Javie Ssozi

Javie Ssozi

Postdoctoral Scholar

Department
  • Journalism
ssozi@msu.edu

Bio

Dr. Javie Ssozi is the Dean's Postdoctoral Scholar in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Dr. Ssozi's research agenda is at the intersection of global digital media and global politics, with a particular interest in digital journalism and emerging technologies. His scholarly work examines how power is negotiated on and through global digital platforms. He is currently interested in how emerging technologies, including algorithms and AI applications shape and are shaped by contemporary communication practices, cultures, and governance regimes across global contexts.

Dr. Ssozi is a Research Associate at the LIFT Project, a community-oriented research group focused on understanding and fostering trust in journalism and news in an ever changing information ecosystem. He is also a Research Associate at the Center for Public, Platforms and Personalization (CP3), interdisciplinary research group dedicated to studying the relationship between personalization algorithms and society

Research and Teaching

  • Emerging technologies
  • Platform governance
  • Global media & politics
  • Digital journalism

Related Work

Recent publications

Scott, A., & Ssozi, J. (2026). Colonial legacies and local visions: Analyzing visual news in Uganda. Journalism, 27(6), 1860-1879. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849251353502

Maragh-Lloyd, R., Stoldt, R., Ssozi, J., Biddle, K., Ekdale, B., & Havens, T. (2026). “They’re trying to influence me to gain the more acceptable viewpoint”: The algorithmic imaginaries of politically activated social media users. New media & society, 28(6), 2779-2798. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251338502

Ssozi, J., & Dowling, D. O. (2025). Defying Uganda’s morality police: the grammar of social media protest images. Communication, culture & critique, 18(1), 49-57. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae049

Habib, H., Stoldt, R., High, A., Ekdale, B., Peterson, A., Biddle, K., Ssozi, J., & Nithyanand, R. (2025). Searching for Affirmation: How Partisan Audiences on Google Search Induce an Abortion-Related Filter Bubble Effect. Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction, 9(7), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757656

Contact Information

404 Wilson Road, Room 303  
Communication Arts & Sciences Building   
Michigan State University 
East Lansing, MI 48824