Tanja Aitamurto, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at UIC. She examines new media technologies for empowering, connecting, and informing people.
Peter Royal is a PhD student in the communication department at UIC. He is interested in the social and ethical implications of technology for communication, including human-machine communication, political communication, and misinformation and disinformation. He has examined the framing of social issues in traditional and social media, the role of technology in deliberation about social issues, and users’ perceptions of emerging technologies.
Krysten Stein is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication and a graduate concentrator in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department of Black Studies at UIC. She examines how digitally mediated popular culture is intertwined with systems of power, e.g. through access to information and representations, particularly among systematically excluded populations.
Elisa Kondo Rudolph is an MA student in the Department of Communication at UIC. She is interested in questions in environmental communication, such as visual and deliberative discourses about solar power.
Ashwini Naik is a PhD student at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at UIC. She is interested in human-computer interaction in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality environments.
Niloufar Hajirahimikalhroudi is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at UIC. She is interested in digital culture, particularly digital memory practices as compared to analog ones.
Kendall Tyson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on the intersection of environmental activism and hybrid media.
Piper Howard is an undergraduate student majoring in communication. She is interested in augmented reality as an informative platform.