Alice E. Marwick, PhD (she/her) is the Director of Research at the Data & Society Research Institute, where she oversees the research portfolio and leads the Democracy in the Age of AI research theme, and a Research Associate Professor of Communication and Senior Faculty Researcher at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life, which she co-founded, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Alice studies the social and cultural implications of social media technologies and artificial intelligence, and is best known for her work on media manipulation and disinformation online; networked privacy; AI-enabled fraud and scams; and context collapse. She is currently researching youth vulnerability to AI-enabled financial fraud, and is finishing a book on how people come to believe fringe, conspiratorial, and far-right points of view on social platforms. Her second book, The Private is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media (Yale, 2023), won the APSA Information Technology & Politics Section’s Best Book Award. (Full bio)