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Sarah Sobieraj, PhD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Tufts University and a Faculty Associate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is an expert in US political culture, extreme incivility, digital abuse and harassment, and the mediated information environment. Her recent book, "Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy" (Oxford University Press, 2020), which examines the impact of identity-based digital abuse on women’s participation in political discourse was honored with the Roderick P. Hart Outstanding Book Award from the Political Communication Division of the National Communication Association in 2022 and the Best Book Award from the Communications, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association in 2021. She is also the author of "The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility" (Oxford University Press, 2014), with Jeff Berry and "Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism" (NYU Press, 2011). Sobieraj also edited "A Crisis of Civility?: Political Discourse and Its Discontents" with Rob Boatright, Danna Young, and Tim Schaffer (Routledge, 2019). And the "Oxford Handbook oof Digital Media Sociology" with Deana Rohlinger (Oxford University Press 2022). Sobieraj’s most recent journal articles can be found in Information, Communication & Society, Social Problems, PS: Political Science & Politics, Poetics, Political Communication, and Sociological Theory. Her work has been featured in venues such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Politico, Vox, CNN, PBS, NPR, the American Prospect, National Review, the Atlantic, Pacific Standard, and Salon. Sobieraj serves on the advisory board of the Social Science Research Council’s Disinformation Research Mapping Initiative and is a member of the National Institute for Civil Discourse Research Network.
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