Ryan Moore

Ryan Moore is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. His research examines media and technology use across the lifespan, with a particular focus on older adults. He is interested in identifying how individuals—especially older adults—can effectively use media and technology to pursue everyday goals, as well as understanding ways to help build resilience to online threats such as scams and other forms of deception. Ryan uses a variety of methods in his work, including large-scale digital trace data, online and lab experiments, surveys, content analysis, and computational linguistics. He has received top paper awards from the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association, and his dissertation received the Nathan Maccoby Dissertation Award from Stanford University.

Before joining UT Austin, Ryan earned a PhD from Stanford University, where he was a member of the Stanford Social Media Lab and the Stanford Lifespan Development Lab. He also spent a year as a New Map of Life Fellow at the Stanford Center on Longevity.