Emily S. Zhan

Emily Zhan is a PhD candidate in the Information and Media PhD program. Emily studies the psychological perceptions of AI agents and processes of AI-mediated messages in terms of how people understand AI socially. Her research informs the effects of AI use and, more importantly, how to communicate about using AI to designers and social entities that deploy AI (e.g., companies and governments). Moreover, a broader scope of her study contexts encompasses social media user behavior, crisis communication, civic participation, digital application design, and gender-focused advertising content. Emily's research adopts a diverse range of methods, such as experiments, surveys, computational, and mixed-method approaches.