The Mediatization Lab at RPI

Russel Sage Laboratory

We explore how media technologies shape everyday habits, attention, and social life. Our work examines how mobile devices and social platforms mediate violence, influence politics, and transform how people connect, communicate, and understand the world and themselves.

Our Focus

Mediatized Violence

We study how violence is mediated, circulated, received, and made sense of across mobile and platform-based media, and how it shapes public feeling, perception, and participation: what we fear, care about, feel compelled to act on, and how we take action.

Platform Politics and Governance

We examine mobile user cultures and the everyday contexts of mediatized political life — from underrepresented voices to far-right movements. We are particularly interested in how mobile cultures, platform design and governance, and institutional politics intersect.

Global Comparative

We trace how major media events are constructed, circulated, and interpreted across digital platforms and transnational contexts. Our research explores how mobile information becomes stories and shared—or contested—narratives in a world of constant connection and updating.