Alyvia Walters
Post-Doctoral Associate
Lecturer
Biography
Alyvia Walters (she/her) earned her doctoral degree in media studies from Rutgers University in 2024. Now a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Library & Information Science, she is uniting her research interests in social media, political rhetoric, news, and identity to complete a wide variety of mixed-methods projects. Furthermore, she seeks to expand her dissertation work on the weaponization of child-centered rhetorics in online political speech.
Aside from her appointment in LIS, Walters is also an instructor in the Department of Journalism & Media Studies, teaching courses such as Gender, Race, and Class in the Media and Introduction to Media across online, hybrid, and in-person formats. Her research has been published in venues such as New Media & Society and the International Journal of Communication.
Walters has earned both research and teaching awards, most recently earning an award for her dissertation from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She is currently working on two projects regarding public opinion on the moderation of politicians' online speech, as well as a project on how blind and low-vision users are able to access (or not) content moderation tools on social media. She is a member of the Computational Social Science Lab and the Power and Inequality Working Group.