Professor
Anabel
Quan-Haase
Germany / Canada
Western University (UWO)
Dr. Quan-Haase is a Full Professor and Associate Dean of Sociology and Information and Media Studies at Western University. She is the director of the SocioDigital Media Lab and her work focuses on social change, social media, and social networks, with a keen interest in novel methodologies. She engages in interdisciplinarity, knowledge transfer, and public outreach. She is the coeditor of the Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (Sage, 2022), coeditor of the Handbook of Computational Social Science (Routledge, 2022), coauthor of Real-Life Sociology (Oxford University Press, 2020), and author of Technology and Society (Oxford University Press, 2020). Dr. Quan-Haase has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Dr. Quan-Haase is past chair of the Communication, Information Technology, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association and past president of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Through her policy work she has cooperated with the Benton Foundation, Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Canada’s Digital Policy Forum. Dr. Quan-Haase is also a frequent expert commentator and resource for mass media outlets including The Globe and Mail, CBC, Vice, CTV, Global News, Financial Post, The Huffington Post, and many others.