I welcome media inquiries and requests for comment or analysis. My areas of expertise are both substantive (social influence, social technology, social media, politics, news, misinformation) and methodological (network science, computational social science, big data, survey research).
Media mentions
Selected mentions of my work in the media include:
- New York Times: We Need to Understand the Difference Between Isolation and Loneliness
- Vox News: Why no one really knows how bad Facebook’s vaccine misinformation problem is
- WIRED: Let’s Keep the Vaccine Misinformation Problem in Perspective
- Washington Post: People are more anti-vaccine if they get their COVID news from Facebook
- Washington Post: These nine swing states will see the biggest ‘blue shift’
- Wall Street Journal: Actually, We Will Know a Lot on Election Night
- WIRED: The US Is Disastrously Behind in Covid-19 Testing. Again.
- RealClearPolitics: How a Public Health Crisis Becomes a Public Trust Crisis
- New York Times: Young People More Likely to Believe Virus Misinformation, Study Says
- Washington Post: These governors are reopening their states faster than their voters want
- WIRED: The Political Twitter Bots Will Rage This Election Day
- NPR: Data Scientists Find Consistencies in Donald Trump’s Erratic Twitter Strategy
- Politico: The Data Behind Trump’s Twitter Takeover
- Politico: What to expect in the Dem debate? We crunched the last one
- Politico: Debate data reveals it’s still the Trump show
- Politico: Trump won the debate – or at least talked the most
- Politico: How Congress sees the world, in charts
- Politico: What politicians talk about when they talk about coal
About me
- Contact me at e-mail: media@ognyanova.net
- My current bio and CV are available here.
- High-res photos of me are available here and here.
