Andy Fitzgerald is an Assistant Professor of Communication & Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research and teaching expertise include critical communication and cultural studies, technology and audience studies, media theory, and global media ethics. Fitzgerald is currently starting a lab at RPI to use the "Screenomics" screen-capture research framework that collects screenshots of participants devices every few seconds for longitudinal studies to conduct critical digital audience and mobile user studies. He is interested in connecting with potential collaborators, and is also interested in advising doctoral students in the areas of digital politics and media ethics, and critical audience/user studies. Fitzgerald received his Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University in June of 2022. His dissertation, "Mediatizing Terrorism: A Study of Audiences' Construction of Violent Events under Datafied Capitalism," explored the circulation and public reception of accounts of a series of Daesh terrorist attacks in Europe during the spring of 2017 as observed in Screenomics participants' platform and mobile ecosystems. Fitzgerald's academic research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Communication Theory, Journal of Media Ethics, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Human-Computer Interaction, and presented at conferences including the International Communication Association (ICA), Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), and the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Four of my papers have received student paper awards from the Philosophy, Theory & Critique division of ICA (PTC) in 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021. My 2020 paper, “The Eclipse of Ideology: Nonconscious Cognition, Neurodiversity, and Datafied Media Systems as Tools for ‘Self-Regulation,’” was awarded Top Student Paper. He has served as a reviewer for top journals including New Media & Society, Communication Theory, and Television & New Media, and was also elected and served as the Student and Early Career Representative for PTC from 2019-2021.