Diana Bossio
Faculty Associate
Associate Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University
Bio
Diana Bossio is Associate Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University Melbourne. Her award-winning research focusses on journalism and social media with current research addressing journalism practice on visual social media platforms, wellbeing in journalism and regulation of social media platforms around news content.
Dr Bossio is lead author of Social Media and the politics of reportage: The Arab Spring (with Saba Bebawi, 2014), Journalism and Social Media: Practitioners, Organisations and Institutions (2017) and The Paradox of Connection: How digital media is transforming journalistic labor (with Valerie Belair-Gagnon, Avery Holton and Logan Molyneux, 2024).
At RMIT University, she co-leads the News, Technology and Society (NTS) Research Network. From 2026-2027, Dr Bossio will be Faculty Associate at Public Tech Media Lab and will be working to share new research from the NTS Network on changing news consumption practices with the Lab, participate in research exchanges, and collaborate on internationally funded research opportunities.