Doctoral Students — Journalism, Media and Culture

Akselrad examines relations between media and time, human augmentation, and ethics guiding interactions between the human body and digital media.

Ali is interested in politics of platforms and the civic good – specifically, she studies privatization of digitally-supported infrastructure and its implications on inequalities of access and distribution.

Fitzgerald’s interests focus on media and democratic theory, with a specific focus on the intersection of national security discourse and democratic legitimacy.

Katsanevas takes a critical approach to blending journalism and technology studies. He seeks to understand how technology in journalism can reveal – and conceal – structures of power distribution.

Nagy’s research interests include the history of interfaces, technological rhetorics and the expression of political and social values in media design, and the rearticulation of emergent technologies by end user populations.

Reagan is interested in the intersections of race, gender, and new media and technology. She is also interested in understanding how new technology might be used to disrupt anti-Black racism.

Morgan N. Weiland is an attorney and PhD candidate at Stanford University specializing in speech, press, and technology law and ethics. She is in the process of completing the first joint degree program between Stanford Law School, where she received her JD in 2015, and Stanford’s Communication Department, where she is a PhD candidate. She is also a Graduate Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society. She is admitted to the California Bar.

Zou is interested in critical theory and cultural studies, particularly issues related to the politics of representation, the workings of ideology, and the affective dimension of digital media production and user participation.