So Yun Ahn
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Mike Ananny
Associate Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Keywords: theories of the public, science & technology studies, journalism
Jeeyun Sophia Baik
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of San Diego
[she/her]
Keywords: privacy, surveillance, Platform governance
Nathan Bartley
Doctoral Student
Viterbi School of Engineering
Ziyaad Bhorat
Country Lead: USA, South Africa (Responsible Computing Challenge) and Global AI Policy at Mozilla; Associate Director, Center for Generative AI (USC); Visiting Scholar, Dornsife Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life (STPL)
Keywords: automation, political theory, governance
Sarah Ciston
Doctoral Candidate
Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts
[she/they]
Keywords: intersectionality, artificial intelligence, creative codingÂ
Alanna Coombes
Doctoral Student
Price School of Public Policy
Katalin Fehér
Associate Professor
University of Public Service - Department for Science Strategy
Nicholas P. Fernacz
Doctoral Student
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences - East Asian Languages and Cultures
Keywords: economic history, infrastructure, media theory
Molly Frizzell
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]
Keywords: reproductive technologies, bodies and borders, identity
Rohan Grover
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Keywords: political communication, digital activism, internet policy
Nisa Gurbiz
Doctoral Student
Price School of Public Policy and Management
Keywords: digital platforms, algorithmic management, gig economy
Meredith Hall
Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Sociology
Keywords: color, intellectual property law and policy, creativity, technological innovation
Grace Huang
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Keywords: artificial intelligence, algorithmic surveillance, gig economy
Alfonso Hegde
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Keywords: infrastructure, digital activism, platform affordances
Simogne Hudson
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]
Keywords: sound technologies, telephones, prisons, law & policy
Jackie Johnson
Doctoral Candidate
School of Cinematic Arts
[she/her]
Keywords: romance, cultural production, "new" media
Eugene Jang
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Kyooeun Jang
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]
Keywords: social networking platforms, platform and online content governance, trust and safety
Lee Kezar
Doctoral Candidate
Viterbi School of Engineering
[they/them]
Keywords: computational social science, computational linguistics (NLP), social psychology
Taner Kizilhan
Visiting Scholar
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Keywords: smart cities, digital citizenship, critical data studies
Maria Labourt
Doctoral Student
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Sociology
Keywords: nature, infrastructure, river
Fidelia Lam
Doctoral Candidate
Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts
Keywords: race & diaspora, geography, architectures, new media
Jody Liu
Doctoral Student
Price School of Public Policy
[she/her]
Keywords: LGBTQ+, policing, urban planning
Alphoncina (Allie) Lyamuya
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]
Keywords: humanitarian innovation, border technologies, digital infrastructure
Colin Maclay
Research Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Azeb Madebo
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies
University of Portland
Reema Moussa
J.D. Candidate
Gould School of Law
[she/her]
Keywords: law & policy, cybersecurity, algorithmic bias
Pratik Nyaupane
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Keywords: surveillance technologies, activism, Global South
Will Orr
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Ali Rachel Pearl
Lecturer
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - English
[she/her]
Jef Pearlman
Associate Professor & Director, IP & Technology Clinic
Gould School of Law
[he/him]
Victor Manuel Garcia Perdomo
Full Professor
Universidad de La Sabana
Fulbright Visiting Scholar
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Keywords: artificial intelligence, social media, journalism, politics, engagement
Pamela Perrimon
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Christopher Persaud
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/they]
Keywords: popular culture, platform governance, social media
Jennifer Petersen
Associate Professor & Director of STS Graduate Certificate Program
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]
Barath Raghavan
Assistant Professor
Viterbi School of Engineering
Jessica Ramos
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]
Keywords: surveillance studies, STS, race & technology
Peter Redfield
Professor
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Anthropology
Jermaine Anthony Richards
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Alejandro (Alex) Alvarado Rojas
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Keywords: datafication, infrastructure, networks
Daniel Rosen
Doctoral Candidate
School of Cinematic Arts
[he/him]
Keywords: media studies, livestreaming, infrastructure
Cyrus Shahabi
Helen N. & Emmett H. Jones Professor of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Spatial Sciences
Vitberbi School of Engineering
Hamsini Sridharan
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]
Noy Thrupkaew
Journalist
Independent / Annenberg Innovation Lab
Keywords: investigative journalism, labor issues, archival
Marlon Twyman II
Assistant Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Cristina Visperas
Assistant Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]
Josh Widera
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Keywords: platform urbanism, bicycle delivery workers
Yue Yang
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Kedi Zhou
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Keywords: gender, surveillance
Past Members
Adrienne Adams
Doctoral Student
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - American Studies & Ethnicity
[they/them]
Keywords: archival, Black Queer/Trans, science of technology
Andrea Alarcon
Soledad Altrudi
Quinn Anex-Ries, PhD
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - American Studies & Ethnicity
Laboni Bhattacharya
Doctoral Candidate
School of Cinematic Arts
Jean-Christophe Boucher
Assistant Professor
Political Science
University of Calgary
Ho-Chun Herbert Chang
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Franny Corry
Isabel Delano
(in memoriam)
Stefanie Demetriades
Sean Fraga
Do Own Donna Kim
Jillian Kwong
Anna Loup
Sulagna Mukherjee
Thi Ngoc Bich Becky Pham
Tyler Quick
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Key topics: identity, political economy, social media
William Russell
Doctoral Student
School of Cinematic Arts
Bita Tanavoli
Jack Tang
Jeff Watson
(in memoriam)
Assistant Professor
School of Cinematic Arts
Johannes Weiler
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Sharon Zhang
Undergraduate Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism