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Sam Chan Named 2018-20 Gerbner Fellow

Chan will study the lived experiences of gay and lesbian dating app users in urban China.

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Research

Using Research in Digital Rights Advocacy: Understanding the Research Needs of the Internet Freedom Community

An Internet Policy Observatory report seeks to understand how research is used within advocacy efforts.

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Faculty News

New Book by Sandra González-Bailón: Decoding the Social World

The book examines how our digital footprints can help solve paradoxes that have long intrigued social thinkers.

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Faculty News

Price Publishes New Edited Volume, Speech and Society in Turbulent Times

The book considers how societies address the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and new technologies.

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Faculty News

Is Social Media Surveillance the Virtual Stop-and-Frisk?

A new study by Desmond Patton develops a theory of everyday racism in digital policing.

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Call for Submissions

Call for Papers: ICA Preconference on Data and Publics

Submit papers that critically rethink the meaning and practices of publics and public communication.

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Faculty News

Pickard and Yang Edit New Book, Media Activism in the Digital Age

The book includes case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions.

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Alumni

Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication, Second Edition Edited by Paul Messaris and Lee Humphreys (Ph.D. ‘07)

The book boasts a wide range of scholars as contributors, including 11 with Annenberg connections.

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Graduate Student News

Doctoral Student Elisabetta Ferrari Studies Activism and Technology

Ferrari researches how social movements use digital technologies, and how activists think about technology personally and politically.

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Faculty News

Intervening in Gang Violence

Columbia's interdisciplinary research team is using language processing and qualitative analysis of social media posts to develop a mechanism to identify and intervene in gang violence.