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World Ranking
5465
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Overview

Alice E. Marwick is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with an emphasis on sociology and political science, communication, and artificial intelligence. The scientist's work also spans literature and literary theory as well as gender studies.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression

Marwick has published extensively, with a notable presence in venues such as UNC Libraries, AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, Social Media + Society, Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, and the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.

Their recent papers include:

  • "False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right" (2020), published in Science
  • "Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement" (2021), published in Social Media + Society
  • "Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics" (2021), published in Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • "Constructing alternative facts: Populist expertise and the QAnon conspiracy" (2022), published in New Media & Society
  • "Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data" (2020), published in Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Marwick multiple times include Katherine Furl, William Clyde Partin, Deen Freelon, Daniel Kreiss, and Rachel Kuo.

Marwick has contributed to book publications as well, notably having a book titled "The Private Is Political" released by Yale University Press in 2023.

Among the honors received is the Andrew Carnegie Fellow award, granted in 2020.

Best Publications

  • I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience

    Alice E. Marwick;danah boyd

  • Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the Attention Economy

    Alice E. Marwick

  • Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online

    Becca Lewis;Alice E. Marwick

  • To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter

    Alice Marwick;danah boyd

  • Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media

    Alice E Marwick;danah boyd

  • The Public Domain: Surveillance in Everyday Life

    Alice Marwick

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Media

    Jean Burgess;Alice Marwick;Thomas Poell

  • Status Update

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  • Drinking male tears: language, the manosphere, and networked harassment

    Alice E. Marwick;Robyn Caplan

  • “What Can I Really Do?” Explaining the Privacy Paradox with Online Apathy

    Eszter Hargittai;Alice Marwick

  • “There Isn't Wifi in Heaven!” Negotiating Visibility on Facebook Memorial Pages

    Alice Marwick;Nicole B. Ellison

  • WHY DO PEOPLE SHARE FAKE NEWS? A SOCIOTECHNICAL MODEL OF MEDIA EFFECTS

    Alice E. Marwick

  • To catch a predator? The MySpace moral panic

    Alice E Marwick

  • Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies

    Danah Boyd;Alice. E Marwick

  • You May Know Me from YouTube: (Micro-)Celebrity in Social Media

    Alice E. Marwick

  • False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right.

    Deen Freelon;Alice Marwick;Daniel Kreiss

  • ‘It's just drama’: teen perspectives on conflict and aggression in a networked era

    Alice Marwick;danah boyd

  • Privacy, Poverty, and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans

    Mary Madden;Michele E. Gilman;Karen Levy;Alice Marwick

  • Status update: Celebrity, publicity and self-branding in Web 2.0

    Alice E. Marwick

  • Youth, Privacy and Reputation (Literature Review)

    Alice E. Marwick;Diego Murgia-Diaz;John G. Palfrey

  • Performing a Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World

    Mikaela Pitcan;Mikaela Pitcan;Alice E. Marwick;Alice E. Marwick;danah boyd

Frequent Co-Authors

danah boyd
danah boyd Microsoft (United States)
Eszter Hargittai
Eszter Hargittai University of Zurich
Jean Burgess
Jean Burgess Queensland University of Technology
Nicole B. Ellison
Nicole B. Ellison University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ralph Hertwig
Ralph Hertwig Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Ullrich K. H. Ecker University of Western Australia
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers University of North Texas
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University

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