Jen Schradie

Jen Schradie is a sociologist at the Observatoire sociologique du changement at Sciences Po in Paris. A graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, she received her Phd in sociology and new media at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, her work on digital democracy has been featured on CNN and the BBC and in the New Yorker, Le Monde, The Washington Post, Time, and WIRED Magazine. Schradie is a frequent analyist on France 24. She was awarded the Public Sociology Alumni Prize at the University of California, Berkeley, and has directed six documentary films. Her book, The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives, won the 2020 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association. Her book has been published in French (Collection Quanto): L'illusion de la démocratie numérique. Internet est-il de droite ?