Jianing Li

Jianing Li’s work explores how people make informed decisions in today’s digital communication environment. Her work investigates the roles of technology, identity, and community in shaping human communication processes. Using computational social science methods, quantitative methods, and mixed methods, her research examines how individuals use digital media to seek information, make sense of it, and engage in discussions, particularly in relation to issues of credibility, accuracy, and literacy.

Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Social Media + Society, Political Communication, Social Science & Medicine, among others. She has received funding from the Social Science Research Council and the International Fact-Checking Network. 

Li has received the Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Paper of the Year award from Mass Communication and Society, and several Top Paper awards from the International Communication Association and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Recently, her research has focused on user skepticism toward digital technologies and examining efforts aimed at improving media and information literacy across various communities and contexts.

Ph.D., Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Journalism and Sociology, Peking University

NETSCI Lab
Computational Social Science Lab