Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Ph.D.

jstromer@syr.edu


Full Professor

Syracuse University

Year of PhD: 2002

Country: United States (New York)

About Me:

Jenny has been studying “social media” since before it was called social media, studying online interaction and strategic communication in a variety of contexts, including political forums and online games. She has published over 50 journal articles, proceedings, and book chapters.

Her award-winning book, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age (Oxford University Press), provides a history of presidential campaigns between 1996 and 2016 as they have adopted and adapted to digital communication technologies.

She and her colleagues, Jeff Hemsley and Patricia Rossini, recently received a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grant for their collaborative research project, Illuminating 2020, which is studying the 2020 presidential campaign by collecting and algorithmically classifying the candidates’ and public’s postings and paid ads on social media.

She is currently co-PI on a Twitter Conversational Health grant to study various dimensions of problematic conversation on the platform, and on a WhatsApp grant to study political misinformation in Brazil and the United States. She has recently begun to study conspiracy theories and ways to reduce conspiracy thinking using a variety of techniques.

Research Interests

Campaigns And Elections

Social Media

Misinformation

Conspiracy Theories

Twitter

Facebook

Digital Political Participation

Political Discussion

Countries of Interest

United States