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David Markowitz is an American communication researcher, professor, and computational scientist. He currently is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon. His research involves deception in data, media, and language, and the psychological meanings of language.

Early Life & Education
Markowitz was raised in Suffern, New York.

He earned his undergraduate and Masters degrees at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Markowitz graduated cum laude with a Bachelor's of Science in Communication and a distinction in social research in 2010, and a Master's of Science in Communication in 2015. Markowitz then earned his PhD in Communication at Stanford University where he graduated in 2018.

Research
During his time at Stanford, he was a researcher at the Stanford Social Media Lab. Markowitz's research focuses mainly on the areas of deception in language and social media and the meaning of language data on human emotions, interactions, and opinions. He also has interests in media psychology and social media communication. His research has spanned the fields of criminal justice, politics, advertising, and history.

He has been published 27 times and cited in books, articles, and journals. Some academic journals Markowitz's work has been published in include the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, the Journal of Communication, PLOS One, Psychology, Crime & Law, and the Journal of Applied Communication Research. He has been featured in Newsweek, Vice UK , Time , XRDS: The ACM Magazine for Students, a publication of the Association for Computing Machinery, and Tech Explorist.

Markowitz's work has also been presented at conferences such as the 97th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2011 and the 121st American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference in 2014 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Additionally, Markowitz has been published in 3 books, The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication, A Networked Self and Love by Zizi Papacharissi, and The International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication as part of The Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication.

Markowitz's most cited works include:


 * "Peer to peer lending: The relationship between language features, trustworthiness, and persuasion success" (2011)
 * "Linguistic obfuscation in fraudulent science" (2016)
 * "Linguistic cases of a scientific fraud: The case of Diederik Stapel" (2014)
 * "Immersive virtual reality field trips facilitate learning about climate change" (2018)

Career
Since 2018, Markowitz has been an Assistant Professor of Social Media Data Analytics at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. He is a part of the university's School of Journalism and Communication faculty.

Markowitz serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. He is also a member of the Academy of Management, the International Communication Association, the National Communication Association, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

He created commPAIR, an interactive online tool to aid people with understanding their relationship to big text data and, by extent, his research.

Awards

 * Co-Recipient of the Dean's Research Grant, University of Oregon (2019)
 * Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon (2019)
 * New Junior Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon (2018)

Personal life
Markowitz is a musician and enjoys singing and playing the piano, saxophone, and guitar. He occasionally busks or participates in open-mic events.