Pranav Malhotra

Pranav Malhotra is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Department of Communication and Media. His research focuses on how the affordances of social and mobile media intersect with cultural and relational norms to influence how people engage with information and each other in mediated spaces, especially in understudied social and political contexts. In particular, he has examined the use of more private spaces on social media, including how people evaluate the credibility of information within these spaces. Professor Malhotra's work has been published in leading journals like Social Media+Society, Journal of Computer-mediated Communication, Digital Journalism, and International Journal of Communication.