She studies forms of collective life in mediated environments, with particular attention to how architectural materials and technologies like windows, displays, screens, and slideware, shape a sense of public, shared, or intersubjective experience. Trained as a cultural historian, interaction designer, and experimental psychologist, she employs a range of methodologies to explore sociality in media-spaces. She is currently completing a book about the 20th century rise of hyper-mediated worship, or megachurches. Prior to her position at NYU she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at HUMlab, Umeå University. She hold a Ph.D. in Communication, and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems, both from Stanford University. Robles-Anderson is currently the recipient of a multi-year grant from the Intel Science and Technology Center on Social Computing.