Social Media & Society Cluster (SMS)

The Social Media & Society Cluster is a transdisciplinary unit within Rutgers School of Communication and Information that supports research extending across the boundaries of the i-School, communication, and media studies programs within the School. For more information and examples of members' research, see the Cluster website.

Faculty Members

Mark Aakhus

Mark Aakhus

Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Communication

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Administration

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Louise Barkhuus

Visiting Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science

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Jack Bratich

Professor of Journalism and Media Studies

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Mary Chayko

Mary Chayko

Distinguished Teaching Professor of Communication and Information and Director of Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty Fellow in Residence for the Honors College at Rutgers University

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Kaitlin L. Costello

Associate Professor of Library and Information Science

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Marya L. Doerfel

Professor of Communication and Chair of Communication

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Suchinthi Fernando

Assistant Teaching Professor of Library and Information Science

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Sophia Fu

J. Sophia Fu

Assistant Professor of Communication

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Kiran Garimella

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science

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David Greenberg

Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and of History

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Alexa Hepburn

Research Professor of Communication

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Shagun Jhaver

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science

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Susan Keith

Susan Keith

Associate Dean for Programs and Professor of Journalism and Media Studies

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Sunyoung Kim

Sunyoung Kim

Associate Professor of Library and Information Science

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Jeff Lane

Jeffrey Lane

Associate Professor of Communication

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Regina Marchi

Professor of Journalism and Media Studies

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Katherine-Ognyanova

Katherine (Katya) Ognyanova

Associate Professor of Communication

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John Pavlik

John V. Pavlik

Professor of Journalism and Media Studies

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Caitlin Petre

Caitlin Petre

Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies

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marie_radford

Marie L. Radford

Professor of Library and Information Science

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Rebecca Reynolds

Rebecca Reynolds

Chair and Associate Professor of Library and Information Science

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Yanaira Rivera

Yonaira Rivera

Assistant Professor of Communication

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Sarah Shugars

Assistant Professor of Communication

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Vivek Singh

Vivek K. Singh

Associate Professor of Library and Information Science

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Sharon Stoerger

Assistant Dean for Programs and Assessment

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Joyce Valenza

Joyce Kasman Valenza

Associate Teaching Professor of Library and Information Science

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Matthew Weber

Associate Professor of Communication

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Khadijah White

Khadijah Costley White

Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies

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Todd Wolfson

Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and Co-Director of the MIC Center

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