University of Wisconsin–Madison
Biography Oscar Westlund (PhD) is a Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University since 2018, where he co-leads the OsloMet Digital Journalism Research Group and has institutionalized its OsloMet DJRG fellowship that has attracted more than 30 fellows from all over the world. Westlund is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital Journalism (since 2018), an internationally leading journal in …
Biography Rodrigo Zamith is a media scholar whose research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of journalism and technology, with a focus on understanding the social implications of emerging technologies for how news is produced, distributed, and consumed―as well as the broader consequences of those shifts to public life. Zamith’s research has been published …
Biography I am Bingbing Zhang (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University), an Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) at the University of Iowa. In 2026 I was awarded the Easton Achievement Award in Research from SJMC. I am also passionate about mentoring graduate and undergraduate students and was honored to receive the …
Biography Wendy Weile Zhou is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia and a Faculty Associate at the Public Tech Media Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As a critical-cultural scholar, she studies digital public spheres and transnational journalism industries amid AI development and geopolitical turbulence, …