Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
Tara Zimmerman completed her PhD in Information Science at the University of North Texas where she focused on the qualitative study of social media information behavior. She coined the term Social Noise to describe how observation by other people in the social network influences an individual’s observable behavior. As a CI 2020 Fellow at UT-Austin, Zimmerman continues to develop the Social Noise framework, applying it specifically to misinformation surrounding COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election.