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Alice Marwick is an author and communications journal writer, who currently works as both an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill communications department and as an affiliated researcher with the Data and Society Research Institute. Dr. Marwick has written for publications such as the New York Times, and the Guardian. Her works include the examination of politics, race, social media and gender. She has been a keynote speaker for various universities throughout the United States.

Education
Dr. Marwick graduated with her political science and women's studies bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1998. She received her Master of Arts degree in communication from the University of Washington in 2005. She received her PhD in the department Department of Media, Culture and Communication from New York University in 2010.

Written Works
She has written for the New York Review of Books. Dr. Marwick has authored two books: The Sage Handbook of Social Media(2016) with co-authors, Jean Burgess and Thomas Poell and solo authored the book :Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age(2013).

In the Sage Handbook of Social Media, the authors emphasize the importance of social media within contemporary societies and examines its history to scholars and students, while examining the use of social media within multiple fields from marketing, to protesting, to political campaigns.

In Status Update, Marwick draws on collected data from people within San Francisco and examines how people want attention and popularity to reach a higher social standing. A review from the American Library Association says that her book is important because it takes a needed female perspective on a world that is misogynistic with it's technological feats.

Other Works
Dr. Marwick was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft New England. She was the former director of the McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University.

She has participated in podcasts examining far right extremism, misinformation online, and the analyzation of the liberal left and the conservative right's social media habits.

She has also written for publications such as Public Culture and New Media and Society.

Accomplishments
She is a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Award Recipient which is an award that provides support to top researchers in humanities. She was honored in 2017, as a 2017 Global Thinker from Foreign Policy Magazine for her work on examining the social aspects of fake news.