Ariel Hasell is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. Broadly, her research focuses on digital media, public opinion, and public engagement with politics and science. She uses quantitative methodologies to examine how an individual’s choice of news media content influences various attitudes and behaviors, including information evaluation, motivations to process and share information, and the formation of policy preferences. Her dissertation examined the influence of digital social signals on the transmission, selection, and framing of political news information in social media.
Her current research is focused on how social media are changing the nature of expertise and who is perceived to be an expert on topics related to science (e.g. sustainability and wellness) and politics (e.g. journalism and institutions).
She earned her bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara.