Press

• “College Students Are Using ‘No Contact Orders’ to Block Each Other in Real Life” The Wall Street Journal (June 2025)
• “The Mangione Trial: Politics and appearance” BBC News Podcasts (May 2025)
• “Dem attorneys general use new media to mount Trump resistance” The Hill (April 2025). Also shared on KTLA-5 News.
• “Is Social Media a Valid Way for Young People to Express Their Political Views?” Columbia News (January 2025)
• “Is the golden age of TikTok already over?” Dazed (January 2025)
• “Not Your Mother’s Activism: Young Women’s Political Expression on Social Media” Op-ed in Ms Magazine (December 2024)
• “3 reasons behind the unsettling glorification of Luigi Mangione” CBC News (December 2024)
• “From blogging to Sidechat: A short history of social networking at Columbia” Columbia Spectator (December 2024)
• “Trump’s success among young men illustrates influence of online ‘manosphere’” PBS NewsHour (November 2024)
• “How Harris won at TikTok but lost the election” The Washington Post (November 2024). Also published in The Boston Globe.
• “What Democrats don’t understand about Joe Rogan” POLITICO (November 2024)
• “Why GenZ’s Online Politics Matters” Teachers College Newsroom (November 2024)
• “Twitter and TikTok User’s Election Projections Are Completely Warped” Business Insider (November 2024)
• “How Social Media Affects the Teenage Brain” Columbia Magazine (October 2024)
• “John McEntee and Walter Masterson are flint and steel on TikTok” The Washington Post (September 2024)
• “SNF Brain Insight Lecture Focuses on the Adolescent Brain” The National Herald (September 2024)
• “5 Ways to Integrate the 2024 Election into the Classroom” Teachers College Newsroom (September 2024)
• “A guerra entre Donald Trump e Kamala Harris pela geração Z [The war between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris for generation Z]” Universo Online, Brazil (August 2024)
• “In the real world Biden and Trump are enemies. But on TikTok? Be still my beating heart” The Boston Globe (July 2024)
• “NY may have passed new laws making social media less addictive for kids, but real change is still a ways off” New York Daily News (June 2024)
• “TikTok is under intense scrutiny when it comes to U.S. politics, but candidates can’t afford to stay away” The Globe and Mail, Canada (June 2024)
• “Trump vs. Biden: Wer gewinnt auf TikTok?” [Trump vs. Biden: Who wins on TikTok?] ZDF, Germany (June 2024)
• “Is TikTok breaking young voters’ brains?” Vox (June 2024)
• “Divest-or-Ban Law Rattles TikTok Influencers Pushing Pro-Biden Content” Bloomberg (April 2024)
• “Putting the Freak-out Over Social Media and Kids’ Mental Health in Historical Context” Education Week (April 2024)
• “A Closer Look TC’s Impact During New York Civic Learning Week” Teachers College Newsroom (April 2024)
• “Potential TikTok ban comes as app’s influence on Wisconsin elections grows” The Badger Herald (April 2024)
• “Students Think Social Media Is Fine, But Teachers See a Mental Health Minefield” Education Week (March 2024)
• “COVID’s lost generation: Isolation, anxiety present challenges to NYC school kids” New York Daily News (December 2023)
• “Young people support Gaza’s. Critics blame TikTok.” The Washington Post (November 2023)
• “TikTok’s Ron DeSantis obsession” POLITICO (November 2023)
• “Nukefluencers are on a quest to push clean power from reactors” Bloomberg (October 2023)
• “Even artificial intelligence optimists are concerned about the risks of visual misinformation” Teachers College News (October 2023)
• “Teens much more likely to believe online conspiracy claims than adults” The Guardian (August 2023)
• “Politicians too scared to take on tech firms, says former senior Met officer” The Guardian (August 2023)
• “Mr. Handsome, Ayusopasión y el ‘teamfacha’: por qué los memes en política son cada vez más importantes [Mr. Handsome, Ayusopasión and the ‘teamfacha’: why memes in politics are increasingly important]” El Pais, Spain (June 2023)
• “TikTok—banned or not, it’s probably here to stay, an Ars Frontiers 2023 recap” Ars Technica (May 2023)
• “How anonymous social media apps like Yik Yak can empower racist trolls” PBS NewsHour (April 2023)
• “This dissident uses Chinese-owned TikTok to criticize China’s government” The Washington Post (March 2023)
• “TikTok ban would be ‘a slap in the face’ to young Democratic voters, activists warn” NBC News (March 2023)
• “Inside TikTok’s Fight to Avoid a US Ban” Bloomberg (March 2023)
• “Ban TikTok? Yes, But Congress Needs to Explain Why” Bloomberg Opinion (March 2023)
• “At Ticketmaster Hearing, Taylor Swift Lyrics Were the Headliner” The New York Times (January 2023)
• “‘I-told-you-so moment’: Young voter advocates urge parties to take them seriously after midterms” USA Today (November 2022)
• “Activists call for civility in abortion debate” ABC News Live Prime (November 2022)
• “‘Speaking the language of TikTok’: Politicians court young voters by using Gen Z humor online“ USA Today (July 2022)
• “What are abortion code words even for?” The Atlantic (July 2022).
• “TikTok ‘frog army’ stunt could have grave consequences, experts warn” The Guardian (July 2022). Also reprinted in GEO [France].
• “Could John Fetterman shitpost his way to the Senate?” The Daily Beast (July 2022)
• “Gen Z activists are influencing the abortion debate on TikTok” The Washington Post (June 2022) 
• “Alexandra Hunt is on OnlyFans and running for Congress” Business Insider (May 2022)
• “Securing the TikTok vote” The New York Times (March 2022)
• “Ukraine fights back on TikTok, where war is fought with memes and misinformation” NBC News (March 2022)
• “Dans la guerre des images en Ukraine, avantage Zelensky [In the war of images in Ukraine, Zelensky has the advantage]” Le Temps, Switzerland (March 2022)
• “Wilkommen im WarTok [Welcome to WarTok]” Falter, Austria (March 2022)
• “Astroworld disaster fuels wave of satanic conspiracy theories on TikTok” The Guardian (November 2021)
• “What Colleges Should Know About the New Yik Yak” The Chronicle of Higher Education (August 2021)
• “Savvy TikTok campaigns give NDP an edge with Gen Z voters” The Toronto Star, Canada (August 2021)
• “Forget Critical Race Theory in the Classroom. Kids Are Learning About Race on TikTok” EdSurge (July 2021)
• “TikTok’s Next Big Gen Z Trend Might Be Viral Protests” Newsweek (July 2021)
• “Apply liberally: the TikTok teens fighting political battles with makeup” The Guardian (March 2021)
• “Teachers Act Like We’re Robots’: What teens are saying on TikTok about online learning” Teachers College Newsroom (March 2021)
• “How to Talk About Social Media and the Capitol Insurrection: A Guide for Teachers” Education Week (January 2021)
• “John King and Steve Kornacki: TikTok is swooning over a new kind of celebrity: election analysts” CNN (November 2020)
• “‘Politics on TikTok is anything but boring’: Here’s how Gen Z TikTokers are already influencing the election” CNN (November 2020)
• “Could TikTok be the thing that finally gets young voters to the polls?” mic.com (October 2020)
• “The TikTok Teens Trying to Meme the Vote” WIRED (October 2020) 
• “Trumped-up anxiety? On TikTok, Americans tell Canadians: ‘Please, invade us’” The Toronto Star, Canada (October 2020)
• “How to Declutter your Digital Life”. The New York Times (September 2020).
• “Das mächtige Netzwerk” [The Mighty Network]. Die Zeit, Germany (August 2020).
• “Why You Can’t Look Away From TikTok” OneZero (August 2020).
• “Minnesota lawmaker scours TikTok for young voters” The Star Tribune (August 2020)
• “Should TikTok Be Banned?” Al Jazeera. Video interview for Start Here (August 2020).
• “‘Tiktokers’ y ‘kpopers’ se adentran en la arena política” [TikTok Users and K-Pop Fans Enter the Political Arena], El Pais, Spain (July 2020). 
• “Anul TikTok” [The Year of TikTok]. DoR Concentrat, Romania (July 2020).
• “TikTok Is Shaping Politics. But How?” Interview in The New York Times (June 2020). Also reprinted in Forbes India.
• “El COVID no existe: entendiendo la propagación de rumores” [COVID Doesn’t Exist: Understanding the Spread of Misinformation], Animal Político, Mexico (June 2020)
• “A Call for New York State to Dramatically Improve Media Literacy Education” TC Newsroom (June 2020)
• “Three Borders, One War, & Generation TikTok” VICE News. Also aired on VICE on Showtime (May 2020)
• “How Coronavirus is Finally Fulfilling the Internet’s Promise” VICE News (April 2020)
• “Reality Check: Using Media Literacy to Push Back on Fake News” TC Newsroom (April 2020)
• “Ruminate on This: A game to help young news consumers avoid getting… LAMBOOZLED!” TC Newsroom (April 2020)
• “N.Y. Creates ‘Containment Zone’ Limiting Large Gatherings in New Rochelle”. The New York Times (March 2020)
• “How a ban on pro-Trump patterns unraveled the online knitting world” MIT Technology Review (March 2020)
• “OP-ED: Youth of color and young women use social media the most, so why are most digital technology developers white men?” The Hechinger Report (January 2020)