Akselrad examines relations between media and time, human augmentation, and ethics guiding interactions between the human body and digital media.
Doctoral Students — Journalism, Media and Culture
Caitlin Burke
Burke is interested in user experience design, design ethics, and human-computer interaction.
Sanna Ali
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.
Andrew Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald’s interests focus on media and democratic theory, with a specific focus on the intersection of national security discourse and democratic legitimacy.
Jeffrey Nagy
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 Ross
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 Weiland
Morgan N. Weiland is the Executive Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, where she received her JD in 2015. She is in the process of completing the first joint degree program between SLS and Stanford’s Communication Department, where she is a PhD candidate. Her dissertation investigates the structural role of speech platforms like Facebook and Twitter in the public sphere to understand what responsibilities these companies have to the public, and what policies ought to be enacted to ensure both free expression and accountability.
Weiland was a Lecturer in Law at SLS during the 2017-18 academic year, when she developed and taught a new course about platforms, law, and ethics with Professor Barbara van Schewick. She is also a Graduate Fellow at SLS’s Center for Internet & Society. She clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals during the 2018-19 term. She is admitted to the California Bar.
