Members

Faculty

Guobin Yang, Director
digital media, political communication, global communication, social movements, cultural sociology, China
gyang@asc.upenn.edu

Sandra González-Bailón
social media, protests, mobilization, online social networks, information diffusion, automated text analysis
sgonzalezbailon@asc.upenn.edu

Susan Haas
advocacy journalism, border crossings, transnational news organizations
sdhaas@fast.net

Anne Kaun
social movements, protest, media experiences, mediated citizenship, media memories
anne.kaun@sh.se

Jessa Lingel
information inequalities, technological distributions of power
jlingel@asc.upenn.edu

Luis Moreno-Caballud
social movements, cultural hierarchy and democratization, revolts against neoliberalism, peer-to-peer media

mluis@sas.upenn.edu

Victor Pickard
history and political economy of media institutions, media activism, media policy
vpickard@asc.upenn.edu

Marcus T. Wright
digital media, mass communication, learning sciences, learning technology
marcuswr@sas.upenn.edu

Shiwen Wu
new media and society, online activism, health communication
buochun@126.com

Graduate Students

Omar Al-Ghazzi
global communication, journalism, collective memory, media activism
oalghazzi@asc.upenn.edu

David Elliot Berman
technology, political discourse, news consumption, civic engagement
dberman@asc.upenn.edu

Lyndsey Beutin
race, representation, violence, memory, media, visual culture
lbeutin@asc.upenn.edu

Rosemary Clark
feminism, gender, media, social movements, representation
rclark@asc.upenn.edu

Jasmine Erdener
gender, identity, digital media, activism
jerdener@asc.upenn.edu

Kecheng Fang
media, politics, China
kfang@asc.upenn.edu

Elisabetta Ferrari
social movements, collective action, digital technologies
eferrari@asc.upenn.edu

Nicholas Gilewicz
journalism, collective memory, digital media
ngilewicz@asc.upenn.edu

Ashley Gorham
technology, democracy, hacktivism, democratic theory
agorham@sas.upenn.edu

Leslie Jones
race, gender, digital media representations, digital inequality
lesjones@sas.upenn.edu

Jenny Korn
identity, representation, power, race, gender, activism, feminism, digital media
kornpublic@comcast.net

Tim Libert
digital media, privacy, information flows, digital rights
tlibert@asc.upenn.edu

James Losey
global internet, collective action, rule of law, citizenship
james.losey@ims.su.se

Ran Liu
civil society development, social movements, NGOs, internet censorship, social network analysis
ranliu@sas.upenn.edu

Debora Lui
education, social media, museums
dlui@asc.upenn.edu

Sonita Moss
social movements, cultural production, urban inequality
sonitam@sas.upenn.edu

Jonathan Pace
mass media, social movements, globalization, critical theory
jpace@asc.upenn.edu

Pawel Popiel
media industries, media policy, media activism
ppopiel@asc.upenn.edu

Steven Schrag
digital culture, critical theory, sound studies, game studies
sschrag@asc.upenn.edu

Alexandra Sastre
bodies, digital media, feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, postcolonial theory
asastre@asc.upenn.edu

David Sorge
micro-sociology, social theory, conflict, mixed research methods, sociolinguistics
dsorge@sas.upenn.edu

Rachel N. Stonecipher
digital media, human rights, embodiment, power, resistance
rstonecipher@asc.upenn.edu

Başak Taraktaş
digital media, human rights, embodiment, power, resistance
basakt@sas.upenn.edu