Jolie C. Matthews

Biography

Jolie C. Matthews studies the sociotechnological and sociocultural dimensions of cognition through the ways media, popular culture, and various digital forces influence people’s beliefs about different events, individuals, and groups in the past and present. Her work focuses on learning across contexts, media, and digital literacy, historical consciousness, the representation of individuals and groups in and through digital spaces, dominant narratives, source credibility, metacognition, and bias.

She received her PhD in Learning Sciences and Technology Design from Stanford University, where she was a research assistant with the Stanford University Joint Media Engagement Group, Wallenberg Media Places Grant for Digital Humanities, and YouthLAB. An alumnus of New York University, she earned her BA from the Gallatin School, concentrating in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She received a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, with a focus on fiction and screenwriting. She was also a PhD Research Intern at Microsoft’s Social Media Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected Publications

King, B.J. & Matthews, J.C. (2025). Trailblazers: The Unmatched Story of Women’s Tennis, Young Readers Edition. (A. Badiu, Illus.). Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Matthews, J.C. & Tran, D. (2023). Still Never at the Top: Representation of Asian and Black Characters in Sony and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man Trilogy. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 

Matthews, J.C. (2022). College students’ perspectives of bias in their news consumption habits. Journal of Media Literacy Education. Download 

Matthews, J.C. (2022). Historical Perspective Taking and the Self in Online Community Discussions. Discourse Processes. Download

Shrodes, A., Matthews, J.C, & Lam, W.S.E. (2021). Enacting Resistance to Intersecting Oppressions through Satirical Digital Writing on LGBTQ+ YouTube. In Guzzetti, B. (Ed.) Literacies, Genders, and Cultures: Understanding Intersecting Identities. New York: Routledge.

Matthews, J.C. (2021). Dominant Narratives and Historical Perspective in Time Travel Stories: A Case Study of Doctor Who.  The Social Studies. Download

Matthews, J.C. (2020). Media Literacy as an Internal and External Process. A Response to “Red States, Blue States, and Media Literacy: Political Context and Media Literacy”.  Democracy & Education. Download

Matthews, J. C.(2018). A Past that Never Was: Historical Poaching in Game of Thrones Fans’ Tumblr Practices.Popular Communication. Download

Matthews, J.C. (2017). New Media in Kylie Peppler (Ed.)., Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning. Sage Publications. Download 

Matthews, J.C. (2016). Historical Inquiry in an Informal Fan community: Online Source Usage and the TV show The Tudors. Journal of the Learning Sciences: 4-50. Download 

Matthews, J.C. (2016). Professionals and Nonprofessionals on Goodreads: Behavior Standards for Authors, Reviewers, and Readers. New Media & Society.