Mike Ananny is an Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism at USC Annenberg, where he researches the public ethics of communication systems, specifically intersections of journalism practice and technology design, the sociotechnical dynamics of networked news infrastructures and the power of algorithmic systems. He is also an Affiliated Faculty with USC’s Science, Technology and Society research cluster, and a 2018-19 Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Department of Communication, a Masters from the MIT Media Laboratory, and a Bachelors from the University of Toronto in Computer Science and Human Biology.