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Professor Nisbet is a social scientist who studies strategic communication in policy-making and public affairs. His current work focuses on controversies surrounding science, the environment, and public health. In this research, Nisbet examines how journalists cover policy debates, how strategists try to mold public opinion, and how citizens make sense of complex and politically charged issues.

He has analyzed a wide range of debates including those over stem cell research, global warming, intelligent design, food biotechnology, nanotechnology, and hurricanes.

Nisbet is the author of close to two dozen journal articles and book chapters. Over the past five years, these studies have been cited more than 400 times by other scholars. He has also written about the implications of this research at popular outlets such as Science, the Washington Post, The Scientist magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Foreign Policy magazine.

Nisbet is a research fellow with the Center for Social Media and an affiliated researcher with the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. He serves on the editorial board for the International Journal of Press/Politics and is co-editor of a special upcoming issue of Mass Communication & Society.

His research is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and he has worked as a consultant to the National Academies, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Exploratorium science center and other leading organizations.

Center fellows collaborate with the Center for Social Media on various projects.

Barbara Abrash  

Director of Public Policy Programs, New York University

Mridu Chandra

Director, Documentary Ethics Project

Ellen Goodman

Professor of Law, Rutgers University—Camden

Nina Keim

Research Fellow

Matt Nisbet

Research Fellow

Jacquie Jones

Research Fellow

Gordon Quinn

Artistic Director and founding member of Kartemquin Films

Neil Sieling

Media Fellow

Ann Williams

Media Fellow

Shalini Venturelli

Director, Global Public Media Research Project

The Center for Social Media Working Group is composed of School of Communication faculty who advise, assist and participate in the Center's activities.

Barbara Diggs-Brown

Jane Hall

Leena Jayaswal

Larry Kirkman

Brigid Maher

Kathryn Montgomery

Christopher Palmer

Rick Rockwell