Center for CMC

People

Research on CMC and social media is carried out by people in various roles and academic disciplines across Indiana University, as well as by scholars affiliated with IU.

Fellows are presently working and/or studying at IU; they include faculty, students, Center staff, and other scholars working at or visiting IU at the present time. Center Fellows represent 11 different units: Anthropology, Business, Communication and Culture, Education, Informatics, Information Science, Instructional Systems Technology, Journalism, Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Telecommunications.1

Affiliates are CMC scholars who have a connection to IU but are located at other institutions. They include former IU students, former faculty, former visiting scholars, and non-IU scholars who collaborate with Center Fellows. Affiliates are located in 19 countries (Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Wales, and the US) and include a number of internationally-known researchers.

Learn more about our Fellows and Affiliates by following the links below.

Fellows

Center Affiliates

Center Staff

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Wei-Chu Chen
Ph.D. student in Information Science

Research interests: social networks; CMC; scholarly communication; social informatics
Contact information: chen273 at umail dot iu dot edu

Jason Yi-An Chen
Ph.D. student in Linguistics

Research interests: CMC; code-switching in CMC; metalinguistic discourse; online discourse; multimodality
Contact information: yc65 at indiana dot edu

Ashley Dainas
Assistant to the Director; Ph.D. student in Information Science, minor in Computational Linguistics

Research interests: multimodal CMC; CMDA; social media; pragmatics; reaction GIFs; internet memes

Contact information: ardainas at umail dot iu dot edu

Brad Demarest
Ph.D. student in Information Science, minor in Computational Linguistics

Research interests: CMC; scholarly communication; gender
Contact information: bdemares at indiana dot edu

Brent Hale
Ph.D. student in the Media School

Research interests: social psychology; discourse analysis; visual communication; health communication; political communication; commenting
Contact information: brjhale at umail dot iu dot edu
Website

Holly Lopez Long
Assistant to the Director; Ph.D. student in Information Science

Research interests: CMC; discourse analysis; multimodality; channel mixing and switching; artificial intelligence
Contact information: hdlopezl

Juan Fernando Maestre
Ph.D. (c) in Informatics (HCI / Health Informatics track)

Research interests: HCI, stigma, computer-mediated social support, health
Contact information: jmaestre (at) indiana (dot) edu
Website

Zihang Shao
Ph.D. student in Instructional Systems Technology, minor in Information Science

Research interests: technology-enhanced learning solutions
Contact information: zihshao at indiana dot edu

Ying Tang
Visiting Scholar, Department of Informatics

Research interests: CMC; social media; information seeking and use; online communities; learning in mediated environments
Contact information: yt11 at iu dot edu
Website

Shuo Tang
Ph.D. student in Journalism in the Media School

Research interests: social media; computer-mediated communication; political communication; journalism; political participation; China; cross-national study
Contact information: shuotang at iu dot edu

Andrew Tsou
Website Manager; Ph.D. student in Information Science

Research interests: CMC; scholarly communication
Contact information: atsou at indiana dot edu

Chenwei Zhang
Ph.D. student in Information Science

Research interests: social media mining; information retrieval; social network analysis; scholarly communication
Contact information: zhang334 at indiana dot edu
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