Daniel Kreiss

Daniel Kreiss is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kreiss’s research explores the impact of technological change on the public sphere and political practice. In his first book, Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama (Oxford University Press, 2012), Kreiss presents the history of new media and Democratic Party political campaigning over the last decade. Kreiss's second book, Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2016), analyzes the central role of technology, digital media, data, and analytics in electoral campaigning, and explains differences in the two U.S. political parties' technological adoption.

Kreiss is an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and received a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University.