Samantha Bradshaw
The Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Samantha Bradshaw is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Program on Democracy and the Internet and the Digital Civil Society Lab. She completed her D.Phil. at the Oxford Internet Institute, where her research examined the producers and drivers of disinformation and computational propaganda. Samantha is broadly interested in the relationship between technology and democracy, and the politics embedded into the technical design and private practices of platform companies. Her fellowship work will examine the gender dimensions of disinformation, and how harassment and misogyny are used to suppress the political participation of women online. Samantha has published in leading academic journals, her research and public writing has also been featured by numerous media outlets, and she has spoken on expert panels and delivered keynote lectures around the world. She has also been involved in public policy discussions in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States about the effects of technology on democracy.