Social Media Lab
The Stanford Social Media Lab works on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media. The team specializes in using computational linguistics and behavioral experiments to understand how the words we use can reveal psychological and social dynamics, such as deception and trust, emotional dynamics, and relationships.
Initiatives from the Stanford Social Media Lab
Digital Strength Initiative
The Digital Strength Initiative teaches people how to “flex” their digital strength by empowering them with the skills and autonomy to determine the authenticity of online information sources.
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The Stanford Adolescents and Social Media Initiative
The Adolescents and Social Media Initiative uses evidence from the scientific literature to guide our understanding of the relationships between adolescents, social media and their well-being.
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Leadership
Jeff Hancock
Director, Social Media Lab
Professor in the Department of Communication
Jeff Hancock is founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab and is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Professor Hancock and his group work on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media.
Sunny Xun Liu
Associate Director at Stanford Social Media Lab
Social Science Research Scientist
Sunny Xun Liu is a Social Science Research Scientist and Associate Director at Stanford Social Media Lab. Liu earned her Ph.D. in Mass Communication and Media from Michigan State University. Her research focuses on the social and psychological effects of social media and AI, social media and well-being, and how the design of social robots impact psychological perceptions.
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Chenyan Jia
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2020 US election
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Nature Human Behavior,
April 13, 2023
Ryan C Moore, Ross Dahlke, Jeffrey T Hancock
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The Consumption of Pink Slime Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, and Why?
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April 13, 2023
Ryan Moore, Ross Dahlke, Priyanjana Bengani, Jeffrey Hancock
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Designing misinformation interventions for all: Perspectives from AAPI, Black, Latino, and Native American community leaders on misinformation educational efforts
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Misinformation Review,
February 7, 2023
Angela Y Lee, Ryan C Moore, Jeffrey T Hancock
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PIE Metrics: Quantifying the Systematic Bias in the Ephemerality and Inaccessibility of Web Scraping Content from URL-Logged Web-Browsing Digital Trace Data
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February 1, 2023
Ross Dahlke, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric, Jeffrey Hancock