Sarah Sobieraj is Professor of Sociology at Tufts University with expertise in US political culture, extreme incivility, digital abuse and harassment, and the mediated information environment.
Her most recent book, Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy, was honored with the Roderick P. Hart Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Political Communication Division and the Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology. Sobieraj’s other books include The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility (w/ J. Berry), and Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism. She is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology (w/ D. Rohlinger) and A Crisis of Civility?: Political Discourse and Its Discontents (w/ R. Boatright, D. Young, and T. Schaffer). Sobieraj’s research also appears in journals such as Information, Communication & Society, Social Problems, PS: Political Science & Politics, and Political Communication.
She and her work have been featured in venues such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Politico, Vox, CNN, NPR, the American Prospect, National Review, and the Atlantic.
