My name is Annika Pinch and I am an assistant professor at Hamline University in English and Communication Studies. In 2025, I completed my PhD in the Media, Technology, and Society Program at Northwestern University.
My research sits at the intersection of critical digital media, communication technology, and digital sociology. I examine how people use, navigate, and contest digital technologies, and how these interactions shape identity, activism, and social inequality. I am especially interested in questions of visibility and self-disclosure: how individuals decide what to reveal, to whom, and through which communication channels, particularly when being visible carries significant social consequences.
My work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, the International Journal of Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, and the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.
Please feel free to contact me at: apinch01@hamline.edu
