Nirit Weiss-Blatt, Ph.D., is a Communication Researcher and Author of "The TECHLASH and Tech Crisis Communication." She is a Former Research Fellow at the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She has two decades of experience in the tech sector, first in tech PR, then tech journalism, and ultimately in tech media studies. Her research focuses on tech discourse, especially around emerging technologies.Dr. Weiss-Blatt is a contributor to Techdirt and has also published in The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Big Think, and Tech Policy Press. Her investigative journalism on “AI Panic” has reached hundreds of thousands of views, and it was named one of the “Top AI Newsletters of 2024.”She was quoted in The Washington Post, WIRED, Forbes, VentureBeat, Engadget, Slate, ArsTechnica, Fast Company, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Daily Beast, The Week, Le Monde, Les Echos, IEEE Spectrum, and Scientific American.