Researcher and professor/lecturer in communication, information, and journalism. Formerly at Columbia University (http://towcenter.org/academics/jonathan-albright/) Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/jalbright), and Elon University in North Carolina. I use quantitative, qualitative, and computational methods to study media, culture, and politics. My research area includes cross-platform analyses of socially-mediated events, digital forensics, and thematic data visualization to understand the impact of dis/misinformation and propaganda, developer/platform accountability, digital politics, advertising and tracking technologies, and the analysis of controversies using computational social science and open source intelligence methods.
Finalist, International Data Journalism Awards (2012, 2018), Visiting Researcher, Dept of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (2011)