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Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Tiernan Cahill

Research interests: Digital and generative literatures, video games and virtual worlds, incivility and harassment in online communities

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Chawannuch Chaikulngamdee

Research interests: How digital technologies can be used to promote diversity and inclusion, intercultural communication, Social media use and cultural identity formation

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Yunxiao (Caitlyn) Chen

Research interests: Computational social science, data governance & policy, ICT industry (e.g GenAI), human-agent interaction

Master's Student, Emerging Media Studies

Ziying (Darren) Chen

Research interests: Media Psychology; Communication Theory; Emotion and Media Effects; Human–Machine Communication; Algorithmic Trust; Fear, Anxiety, and Immersion; Narrative Empathy; Moral Psychology; Strategic and Crisis Communication; Trust Restoration; Entertainment and Game Studies; Affective Media; Emerging Media Technologies.

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

James Crissman

Research interests: Visual communications, information accessibility and governance, misinformation, and algorithmic injustice

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Benita Dederichs

Research interests: Human-computer interaction, virtual reality (especially cinematic virtual reality), agenda-setting within the framework of international political communication

Master's Student, Marketing Communication

Tianqi Feng

Research interests: Environmental communication, scientific misinformation and disinformation, psychological responses to media messages, computational methods, loyalty programs in the hospitality & tourism industry

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Lara Guvelioglu

Research interests: Ethical integration of AI, algorithmic curation, creative industries, and societal impact of emerging technologies.

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Nicole Hash

Research interests: Political communication

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Qixuan (Cherry) He

Research interests: Media psychology; Gender and stereotypes; Female political communication; Human–AI interaction; Experimental and computational methods.

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Yihan (Danny) Jia

Research interests: Positive media psychology, video games, virtural reality, cognitive message processing, immersive media and wellbeing

Master's Student, Emerging Media Studies

Chang Liu

Research interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Media Psychology, Digital Culture and Participatory Media, Computational Methods

Master's Student, Emerging Media Studies

Ruochen (Anastasia) Lyu

Research interests: Conversational agents, parasocial relationships with social chatbots, computational social science, and visual politics.

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Ekaterina Novozhilova

Research interests: Human-machine interaction, AI and creativity, media effects

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Lilian Naa Korkoi Tackie

Research interests: Misinformation and Disinformation in Emerging Media, Fact-Checking using A.I. and machine learning

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Jessy (Jiaxin) Wang

Research interests: Media Psychology and Mental health, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Effects of Emerging Media

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Max Wong

Research interests: Video game user-generated content, creator economy, and gender norms in online spaces.

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Jing Yang

Research interests: Political communication, computational social science, social media

Master's Student, Emerging Media Studies

Miaomiao Yang

Research interests: Video games and entertainment media studies; humanized AI-generated texts and computational creativity; human–computer interaction; marketing communication and consumer behavior.

Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies

Patrick Mohan Zhang

Research interests: The psychology of diverse media interfaces and entities

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