- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
Dr. Ashwin Nagappa is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the QUT node of ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). He is a recipient of the 2024 AXA Post-Doctoral Fellowship (for the theme ‘Navigating misinformation and trust erosion in the digital age’). His research centres on emerging decentralized social media platforms, analyzing how they mitigate online harm and address challenges such as misinformation, hate speech, and polarization. Ashwin is also involved in the Australian Search Experience 2.0 project, where he examines how search engines influence everyday data practices and knowledge sharing, particularly in relation to upholding public interest values like diversity and social cohesion.
Experience
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2024–presentPost Doctoral Research Fellow, QUT
Education
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2024Queensland University of Technology, PhD in Digital Media
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2015Tata Institute of Social Sciences, MA in Media And Cultural Studies
Publications
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2026The entangled dynamics leading to the sedimentation of polarisation on political Reddit, Information Communication and Society
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2026Framing the future of search: A discourse analysis of Google’s AI Overviews, Discourse and Communication
Grants and Contracts
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2024AXA Research Fund Post Doctoral Fellowship
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- AXA Research Fund
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- Location: Brisbane, Australia
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