PIL Collaborations

• Founder and Director
• Principal investigator on PIL’s latest research study/report( July 2024): “How information worlds shape our response to climate change”
• Principal investigator on series of 14 groundbreaking research studies conducted between 2008-2024 with a collective sample of 25,000 undergraduates from U.S. colleges and universities as well as members of the general public living in the U.S.
• 2023 Inside Higher Ed opinion essay, “Getting a grip on ChatGPT,” co-author with Barbara Fister
• 2021 Provocation Series essay, “Reading in the Age of Distrust,” author

Research Interests

Information literacy, digital literacy, news literacy, reading, algorithms, lifelong learning, hope

Affiliations

Australia PIL InfoLit Tour: Sydney, Canberra, and Brisbane, October – November 2024
Fulbright Program, Fulbright Specialist Scholar, 2023-2026
Misinformation & Media Literacy Study, International Advisory Board, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Visiting Research Scholar and Fellow appointments: Harvard Graduate School of Education (2019/20), University of Pittsburgh (2018/19), Purdue University (2017/18), University of Nebraska (2016/17), Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard (2011/13), Stanford University (1996/97)
metaLAB (at) Harvard, Senior Researcher, 2015 – 2020
Education: University of California at Berkeley, PhD; University of California at Berkeley, MLIS; Boston University, MS Journalism; University of California at Berkeley, BA Rhetoric

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