Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández

Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the School of Communication at QUT, chief investigator at the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) and Associate Investigator at the national ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

She holds a Ph.D. in Digital Media from the Queensland University of Technology (2018), a MA from the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam, and a BA in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Her research looks at social media cultures, including their racist and socially harmful aspects. She is currently working on a research project examining humour and online safety.

Ariadna’s research has been published in Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Communication, Convergence and other international, peer-reviewed journals.