Ph.D. Students

Morgan Ames

In addition to communication and information science, Ames draws on science and technology studies, sociology, anthropology, and cultural theory to answer questions about the ways in which we make sense of technologies in our lives.

Jakki Bailey

Bailey is interested in the use and application of virtual environments, psychology, and education to affect attitude and behavior change.

Mathias Crawford

http://www.twitter.com/mfcrawford

Mathias is interested in the interplay between virtual representations of the world as communicated through games, and the manner in which these abstractions of the world become reflected in the real world: how they have impacted the types of organizations, social interactions and technologies that are experienced in the world.

James Cummings

Cummings' interests include the motivational relevance of media experiences and the psychology of fun, play, and games.

Dean Eckles

http://www.deaneckles.com

Dean investigates how interactive technologies actively influence human behavior, whether by implementing persuasive strategies or by mediating social influence. His work uses experiments, observational data, and new statistical methods.

Yeon Joo

My research interests include emotional interfaces, human-machine interaction (HMI), and the role of emotion in new media use.

Nuri Kim

Kim's research interests include deliberative democracy in theory and practice, small group dynamics, and the role of emotion in political communication.

Soohee Kim

My research interests include attitude formation, measurement of public opinion, and deliberative settings, with specific focus on the role of psychological and emotional factors.

Rene Kizilcec

Rene's research interests include human-computer interaction, user experience design, social media and knowledge networks.

Christine Larson

Christine is interested in the impact of technology and the digital economy on media workers and institutions.

Key Lee

www.stanford.edu/~keyjlee

Lee's current research interests include cognition, persuasion, and psychology of interactive technologies.

Yph Lelkes

Lelkes's research interests include political psychology and political communication, with a focus on attitude structure and formation.

Lise Marken

Marken's dissertation explores the impact of digital media on the practices and norms of traditional journalism and how these changes affect the nature of journalistic power.

Solomon Messing

Messing's research interests include political communication, psychology, race, and Internet communication.

Mike Nowak

Nowak's interests center on human-computer interaction and computer-mediated communication, with a focus on the psychology of interacting with intelligent systems in social contexts.

Ethan Plaut

Plaut's current research interests include the intersection of aesthetics and public discourse, humor as a social force and intercultural comparative media studies.

James Scarborough

Scarborough's research interests focus on the effects of using multi-user virtual environments including video games, educational applications, and virtual worlds.

Kathryn Segovia

Segovia's interests lie at the intersection of law and social science research.

Dave Vannette

Vannette's research interests focus on attitude measurement, public opinion polling, and survey methodology, to better understand and predict the ways in which different psychological and sociological factors influence survey data.

Anita Varma

Anita is interested in transnational media and theories of the public sphere, with an overarching interest in the sociology of news.

Rui Wang

Wang's research interests include deliberative democracy, democratic experiment and practice in China, comparative politics, public opinion, and survey methodology.

Morgan Weiland

http://www.morganweiland.us/

Weiland's research focuses on the intersection of American journalism and digital technologies. Her work explores the consequences of the changing journalism landscape on democracy, discourse, and media reform.   

Sean Westwood

Sean's interests include deliberation, political engagement and the consequences of new media on political processes.

Andrea Stevenson Won

Stevenson Won's research interests include the physical and cognitive effects of digital representations of the human body.

Kaiping Zhang

Zhang’s research interests lie at the dynamic process of deliberation in the practice of deliberative democracy. She is particularly interested in exploring this process from perspectives include group communication, rhetoric and cognitive psychology.

Yushu Zhou

Zhou's current research interests focus on cognition in mediated information processing, psychology of interactive technologies, attitude change, and decision making.