Alice Marwick

Alice Marwick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work examines the impact of the large audiences made possible by social media on individuals and communities from a social, cultural, and legal perspective. She is the author of Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age (Yale 2013), an ethnographic study of the San Francisco tech scene which examines how people seek social status through attention and visibility online. Current research interests include the impact of socio-economic status on privacy practices; data-mining and social media; gendered online harassment; and internet celebrity. Marwick was previously 2016-2017 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute and Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies and the Director of the McGannon Center for Communication Research at Fordham University. She has written for popular publications such as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and The Guardian in addition to academic publications. Alice has a PhD from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University.