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.
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PointsThis pandemic exposes the erosion of our collective trust in health expertise. Read on PointsMarch 2020 -
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PointsMary Madden and Erin McAweeney argue that we need to move past the "addiction" framing when it comes to digital well-being. Read on PointsSeptember 2019 -
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PointsErin McAweeney discusses the history of anti-vaccination beliefs and new vulnerabilities for networked health information. Read on PointsMarch 2019