Researcher and professor/lecturer in communication, information, and journalism. Formerly at Columbia University (http://towcenter.org/academics/jonathan-albright/) Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/jalbright), and Elon University in North Carolina. I use quantitative, qualitative, and computational methods to study media, culture, and politics. My research area includes cross-platform analyses of socially-mediated events, digital forensics, and thematic data visualization to understand the impact of dis/misinformation and propaganda, developer/platform accountability, digital politics, advertising and tracking technologies, and the analysis of controversies using computational social science and open source intelligence methods.
Experience
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2023–presentSenior Lecturer, University of Western Australia
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2017–2021Research Director, Columbia University
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2014–2017Assistant Professor, Elon University
Education
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2013University of Amsterdam, Digital Methods Initiative (Cert)
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2012University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute (SDP)
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2010University of Auckland, PhD Candidate
Professional Memberships
- Online News Association
- Association of Internet Researchers
Research Areas
- Communication Technology And Digital Media Studies (200102)
- Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology (160808)
- Networking And Communications (080503)
Honours
Finalist, International Data Journalism Awards (2012, 2018), Visiting Researcher, Dept of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (2011)
- Australia
- Website
- @d1gi
- Article Feed
- ORCID
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