At the end of the month, I’ll be joining other academics and policymakers at a symposium on pandemic behaviour organized by the RIVM (the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment). I’ll be […]
Moderating Event on Digital Disinformation
This week, I moderated an inspiring public event on disinformation and its societal impacts. The speakers were Prof. Herman Wassermann, Professor of Journalism at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and Giancarlo Fiorella, the Director for Research […]
Joining Editorial Board of International Journal of Cultural Studies
The title says it all, basically! This month I’m joining the impressive team of editors on the board of IJCS. Very curious about what this new role will be like and excited to find out.
New Article on Overlaps between Covid-19 and Climate Science Contestation on Twitter
This article I co-authored with Dr. Ali Honari will be out soon in Public Understanding of Science. It’s about the politicisation of science on Twitter. Here’s the manuscript already.
Special Issue on Media, Trust, and Covid-19 Science
Very excited to share that this special issue of the Journal of Digital Social Research is out! This was a project that’s been a long time in the works and has been a tremendously rewarding […]
Seed Funding from “Pathways to Sustainability”
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 […]
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 […]
Donya Alinejad 