Dr Samuel Woolley

Dr Samuel Woolley is a Common Room Member at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Dr Woolley studies how emerging media technologies are used for both democracy and control. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, where he also directs Centre for Media Engagement’s Propaganda Research Lab.

Prior to joining UT, he was the Research Director of the Computational Propaganda Project (now the Programme on Democracy and Technology) at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Founding Director of the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future.

He is the author of four books about digital propaganda and regularly writes on the subject in academic journals and for popular venues including the New York Times, the Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, Wired, and Slate.

He has held research fellowships at Google Jigsaw, the ADL, the German Marshall Fund, and GLOBSEC. He has testified on his work before the US Congress and his research has been presented to members of the UK Parliament, NATO, and the United Nations.