Claire Fitzpatrick

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Dr Claire Fitzpatrick is a Communications Lecturer at Edith Cowan University. She specialises in Political Communications and has extensive experience deploying mixed methods to understand how social media networks enable and constrain political behaviour, with a particular emphasis on how deliberative democracy enables the pursuit of individual, activist and regulatory goals. Her critical feminist approach draws on interdisciplinary research at the intersections of politics and media, gender and race, and social movements in civil society.

Experience

  • 2024–2026
    Dr, Edith Cowan University, School of Arts and Humanities

Education

  • 2021 
    Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Doctor of Philosophy
  • 2013 
    Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, BA with First Class Honours

Publications

  • 2026
    Media and democracy, Sydney University Press
  • 2026
    #ShoutYourAbortion and being heard: the affordances of hashtags for feminist counterpublics in hostile digital atmospheres, Australian Journal of Political Science
  • 2025
    Mother of the Nation? Jacinda Ardern, social media and the politics of motherhood, Political Science
  • 2025
    Signs of Democratic Resilience Following Aotearoa New Zealand’s March 15th Mosque Attacks, Political Studies Review
  • 2025
    Solidarity and Deliberation After Extremist Attacks: Exploring a Complex Interplay, The Journal of Politics
  • 2025
    Bouncing Back or Forward? Two Approaches to Democratic Resilience After Extremist Attacks, Political Studies
  • 2023
    The Crooked Platform, Social Media+ Society
  • 2023
    Trends untold: a mixed methods analysis of feminist politics and discourses of empathy in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings, Feminist Media Studies
  • 2023
    Claiming collectivity: the socio-political affects of hashtagging “us”, International Feminist Journal of Politics

Grants and Contracts

  • 2025
    Bridging the gap between young people and politics: Student developed strategies for enhancing deliberative democracy
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Edith Cowan University

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