Brooke Foucault Welles

Brooke Foucault Welles is an Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the department of Communication Studies, core faculty of the Network Science Institute, and director of the Communication Media and Marginalization (CoMM) Lab at Northeastern University. Combining the methods of network science with theories from the social sciences, Foucault Welles studies power and amplification in online communication networks, with particular emphasis on how these networks mitigate and exacerbate marginalization. She is the co-author of »#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice« and co-editor of the »Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication«.