Professor Andrew Chadwick

For the last 25 years Professor Chadwick has researched and published widely and influentially on how the internet and digital media have reshaped politics, society and media. He joined Loughborough’s Department of Communication and Media in 2017 and in 2018 founded the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C), where he and a team of researchers are working to understand how social media and digital technologies are implicated in disinformation, misinformation and the changing social norms of public communication.

His media engagement includes BBC Radio Four’s Thinking Allowed, The Moral Maze, and The World at One. He has written for the British and U.S. press, including The Independent, the Washington Post, and The Conversation. News organizations in the UK, Finland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, and Spain, among other countries, have covered his research, including in outlets such as The Times, BBC News, the Washington Post, ITV News, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CNN, the Independent, Bloomberg News, the Telegraph, the New Scientist, First Draft, Campaign, New Statesman, and Stylist.