I'm interested in how our rapidly changing media environment poses challenges and presents opportunities for political engagement in democracies. Modern media can connect, but it can also stoke conflict; it can inform but also misinform; and that which inspires can also radicalize. I want to better understand the line (if there is one) between these pairings and what drives people from one to the other.

Temporary co-advisors: Robert Bond and William Chip Eveland