Alia ElKattan
Credentials: Research Fellow
Position title: PhD candidate, New York University
Email: alia.elkattan@nyu.edu

Alia is a PhD candidate at NYU, where she researches how technology mediates how we learn about and engage with politics, with a focus on emerging social media platforms and AI technologies. As co-founder of Decifer Studio, she also researches how literacy interventions can drive more responsible, critical interactions with emerging tech, particularly amongst young people, and builds games and interactive explainers to do so. Alia is based at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP), and is a visiting PhD candidate at the Distributed and Interactive Systems Lab at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, the Dutch research institute for math and computer science. During her PhD, she has also spent time at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and The Washington Post’s Lede Lab.