Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication

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Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Connecticut, where she conducts research in the Human-Computer Interaction lab. Her research focuses on the use and effects of social media for information sharing, such as news, health, and recommendations. More recent work has focused on the use of social media to effectively engage the public in science. She teaches courses on media effects, communication technology, and social media, including a service learning course where students work with community partners in Hartford. She has presented at both communication and information science conferences, and her work appears in journals such as Mass Communication & Society,Health Communication, and Social Media + Society.

Selected Urban-Related Publications

Rainear, A., Lachlan, K., Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., & DeVoss, C. (2018). Examining Twitter content of state emergency management during Hurricane Joaquin. Communication Research Reports, 35, 325-334. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2018.1503945

Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., High, A. C., & Christensen, J. L. (2019). Count your calories and share them: Health benefits of sharing mHealth information on social networking sites. Health Communication, 34(1), 1130-1140. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1465791

Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., Schmierbach, M., Appelman, A., & Boyle, M. (2020). The ineffectiveness of fact-checking labels on news memes and articles. Mass Communication and Society, Online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2020.1733613

Email	anne.oeldorf-hirsch@uconn.edu
C.V.	Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch C.V.
Campus	Storrs
Link	https://comm.uconn.edu/person/anne-oeldorf-hirsch/