Doctoral Students — Journalism, Media and Culture
Daniel Akselrad
daniel.akselrad@stanford.edu
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Daniel works at the intersection of technology, rhetoric, and organizations, using historical and ethnographic methods to study language, ideology, and organizational culture. He has used this lens to examine distributed decision-making in fighter jet cockpits, the role of euphemism in Nazi bureaucracy, and the internal communications of the global cigarette industry.
Rachel Bergmann
Bergmann uses interpretive and archival methods to deeply and critically contextualize contemporary information technologies. Her research interests include histories of computing, feminist science and technology studies, and the cultural politics of AI and algorithmic systems.
Caitlin Burke
Burke is interested in user experience design, design ethics, and human-computer interaction.
Elizabeth Fetterolf
elizfett@stanford.edu
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Fetterolf is interested in how care work technologies shape and are shaped by the ongoing crisis of care in the US, particularly as this relates to workplace and intimate surveillance.
Tomás Guarna
Guarna is interested in the new meanings of citizenship, trust, and legitimacy in the digital public sphere.
Rebecca Lewis
Becca Lewis researches ideological and social histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Marijn Mado
Mado studies media literacy education. She uses ethnographic methods to explore the practices and epistemological assumptions that underlie the design and teaching of media literacy programs.
Morgan Weiland
mweiland@stanford.edu (CV)
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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.