[citation needed] In 1994, Schradie took a job at a Food Lion grocery store in Durham, North Carolina as part of effort to unionize the workforce.

[12] Schradie had originally gone to the Philippines with the intention of making a documentary about sweatshops, but while traveling with the guerilla New People's Army, learned that issues related to land reform were more pressing.

[13] The film followed the residents of the Filipino village Hacienda Looc as they battled the government and developers who were attempting to seize their land and turn it into a golf resort.

[17] Her research focused on the digital divide in terms of who had the means and access to create content and participate in Web 2.0 platforms such as social media and networking.

[22] Schradie cast doubt on the conventional wisdom that social networking platforms played a central role in sparking the protests.

Schradie explains that middle to upper-class individuals not only tended to have more ASETs, but often feel more entitlement and confident in their ability to use digital media.

[25] With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Schradie joined a group of Sciences Po researchers tasked with studying the social impact of Covid on French society.

[26] The work included the surprising findings, dubbed the “Eye of the Hurricane” Paradox, that while "the large majority of individuals who are not infected by the virus may be seeing their current condition in a more positive light than they normally would.

"[27] In 2011 and 2012, Schradie spent extensive time interviewing activists across the political spectrum who were involved in some way in the public employee bargaining rights.

This work formed the basis of her book, The Revolution That Wasn't: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives, by Harvard University Press in May 2019.

[28] Schradie's book argues against conventional wisdom that internet activism favors left-leaning causes such as Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street.

[29][30] Writing in Inside Higher educations, Barbara Fister praised the book for adding "new insights to our understanding of the information landscape we live in today, one that focuses more on people than on tech.