2025 Grant Recipients
Pictured from left to right: Alejandro Hernandez, Rui Li, Richard Scroggins, Claire Lawrence, Rahoof Kaliyarakath
2025 Funded Project Titles
Alejandro Hernandez, 1st year Ph.D. student
“It’s Giving trust – The Role of News Influencers’ authenticity in fostering trust among Gen Z”
Rui Li , 1st year Masters R&T student
“Authenticity of Mother Influencers and Audience Trust on Instagram”
Claire Lawrence, 1st year Masters R&T Student
“Thank U, Next: Hard News Avoidance in Conflict-Avoidant Young Adults”
Rahoof Kaliyarakath, 2nd year Ph.D.
“Journalistic Resistance to State Repression: Insights from the Global South”
2024 Grant Recipients
Pictured from left to right: Christian Artley, Zhi Lin, Richard Scroggins, Sheila Lalwani, Yuzhe Lei
2024 Funded Project Titles
Zhi Lin, 2nd year Ph.D. student
“The role of news consumption and social media use in participatory AI governance and privacy”
Sheila Lalwani, 3rd year Ph.D. student
“A thematic analysis of 42 comments from the public consultation process in the early days of content moderation in Germany”
Christian Artley, 1st year Masters R&T
“Expanding the boundaries of political participation: A study of soft participatory action among post-millennials”
Yuzhe “Julian” Lei, 1st year Master’s R&T
“Does selective perception of internet censorship divide online political expression?”
2023 Grant Recipients
Pictured from left to right: André Rodarte, Edith Hollander, Richard Scroggins, Sungwon Jung and Kayo Mimizuka.
2023 Funded Project Titles
Kayo, Mimizuka, 2nd year Ph.D.
“Japanese social media users and Q-anon”
This paper was presented at ICA 2024 and published in New Media & Society.
Mimizuka, K., Rodarte, A. K., & Arif, A. (2024). On the fly: How Japanese social media “watchers” improvise to counter problematic information. New Media & Society, 14614448241302311.
Andre Rodarte, 2nd year ph.D.
“Who politicians target and represent, & propaganda on FaceBook in Brazil”
His paper was presented at ICA 2024, where it received an award for top student paper from the Political Communication division, and published in the Journal of Political Communication.
Rodarte, A. K. & Lukito, J. (14 Dec 2024). Does social media level the political field or reinforce existing inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian election. Political Communication, DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2024.2439320
Sungwon Jung, 1st year Ph.D. student
‘Thank You All for Following My Journey’: Exploring the Self-Narratives and User Engagement of Disability Community on Tiktok
2022 Grant Recipients
Pictured from left to right: Robert Richardson, Richard Scroggins, Leo Cao, and Omneya Ibrahim
2022 Funded Project Titles
Leo Cao, 3rd year Ph.D. student
“Today’s top picks: One network of canonization by Google Arts & Culture”
Presented at ICA 2022
Omneya Ibrahim, 2nd year Ph.D. student
“To fake or not to fake? Visual rhetorics and deepfakers’ ethical challenges”
Robert Richardson, 3rd year Ph.D. student
“Viewer perceptions of LGBTQ newscasters following identity disclosures”
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