Selected Press

2024

Assistant professor loves small things in life, by Jeff Bleiler for The University Record on February 19, 2024

2023

Michaelanne Thomas on social justice, online communities and what it means to cultivate a ‘sense of wonder’, University of Michigan School of Information News on April 20, 2023

2022

Assistant professor Michaelanne Thomas earns a Crosby Research Award, University of Michigan School of Information News on June 21, 2022

UMSI welcomes new 2022-23 faculty, University of Michigan School of Information News on August 24, 2022

2021

Cuban memers are using sarcasm to avoid jail time, by Lillian Perlmutter for Rest of World on October 18, 2021

Cuba Is Making Its Own Smartphone—With China’s Help, by Lillian Perlmutter for Vice on June 14, 2021

Thomas: Cuba is creating smartphones, citizens have reason to be excited and skeptical, University of Michigan School of Information News on June 15, 2021

2018

How is the Digital Age Playing Out Around the Globe? for Atlantic Live hosted by Steve Clemons from The Atlantic on September 6, 2018

Inside Cuba’s Massive, Weekly, Human-Curated Sneakernet, by Clive Thompson for Boing Boing on May 3, 2018

Exploring the IRL peer-to-peer network of Cuba’s offline internet, episode 1011 of Extremely Offline for This is Hell

2017

Microsoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers, for the Microsoft Research Blog on February 2, 2017

2016

Millenials lead private media opening in Communist-run Cuba, by Sarah Marsh for Reuters on September 16, 2016

Este Proyecto Ayuda a Los Cubanos a Navegar en Internet, by David Cox for CNN en Español on May 31, 2016

Dye: “Cuba tendrá en 10 años internet más amplio”, CNN en Español

Ga. Tech Project Provides Cubans With Faster Internet, 90.1 FM WABE

Cuba’s Government – Not Obama or Google – Will Decide When Cubans Get the Internet, Motherboard

Next Billion People Online Will Get Odd Versions of the Internet, by Aviva Rutkin for New Scientist on February 3, 2016

2013

How to Manage Your Digital Afterlife, by Carrie Arnold for Scientific American on September 1, 2013

The Memory of Cory Monteith Lives On (and On) via Social Media, by Maane Khatchatourian for Variety on July 31, 2013

How 1 Billion People Are Coping With Death and Facebook, by Stephanie Buck for Mashable on February 13, 2013

2012

How People Communicate on Instagram, by Alicia Eler for ReadWrite on June 22, 2012

Posting Photos of Your Kids on Facebook: The Realities, by Alicia Eler ReadWrite on April 19, 2012

I Wanna Live Forever, or How We Die on Social Networks, by Alicia Eler ReadWrite on March 6, 2012