Alice Marwick

Alice E. Marwick is the director of research at Data & Society. She is a qualitative social scientist who researches the social, political, and cultural implications of popular social media technologies. Her most recent book, The Private is Political: Networked Privacy on Social Media (Yale 2023), examines how the networked nature of online privacy disproportionately impacts members of marginalized communities. In 2017, Alice co-authored Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online, a flagship Data & Society report examining the far-right use of social media to spread disinformation. She also authored Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age (Yale 2013), an ethnographic study of the San Francisco tech scene, and was co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Social Media (Sage 2017). She is currently writing her third book, on online radicalization, supported by an Andrew Carnegie fellowship.  Alice was previously associate professor of communication and principal researcher and co-founder of the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the University of North Carolina, and Microsoft visiting professor at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. She holds a PhD in media, culture, and communication from New York University, a MA in communication from the University of Washington, and a BA from Wellesley College.