The University of Illinois Chicago Social Media Lab (chiSOCIAL) researches social, communication, and psychological processes on social media, mobile phones, AI, and other digital technologies. We are interested in how people live, love, and relate in digital spaces. Our research investigates the impact of social media on well-being , relationships, and society. We are focused on the future of media and designing technologies to better support well-being and social relationships. 💻😘
Graduate and undergraduate students interested in working on empirical social science about communication technologies and human behavior are welcome to join us. Contact Dr. Samuel Hardman Taylor for questions.
Current and Past Members of chiSOCIAL
technology. democracy. racial justice.
health communication. algorithms. online community.
artificial intelligence. human-machine communication. cognition.
social media. interpersonal communication. human-computer interaction.
social media. human-machine communication. digital health.
Yao, Y., Taylor, S. H., & Leiser, S. (2024). Who’s viewing this?: Extending the imagined audience process model towards affordances and self-disclosure goals on Instagram. Social Media + Society, 10, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231224721.
Yao, Y., & Taylor, S. H. (2024). Algorithmic intimacy: Rethinking relational maintenance on social media. Paper presented at the 2024 annual meeting for the International Communication Association, Gold Coast, AU. Top Student-led Paper Award, Interpersonal Communication Division
Lackey, C., & Taylor, S. H. (2023). Algorithmic folk theories of online harassment: How social media algorithms enable online harassment and prevent intervention. Paper presented at the 2023 annual meeting for the Association for Internet Researchers, Philadelphia, PA.