University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bio Aman Abhishek is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is researching the use of hacked and leaked data in investigative journalism as well as the various digital tools and methods used to deal with such material. Aman has an M.A. in physics from the University …
Biography Mike Ananny is an Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism and, by courtesy, an Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts, at the University of Southern California. He studies how people build the digital news infrastructures, algorithmic systems, and artificial intelligence that create public life — and he tries to intervene to make these cultures and …
Bio Diana Bossio is Associate Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University Melbourne. Her award-winning research focusses on journalism and social media with current research addressing journalism practice on visual social media platforms, wellbeing in journalism and regulation of social media platforms around news content. Dr Bossio is lead author of Social Media and the …
Biography Bradley is a Teaching Faculty member in the Information School at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in information systems, technology, and security. Previously, he served as a Program Director and Cyber Security Instructor at Madison College, where he led multiple curriculum and program development initiatives. He has professional experience in IT systems administration, has …
Biography Dr. Thorsten Busch is a Senior Lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and a Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research and teaching revolve around a wide range of issues in corporate responsibility management, ethics of technology, sustainability, diversity, and game studies.
Bio I’m Zening Duan (pronounced ZEH-ning DWAN), a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computational Communication in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. In 2026, I was awarded the NUS Presidential Young Professorship (PYP) in Computational Social Science. I am also affiliated with research communities including the NUS Artificial Intelligence …
Bio Alia ElKattan is a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy who examines the sociopolitical implications of online platforms and emerging technologies. She obtained her Ph.D. at NYU Politics, where her research focused on how the design of technology mediates the acquisition of political information, and how to motivate and safeguard responsible, …
Biography Marloes Geboers is Assistant Professor Digital Methods for AI Platforms at the University of Amsterdam (ILLC and Media Studies department). Her research foregrounds the role of social media’s communicative design and how it shapes the undermining of journalistic authority. More specifically, Marloes develops platform-attuned methods for the study of social media and AI platforms. …
Biography Lucas Graves is Distinguished Researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has been at the forefront of research on the global fact-checking movement and is the author of Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American …
Biography Andrea L. Guzman is an associate professor of communication at Northern Illinois University. She has been fundamental in formalizing Human-Machine Communication research and supporting its international growth within communication and media studies. Her research focuses on people’s interactions with and perceptions of various forms of artificial intelligence, including voice-based assistants and generative AI, and …