COMMUNICATION · CULTURE · TECHNOLOGY
I’m Annisa M.P. Rochadiat, Ph.D. — Dr. Ro to students and readers — a communication researcher, university professor, educator, former journalist, and public-facing writer.
notes, questions, and the long work of paying attention
THE QUESTION BENEATH THE WORK
My research examines how technologies, platforms, algorithms, and AI become part of the ways people construct identity, establish trust, navigate relationships, and make sense of consequential life experiences.
a question I keep returning to →
FOUR THREADS
The questions move between four connected themes.
FEATURED CURRENT PROJECT
Recruiting Participants
Motherhood, identity, communication, and digital life
The Mediated Matrescence project examines how first-time mothers navigate identity, support, health information, relationships, and the transition to motherhood in a communication environment increasingly shaped by social media, online communities, algorithms, and generative AI.
ADDITIONAL CURRENT RESEARCH
AI-Mediated Communication and the AI Disclosure Dilemma in Education
Related work examines AI-mediated communication, disclosure, credibility, trust, and learning—including how students and faculty navigate generative AI in educational settings.
RESEARCH METHODS
Methodological Expertise
Surveys
Experiments
Interviews
Digital Ethnography
Content Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Focus Groups
Mixed-Methods Research
Media & Identity
How selves are made visible, legible, and contested.
Digital Culture
Platforms, participation, power, and everyday life.
AI & Communication
Critical tools for thinking with — and about — machines.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
Ideas written for life beyond the university.
ESSAY · DIGITAL LIFE
The quiet work of becoming believable online
What our small acts of disclosure reveal about trust, attention, and the audiences we imagine.
from my notebook
I write to make research useful without making it smaller — to hold complexity while inviting more people into the conversation.
THE NETWORKED PROF · ON SUBSTACK
Notes from the networked classroom.
Essays about communication theory walking around in ordinary digital life — published first and in full on Substack.
July 17, 2026
Social Media Is Media Now
My student said social media wasn’t really social anymore. The research suggests the social didn’t disappear—it just moved out of the feed.
Read on Substack
July 8, 2026
The Yearbook That Wouldn’t Stay in the Drawer
A first post about who I am, what this space is for, and why one alumni group chat sent me straight into COMM prof mode.
Read on Substack
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