Doctoral Students — Political Communication
Catherine Chen
Chen is interested in political psychology, especially the role of ideology and partisanship in decision making.
Matthew DeButts
Matt is interested in how institutions get people to believe things, especially in China and the United States (media, politics, beliefs).
Anna Gibson
Gibson is interested in how labor, especially civic labor, is practiced through digital platforms. Her interdisciplinary approach is informed theoretically by the sociology of labor, organizational studies, and STS. Gibson’s doctoral research focuses on the strategies that content moderators use to make sense of their work in light of competing industrial logics.
Young Jee Kim
Kim studies democratic processes for risk prevention in society through deliberative practices.
Yingdan Lu
yingdan@stanford.edu
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Lu’s research focuses on digital media, political communication, global communication, and Chinese politics. She uses large-scale digital data and cutting-edge computational methods like computer vision, along with qualitative methods such as ethnography into the advancement of social scientific theory and analysis. Lu is currently on the academic job market for a faculty position starting 2023.
Natalie Neufeld
Neufeld is interested in political polarization, party loyalty, and persuasion techniques that lead to lasting attitude change.