Jeffrey Lane

Jeffrey Lane studies communication and technology use as it relates to urban life, work, criminal justice, and youth culture. He develops and employs urban and digital ethnographic methods to examine up-close how people find community and meaning in their lives.

Lane is the author of "The Digital Street" (Oxford University Press, 2019), which received the Nancy Baym Book Award from the Association of Internet Researchers and the Best Book Award from the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Section of the American Sociological Association. Lane’s current ethnographic fieldwork examines micromobility in the South Bronx. Lane’s research also encompasses a variety of collaborative, team-based projects using surveys and mixed methods to examine issues including youth exposure to gun violence in online and offline settings and the impacts of social media on teenagers and parents in N.J.

He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Children and Media and Mobile Media & Communication. His research has been published in Journal of Communication, American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and New Media & Society, and written about in The Atlantic, New York Times, and New York Magazine. Lane’s research has been funded by the New Jersey Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton University
M.A., Sociology, Princeton University
B.A., Sociology, Wesleyan University

Digital Ethnography Working Group
Media, Inequality and Change Center (MIC)
SC&I Youth Cluster
Social Media & Society Cluster (SMS)