Professor, Communication and Media Studies, University of Calgary
Dr. Maria Bakardjieva holds a Chair in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday Life (2005, Sage) and co-editor of three collections, most recently, Socialbots and their Friends: Digital Media and the Automation of Sociality (Routledge, 2017) with Robert Gehl. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications in leading journals and influential anthologies in the area of Communication and Media Studies with a focus on the Internet and digital media use in various social contexts. Between 2010 and 2013, she served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication published by the International Communication Association. Her current projects investigate the role digital media play in citizen engagement and democratic participation.
Leading an online social movement requires offline work
Apr 04, 2020 06:29 am UTC| Insights & Views
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