Janet works on internet and society issues, specifically on understanding and measuring the changing influence of media institutions and individuals. Her current research focuses on discussions of civic matters on Twitter. Her dissertation was a mixed methods analysis (multinomial logistic regression, thematic analysis, discourse analysis) of student responses to hypothetical situations of discrimination in school.

Currently,  in addition to her contributions to the X-Media Lab, Janet is a Research Analyst for the City University of New York (CUNY) and New Civics Spencer Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE)