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Digital Culture

Digital Culture

Social media. Memes. Email. YouTube. Dating apps. Influencers. Where are people spending their time online? How are they creating culture in online spaces? How does what happens online impact what happens IRL? Researchers at Annenberg aim to understand and analyze the culture(s) of the internet and the ways it is intertwined with our lives.

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Call for Submissions

26 Nov 2025

Call for Proposals: Edited Anthology on "The Long 1990s in Global Internet History"

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Call for Submissions

25 Nov 2025

International Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

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Faculty

Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.

Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication and Sociology (Secondary Appointment)

Emily Hund, Ph.D.

Research Affiliate, Center on Digital Culture and Society

Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Ennuri Jo, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Aviv Landau, Ph.D., M.S.W.

Co-Director, SAFELab

Jessa Lingel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Sophie Maddocks, Ph.D.

Research & Outreach Director, Center for Media at Risk

Lucy March, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Digital Culture and Society

Siva Mathiyazhagan, Ph.D., M.S.W.

Co-Director, SAFELab

Danaé Metaxa, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Matt Parker, Ph.D.

Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow

Desmond Upton Patton, M.S.W., Ph.D.

Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) University Professor and Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. Professor of Communication

Jeff Pooley, Ph.D.

Research Associate & Lecturer

Aswin Punathambekar, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication

Donovan Schaefer, Ph.D.

Secondary Faculty, Annenberg School for Communication

Hendrik Theine, Ph.D.

Visiting Scholar, Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC)

Julia Ticona, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Guobin Yang, Ph.D.

Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology

Graduate Students

David S. Cordero

Doctoral Candidate

Cienna Davis

Doctoral Student

Timothy Dennys Steven Dorr

Doctoral Candidate

Emilie Grybos

Doctoral Candidate

Tejas Harad

Doctoral Student

Nidah Mohammed

Doctoral Student

Thomonique Moore

Doctoral Student

Christine Phan

Doctoral Student

Yingchuan Qu

Doctoral Candidate

Sara Reinis

Doctoral Student

Lucila Rozas

Doctoral Candidate

Shane Sheehy

Doctoral Candidate

Taylor L. Smith

Doctoral Student

Mariela Morales Suárez, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Alex Tolkin, Ph.D.

Upcoming Graduate

Azsaneé Truss, Ph.D.

Upcoming Graduate

Ran Wang

Doctoral Student

Natasha Williams

Joint Doctoral Student in Communication and Political Science