Sara Holland Levin, Ph.D.

Sara Levin

Assistant Professor

Office: Wayne 225
Email: slevin417@wcupa.edu
Office Phone: x1575

Brief Bio

Sara Holland Levin an Assistant Professor of Media and Culture in the Department of Communication and Media at WCUPA. She earned her doctorate in Communication at the University of Connecticut, and her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Rhode Island. Sara specializes in teaching digital production coursework as well as media literacy, with a background and special interest in audio editing and radio.

Dr. Holland Levin’s research centers on political discourse on social media. She uses computational methods to explore public opinion on a variety of political issues. She's particularly interested in how political influencers assert themselves as sources of information on social media. Dr. Holland Levin’s work also explores various identities on social media (i.e. women in STEM on TikTok, Black Twitter, the #MeToo movement, etc.).

Courses Taught

  • MDC 217: Introduction to Video Production
  • MDC 251: Media Technology
  • SPK 230: Business and Professional Speech Communication

Recent Publications

Suk, J., Zhang, Y., Wang, R., Yang, D., Holland Levin, S., Seo, J., & Dong, X. (2025). From activism to polarization: temporal dynamics of# MeToo politicization on Twitter/X. Information, Communication & Society, 1-21.

Turner, M., & Holland Levin, S. (2025). Covert Control: How political elites and influencers use manipulation on social media. In-Mind Special Issue: The Dark Side of Social Media.

Holland Levin, S. (2025). Teaching media literacy in the age of disinformation. Teaching Journalism & Mass Communication, 15(1), 29–31.

Wang, R., Zhang, Y., Suk, J., & Holland Levin, S. (2024). Empowered or Constrained in Platform Governance? An Analysis of Twitter Users’ Responses to Elon Musk’s Takeover. Social Media+ Society, 10(3), 20563051241277606.

Steinke, J., Gilbert, C., Coletti, A., Holland Levin, S., Suk, J., & Oeldorf-Hirsch, A. (2024). Women in STEM on TikTok: Advancing Visibility and Voice Through STEM Identity Expression. Social Media+ Society, 10(3), 20563051241274675.