Adina Gitomer

Adina (she/her) is a PhD candidate working with Professor Brooke Foucault Welles in the Communication Media and Marginalization (CoMM) Lab. Her research focuses on how young people leverage social media to exert their political will and organize/connect with each other. Her work stands to push back against the moral panic around youth and social media, which frames their usage as deviant and unhealthy; instead, she explores how, in the face of significant exclusions, social media enables youth agency and participation in public life. Before joining the Network Science Institute, she completed her B.A. in Computer Science and Social Theory at Wesleyan University.