Alice Marwick (PhD, New York University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Media Law and Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Faculty Advisor to the Media Manipulation Initiative at the Data & Society Research Institute. She researches the social, political, and cultural implications of popular social media technologies. In 2017, she co-authored Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online, a flagship report examining far-right online subcultures and their use of social media to spread misinformation, for which she was named one of 2017’s Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. Her research has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Today Show, NPR, and CNN, among other venues. She is the author of Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age (Yale 2013), which draws from ethnographic fieldwork in the San Francisco tech scene to examine how people seek social status through attention and visibility online and co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Social Media (Sage 2017). Her current book project examines how the networked nature of online privacy disproportionately impacts marginalized individuals in terms of gender, race, and socio-economic status.