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Biography
Matthew Salzano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and former Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Fellow in Ethical AI, Information Systems, and Data Science and Literacy applied to Complex Structures and Networks. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in communication from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in communication and women’s and gender studies from Pacific Lutheran University.
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Matthew is a scholar of rhetoric and digital culture with a particular emphasis on how digital technology, including artificial intelligence, impacts and interacts with social justice and participatory practices of deliberation, argumentation, and protest. Throughout his research and teaching, he questions: what does it mean to participate ethically in civic life in a digital age?
His research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society. His scholarship appears in journals such as AI and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Public Relations Review, and has received awards from the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine, and the National Communication Association.