Episode Description Associate professor Elizabeth Stoycheff, Ph.D., talks about her research into the power of social media, why so many users struggle with conflicting feelings about the platforms and how to regulate our social media use for the better.
About Elizabeth Stoycheff, Ph.D., teaches journalism, new media, international communication and quantitative methods. She has been named a Promising Professor by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and earned the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts Outstanding Teaching Award in 2017. She was also awarded a Scripps Howard Visiting Professor in Social Media. Her research focuses on the role of new media in shaping public opinion about democracy, media censorship and press freedom, which is grounded in a range of contexts from the Arab Spring to Russia-Ukraine relations to NSA internet surveillance. She is an expert in online privacy and government monitoring as well as disinformation ("fake news") campaigns. She specializes in big data comparative surveys, natural experiments and formal experimental designs.
Additional Resources Follow Elizabeth Stoycheff on Twitter https://twitter.com/estoyche
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Read Prof. Stoycheff’s article “How Facebook Went from Friend to Enemy” https://theconversation.com/how-facebook-went-from-friend-to-frenemy-110130
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