Email: sakshib3@illinois.edu
Research Interests
- News
- Media
- Politics
- Information
- Methodology
Recent Publications/Presentations
R Ray, S Bhalla, H Taneja. (2025). Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers. Journal of Communication, https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaf018
Bhalla, S., Nelson, M. R., & Spikes, M. (2025). Classroom contexts: Teachers talk teaching media literacy. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 17(2), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2025-17-2-3
Bhalla, S., Ray, R., & Taneja, H. (2024). When news is entertainment: explaining the persistence of misinformation through the information environment. Information Communication & Society, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2024.2406819
Khan, A., S Natarajan, S Bhalla, Climate Strikes in Millennial India: Social Capital and “On-Ground” Networks in Digital-First Movements, Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 518–523, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab035
Courses Taught
- ADV 483 Audience Analysis
Awards and Honors
- Illinois Distinguished Fellowship
- Phi Kappa Phi