Brendan Mahoney

Brendan Mahoney’s academic interests relate broadly to the relationship between the internet as a sociotechnical object and political ideology, which has led them to study the processes through which digital platforms afford and disrupt social movement activism across the political spectrum. Brendan is also interested in how ideology impacts the formation of internet technology through the creation of digital infrastructure, the construction of algorithmic tools, and more. Through a mix of intellectual curiosity and chronic indecision, they have acquired a broad methodological skillset that includes qualitative methods as well as approaches from computational social science. At Rutgers, Brendan applies these interests to the courses they teach on critical approaches to data science. They received their Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication in 2024.

Ph.D., Communication, University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Economics and English Literature, SUNY Geneseo