
USA
Nina Jankowicz studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of How To Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict (Bloomsbury/IBTauris). Ms. Jankowicz has advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship.
Peter Van Aelst
Netherlands
Peter Van Aelst is a research professor at the department of political science at the University of Antwerp and a founding member of the research group 'Media, Movements and Politics' (M2P). His research focuses on political communication.
Renée Diresta
USA
Technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory | Misinformation/Disinformation Expert
Richard Stengel
USA
Richard Stengel is the longest serving Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in American history (2013-16). While at the State Department, he helped modernize State’s communications and led the department’s counter-disinformation efforts. He helped create and oversee the Global Engagement Center.
Riley Dunlap
USA
Environmental sociologist, Regents Prof and Dresser Prof Emeritus, Oklahoma St. U., and past Chair of the ASA Task Force on Sociology & Global Climate Change .
Rob Kitchin
Ireland
Rob Kitchin is a Professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, Ireland. In his book "Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World" explores how data-driven technologies have become essential to society, government and the economy.
Robert Mejia
USA
Associate Professor at North Dakota State University. As a media and cultural studies scholar, his research focuses on the relationship between culture, economics, politics, and technology.
Samantha Bradshaw
USA
Samantha is a leading expert on technology and democracy. Her dissertation research examined the producers and drivers of disinformation, and how technology—artificial intelligence, automation and big data analytics—enhance and constrain the spread of disinformation online.
Samuel C. Woolley
USA
Dr. Samuel Woolley, an assistant professor at the School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin, is a writer, researcher and professor with a focus on emerging media technologies and propaganda. His recent book, The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth (PublicAffairs/Hachette, 2020) explores the future of digital disinformation across virtual reality, video, and other media tools. He i
Stephan Lewandowsky
UK
A cognitive scientist with an interest in computational modeling. He is interested in how people update their memories if things they believe turn out to be false. This has led him to examine the persistence of misinformation in society, and how myths and misinformation can spread.
Sophie Morosoli
Netherlands
Dr. Morosoli is a Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam. She has a background in political communication research and is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the AI, Media and Democracy Lab. Her interest in AI and other emerging technologies deepened during her PhD, which focused on the individual dissemination of online misinformation. Within the Lab, she is exploring individuals ‘attitudes towards AI (in journalism) with a special focus on trust, risk perceptions, and authenticity
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
USA
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He directs the Third Space research group at the DGP Lab. He is also a graduate faculty member of the School of Environment, and a faculty affiliate at Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.
Tamara A. Small
Canada
Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. Her research interests focus is digital politics: use and impact of digital technologies by Canadian political actors.
Thomas Rid
USA
Thomas Rid is a political scientist best known for his work on the history and risks of information technology in conflict. He is Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Australia
Expert on human memory and the effects of misinformation on reasoning and decision making. His research can inform communication strategies, in particular when trying to debunk myths.
Victoria Rubin
Canada
Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. As a researcher, she specializes in information retrieval and natural language processing techniques that enable analyses of texts to identify, extract, and organize structured knowledge.
Yochai Benkler
USA
Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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