Erin McAweeney

Research Analyst

Erin is a research analyst at Data & Society working with the Health and Data team. Previously, she was a Google News Lab fellow at non-profit citizen journalism lab WITNESS, where she led a network analysis of manipulated visual content and context targeting immigrants and activists online. She received her Master’s in Information Science from the University of Washington Information School where she studied data science and human-computer interaction. Before coming to Data & Society she conducted research with the Technology and Social Change research group as well as the Mobile and Accessible Design Lab at the University of Washington. She was also a recent research fellow for the Information Interaction Lab at the University of Michigan.