Jo Lukito

Jo Lukito is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and Media, specializing in cross-platform media language and global political communication. Her research employs natural language processing and quantitative methods to study political disinformation, social media impacts, and media ecosystems. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with minors in English Linguistics and Political Science.

Her research focuses on Russian disinformation’s role in political communication, live-tweeting dynamics, economic news coverage, and U.S. foreign policy reporting. Notably, her work was cited in Robert Mueller’s 2018 report and featured in CNN and Columbia Journalism Review.

Recent publications explore digital platform ethics, computational methods in political analysis, and the intersection of social media with elections and misinformation. She emphasizes ethical frameworks for digital research, particularly for early-career scholars.