Julia Cope

Julia Cope studies how people learn and make decisions based on science and technology information that they encounter online. She is interested in the social implications of networked technologies.

Cope is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies how people engage with online information related to science and technology and how that engagement affects their worldviews and actions. She investigates the social implications of networked technologies through computational and qualitative methods. 

She received her B.S. and M.S. in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and worked as a data engineer and business analyst before joining Annenberg.