Some colleagues and I recently started setting up a small but ambitious project under the theme: Public Communication of Climate Science in the Social Media Age. We’re very pleased to have received funding via the […]
Author: Donya Alinejad
Contribution to The RoutLedge Companion to Media Anthropology
I co-authored a chapter with Laura Candidatu for the masterfully edited (by Elisabetta Costa, Patricia G. Lange, Nell Haynes, and Jolynna Sinanan) and incredibly thorough and comprehensive Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology. Here’s the impressive […]
New Article on Media and Climate Science Communication
The latest article to come out of our project on trust in scientific expertise is finally published. Here’s what it’s about: Recent attacks on scientific authority have intensified calls for climate scientists to seek out […]
Contribution to Article in Dub Magazine on Fake News
I was one of the five Utrecht University academics to share some of my thoughts on science, media, and public trust in the era of “post-truth” and “fake news” for this article the University’s DUB […]
Authors’ Workshop in Berlin
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of being joined by a group of six authors and two co-editors to work on our special issue on the theme of Media, Trust, and Science in the […]
Book review in Anthropological Quarterly
The kind people at Anthropological Quarterly reached out to me to write a review of Sima Shakhsari’s 2020 book, The Rightful Politics of Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan (Duke University Press).
New Article on Political Manipulation on Iranian Twitter
Ali Honari and I have a new article out together analyzing the manipulative qualities of the online presence of the Iranian exile organization, the Mojaheddin-e Khalqh. We argue that it’s important to look at the […]
Dutch Royal Academy Early Career Award
I recently received the wonderful news that I’m one of this year’s recipients of the Early Career award. The award is granted to 12 scholars, each year, nationwide, by the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts […]
