Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more

Digital disinformation is changing society, but the societal 3 C's (class, community, and context) are changing disinformation, too. Read more

McCourt Institute's “Web3 &” series continues, taking a specific look at digital democracy. The second event in the series will address the state of digital democracy in our current and future web paradigms, featuring alum Jen Schradie. Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this November! Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this October! Read more

Our alum Jen Schradie published this as chapter 28 in Part V Social Inequalities in the Digital Landscape of The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology. Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this September! Read more

The 119th American Sociology Association annual meeting took place in Los Angeles on August 5-9. Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this August! Read more

L'Obs interviewed Jen Schradie on the far right's organization to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read more

Alumni Christo Sims and Jen Schradie presented at the International Communication Association's 2022 conference. Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this June! Read more

Alum Jen Schradie is interviewed in Le Monde about shootings in America targeting African Americans and Latin Americans.

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In this short teaser for her book, The Revolution That Wasn't, Jen Schradie asks whether the internet is conservative. Read more

Grégoire Barbey intervews alum Jen Schradie for Heidi.news on how the internet is dominated by conservative ideology. Read more

Jen Schradie demonstrates that the Web benefits conservative messages. Read more

Interview with researcher Jen Schradie. Read more

Jen Schradie explains how digital democracy is functioning in France this election cycle for the Conversation. Read more

Olivier Clairouin interviews Jen Schradie for Le Monde on whether the Right has won the fight for the internet in advance of the 2022 elections. Read more

Ukrainians are rallying global support via social media. But don’t call it a TikTok war, writes alum Jen Schradie for the Washington Post. Read more

Jen Schradie's work is featured in A Section of Now: Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention. Read more

Jen Schradie joins The Debate on France 24 to talk about the impact a year later of the Capitol insurrection. Read more

Listen to Jen Schradie in conversation with Xavier de la Porte on France Inter on Why the Internet Favors the Right. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! Read more

Jen Schradie's co-authored article on digital inequlities and content production was published in the Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media.  Read more

Jen Schradie was invited as a guest speaker in 'The Debate'. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this February! Read more

Jen Schradie recently appeared on France 24 to discuss regulating Big Tech companies. Read more

Jen Schradie went on The Current podcast to discuss the recent insurrection in the US Capitol. Read more

Jen Shradie's book was reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology! Read more

Jen Schradie recently wrote a guest piece for Selected by Sesamers on the 2020 US Election. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this November! Read more

Jen Schradie weighs in on France 24, discussing the first U.S presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Read more

Jen Schradie recently published an academic article titled "The Great Equalizer Reproduces Inequality: How the Digital Divide Is a Class Power Divide." Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this August! Read more

Alum Jen Schradie's article “The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action” was recognized in the CITAMS 2020 awards. Read more

Jen Schradie's book receives a fantastic review from Briana Trifiro. Read more

"The “Eye of the Hurricane” Paradox: An Unexpected and Unequal Rise of Well-Being During the Covid-19 Lockdown in France" was published by a team of authors in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie's book receives a stunning review from David Karpf. Read more

Nicolas Celnik interviews alum Jen Schradie on "Si je devais structurer un mouvement social pendant une pandémie…" Read more

"How disruptive is Covid-19 to everyday life? How is the French population experiencing the lockdown?"  Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie claims Twitter favors the right, contradicting President Trump's statement that it favors the left.  Read more

Alum Jen Schradie co-authored a report that explores how French society has coped with the first two weeks of the lockdown. Read more

Watch Jen Schradie speak about digital technologies and their potential threats during a round table discussion at Sciences Po in April 2019. Read more

Video now available from BCNM alum Jen Schradie's CITRIS Research Exchange seminar 'The Revolution That Wasn't!' Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more

Jen Schradie was recently interviewed in "The Data Driving Democracy," a research paper by Christina Couch. Read more

Jen Schradie was the latest guest on the Inkwell: Authors and Artists online discussion board. Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty and alumni in February 2020! Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie's latest book receives an excellent review from Emily Drabinski in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie was featured on French-language site Usbek+Rica. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie's latest book receives an excellent review from Barbara Fister. Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni in January 2020! Read more

Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni! Read more

Schradie recently went on the WashingTech Policy Podcast with Joe Miller to talk about her experience with "social media bias". Read more

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg, Alex Saum, Claudia von Vacano and Jacob Gaboury; and alumni Trevor Paglen, Bo Ruberg, Alenda Chang and Jen Schradie. Read more

If you've been wondering "Have conservative groups mastered the art of internet activism?", Jen Schradie has the answer! Read more

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal.  Read more

More in the media from faculty Abigail De Kosnik, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ken Goldberg, and Tom McEnaney; and alumni Jenni Higgs, Andrea Horbinski, Jane McGonigal, Trevor Paglen, Ritwik Banerji and Jen Schradie.  Read more

BCNM Alum Jen Schradie and digital activism was featured on KPFA's Against the Grain! Read more

Richard John's article "Why the Left Is Losing the Information Age" showcases Schradie's research on digital activism and inequality. Read more

The American Sociological Association's 2019 theme is "Engaging Social Justice for a Better World" Read more

Alum Jen Schradie spoke on France 24 on whether Democrats can mobilize their base for 2020. Read more

Vox talks to Jen about "Why conservatives are winning the internet." The Revolution That Wasn't ​explains why digital activism helps conservatives more than liberals. Read more

Jen discusses her book The Revolution That Wasn't in North Carolina, where much of her research was based. Read more

Jen Schradie's The Revolution That Wasn't is featured in Wired's "14 Must-Read Books of the Summer." Read more

Jen Schradie published "Conservatives Use Social Media to Move Their Agendas Much More Than Liberals Do" in Newsweek. Read more

Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more

Jen's panel focused on People-Power vs. Populism. Read more

Check out the great panels our alumni are part of at the International Communications Association 2019 Conference! Read more

Join Jen Schradie on April 16, 2019 at 5pm at the Sciences Po symposium! Read more

The Society Pages features allum Jen Schradie's research on the digital activism gap. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie presents her new book at #ecnEHESS at l'Institut des Systèmes Complexes Read more

If you're in Paris on Thursday, March 14th, join Jen Schradie for a discussion on digital activism! Read more

Schradie's studies of digital democracy indicate a large class and race based gap in digital activism in the US. Read more

Jen Schradie published her findings on the class and race gap in the digital democracy for the LSE US Centre. Read more

The authors challenge the assumption that youth have an intuitive understanding of technology, pointing to the impact of class on digital accessibility. Read more

The Data & Democracy conference in Paris invited Jen Schradie as one of their panelists. Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie was interviewed by Digital Society (article in French) Read more

Alum Jen Schradie and an international team of collaborators won a European Commission Grant to study online hate speech against Muslims Read more

Our alumni present their exceptional scholarship at the International Communication Association 2018 Conference. Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie will be the keynote speaker for the 2018 Media Sociology Preconference taking place in August. Read more

Alum Jen Schradie published an article on the North Carolina Moral Monday protests in Social Media & Society Read more

BCNM Alum Jen Schradie gave a talk, "The Digital Activism Gap: Social Media, Social Movements and Social Class," at Cal! Read more

Schradie published "The Digital Activism Gap" in Social Problems Read more

Jen Schradie received her PhD from Berkeley and recently published Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture, which can be bought on Amazon. Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie spoke with CNN about the #MeToo movement, discussing effective mobilization and action through a digital medium. Read more

Jen Schradie, BCNM alum and sociologist with the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, discussed "hashtag activism" and the possibility of #MeToo becoming a part of a larger movement.  Read more

BCNM alumna Jen Schradie critiques how the press sensationalized protests in Berkeley. Read more

We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students Read more

BCNM was excited to celebrate the research of its graduating Ph.D. candidates on Thursday, April 10th, at its Student Research Presentations Reception. Read more

"Does this satire simply reflect Silicon Valley sexism or contribute to it?" Read more

Jen Schradie's (Sociology) article on the impact of income inequality on Big Data appears on pbs.org Read more

Session A, May 28 - July 3, 2013 Read more

The Sociology Program of the NSF awards grants that have "theoretically focused empirical investigation aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes" Read more