Hannah Waight

Hannah Waight is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, specializing in media politics and information control in authoritarian regimes. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and completed postdoctoral research at NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics.

Her research examines state propaganda mechanisms in Chinese media ecosystems using computational text analysis and machine learning. Current projects investigate generative AI's role in information amplification and cross-lingual search systems for sign language.

She develops novel methodologies for measuring media manipulation and analyzing perception dynamics in controlled information environments.