Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin

Assistant Professor, Information
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. Her research explores how marginalized communities—particularly Black women, femmes, and queer individuals—engage with mass and digital communication technologies to seek information, produce knowledge, and foster community. She also examines how the infrastructure of these technologies can either help dismantle or perpetuate systemic barriers to equity.
Dr. Peterson-Salahuddin's work has been featured in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Critical Studies in Media Communication, New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, Information, Communication & Society, and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Her research has earned recognition from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and has been supported by funding from The Russell Sage Foundation.
Currently, she is working on a book project focused on Black feminism and popular media. Dr. Peterson-Salahuddin holds a Ph.D. and MA in Media, Technology, and Society from Northwestern University, as well as a BA in Political Science and Media Studies from Vassar College.
Selected Publication
Aug 2024 • Information, Communication & Society, 1-18 • Routledge
Jul 2024 • Journalism Studies 25(9), 1076-1094 • Routledge
Jun 2024 • Big Data & Society 11(2), 20539517241245333 • SAGE Publications
Apr 2024 • New Media & Society 26(5), 2387-2406 • SAGE Publications
Feb 2024 • International Journal of Communication 18, 22
Feb 2024 • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology • John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Dec 2023 • Media and Communication 11(4), 332-343
Aymar Jean Christian, Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin
Jan 2023 • Information, Communication & Society 26(5), 923-940 • Routledge
Jan 2022 • Social Media + Society 8(1), 20563051211069051 • SAGE Publications
Oct 2021 • Critical Studies in Media Communication 38(5), 391-407 • Routledge
Aymar Jean Christian, Faithe Day, Mark Díaz and Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin
Aug 2020 • Social Media + Society 6(3)
Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin and Nicholas Diakopoulos
Jul 2020 • Media and Communication 8(3):27-38