University of Wisconsin–Madison
Biography Eric Boansi Agyekum is a PhD student at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores journalism practice and counter-misinformation interventions, with a focus on their political, social and epistemic consequences. Prior to joining SJMC, Eric was an assistant lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Journalism Campus of University …
Biography Caroline Anipah is a PhD student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications (SJMC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the founder of the Centre for Media and Digital Literacy (CMDiL), a non-governmental organisation aimed at building the digital and media competence of young people and non-literate adults in Ghana. Caroline also …
Bio Life has taken me everywhere, from serving aboard aircraft carriers in the US Navy, to pressing camera lenses against the cage at some of the UFC’s biggest events, to creating content for the Chicago Police Department. My storytelling career began when I was a reporter at a small newspaper in Chicago that catered to …
Bio Roger Cuartielles is a researcher in the Department of Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), where he is a member of the Political Communication, Journalism and Democracy Research Group (POLCOM-GRP). His research examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping journalism, with a particular focus on fact-checking, information verification, media accountability, media literacy, and public …
Biography Agustin Ferrari Braun is a PhD researcher at the AlgoSoc Consortium, affiliated with the Media Studies Department and the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam. His doctoral research focuses of the politics of digital infrastructures in the European news media ecosystem. Agustin’s research interest include political economy of media, media theory, …
Bio Ivan Gallegos is a PhD candidate in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. He also served as a lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Davao del Norte State College in the Philippines. His research critically examines the intersections of media, infrastructure, and futurity, with a particular interest in …
Bio Babette is a PhD researcher in the Media, Information and Persuasion Lab at KU Leuven (Belgium). Here, she is finishing her dissertation under the guidance of Prof. Michaël Opgenhaffen (KU Leuven) and Prof. Peter Van Aelst (University of Antwerp). Her research focuses on fact-check exposure and effectiveness, and how they can operate as tools …
Biography Leonor is a Ph.D. student at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include health communication and media effects. Leonor holds a Bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Antioquia and a Master’s degree in political studies from the National University of Colombia. She was …
Bio Danbi Kim is a second-year Ph.D. student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests center on power dynamics within contemporary platform environments, with a particular focus on the agency of individuals in resisting dominant social and technological systems. She has published her papers in Social …
Bio Matt Lawrence is a professional intelligencer turned practitioner-academic. He started his career in the British Army’s Intelligence Corps before crafting intelligence tradecraft around tech and data in the private sector. Over the last few years, he has been working alongside the online investigative community as a director at the Center for Information Resilience, and …