Zhaodi’s research centers on the intersection of the sociology of media and information technologies, political sociology, inequality, gender, and computational social sciences. She is particularly interested in how new technologies mediate, shape, or challenge social control and inequalities. She examines this question by focusing on key sites of struggle and control – from moments of heightened public contention to the everyday governance of online spaces that structures public participation and produces new forms of inequality. In both democratic and authoritarian contexts, her work examines who gets to speak, who is heard, how these processes are controlled and contested, and with what consequences for social and political life. Methodologically, she uses a range of tools, including computational methods, advanced statistical techniques, survey experiments, and in-depth interviews.
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