COMMUNICATION · CULTURE · TECHNOLOGY

How we become ourselves online.

How we become ourselves online.

Research and writing about identity, trust, relationships, social media, artificial intelligence, learning, and belonging.

Research and writing about identity, trust, relationships, social media, artificial intelligence, learning, and belonging.

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.

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notes, questions, and the long work of paying attention

THE QUESTION BENEATH THE WORK

What happens to identity, intimacy, and belonging when communication is shaped by platforms, algorithms, and artificial intelligence?

a question I keep returning to →

FOUR THREADS

The questions move between four connected themes.

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Identity

How people narrate, perform, and revise the self across digital spaces.

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Identity

How people narrate, perform, and revise the self across digital spaces.

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Identity

How people narrate, perform, and revise the self across digital spaces.

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Trust & relationships

How intimacy, credibility, and care are negotiated when communication is mediated.

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Trust & relationships

How intimacy, credibility, and care are negotiated when communication is mediated.

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Trust & relationships

How intimacy, credibility, and care are negotiated when communication is mediated.

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AI & learning

How artificial intelligence changes what it means to know, teach, make, and decide.

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AI & learning

How artificial intelligence changes what it means to know, teach, make, and decide.

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AI & learning

How artificial intelligence changes what it means to know, teach, make, and decide.

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Belonging

How communities form boundaries, shared meanings, and possibilities for participation.

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Belonging

How communities form boundaries, shared meanings, and possibilities for participation.

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Belonging

How communities form boundaries, shared meanings, and possibilities for participation.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Trust after the feed

Trust after the feed

A mixed-method study of how people decide what — and whom — to believe when personal testimony, platform cues, synthetic media, and institutional authority collide.

Interviews · digital ethnography · discourse analysis

The project follows everyday judgments of credibility across family chats, classrooms, community forums, and public-facing social media.

Teaching as a shared practice of noticing.

Teaching as a shared practice of noticing.

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.

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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.

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The Networked Prof 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.

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The Networked Prof translates communication research into accessible reflections on social media, AI, identity, relationships, and teaching.

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let’s keep the conversation going

let’s keep the conversation going

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