Director of the Center for Media, Communication, and Global Change

Jayson Harsin

Associate Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture 

Research focus; Political trust and truth; emotion, gender, and politics; political distraction and attention; U.S. history of socio-economic rights movements.

Advisory Board of the Center for Media, Communication, and Global Change (2022-23)

Waddick Doyle

Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture 

Associate Dean for Academic Program Innovation 

Director Emeritus, Civic Media Lab 

Research focus: semiotics of belief, attention, branding and religion, coexistence and belief 

Jessica Feldman

Assistant Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture,  

Affiliated Researcher, Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab 

Research interests: social movements and digital tools, AI and listening, new media art, digital democracy 

Noémie Oxley

Assistant Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture 

Research focus: visual culture, tactical media, and depictions of violence in wartime 

Claudia Roda

Director MSc in Human Right and Data Science

Professor, Computer Science 

Co-founder, Technology and Cognition Lab 

Co-founder, Working Group on Human Rights and Digital Technology 

Research focus: the impact of digital technology on human behavior and social structure