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Jen Birks

Associate Professor of Media - Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies

Jen Birks is Associate Professor of Media in the department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies. She researches factchecking journalism, interpretive and analytic journalism, and other news practices that facilitate and mediate public political engagement. She is co-convener of the Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group. Her latest monograph is Fact-checking Journalism and Political Argumentation (Palgrave Pivot, 2019), and she also recently co-edited The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism (Routledge, 2021).

Natalie Martin

Assistant Professor - School of Politics and International Relations

Natalie Martin is a former BBC producer and now Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations. Her research interests revolve around security aspects of information and disinformation focussing especially on the UK and Turkey as case studies. She has published several journal articles and a monograph about the Turkey-EU accession process and associated issues and is the author of The Securitisation of News in Turkey: Journalists as Terrorists (Palgrave 2020). She is currently working on the intersection of journalism and disordered information and its security implications.

Membership Board

George Ogola

Professor of Media Industries - Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies

George Ogola is Professor of Media Industries in the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies. His research focuses on the intersections between (digital) technology and the news media, politics, and popular culture. Some of his outputs include Popular Media in Kenya’s History: Fiction and Newspapers as Socio-Political Actors (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), The Future of Quality Journalism: A Cross-Continental Analysis (London and New York: Routledge, co-edited with Peter Anderson and Michael Williams), The Future of Television in the Global South: Reflections from Selected Countries (London: Palgrave) and AI and Journalism in Africa: Issues and Debates (London: Routledge: Forthcoming).

Chrysi Dagoula

Assistant Professor - International Media and Communications Studies

Chrysi Dagoula is Assistant Professor of International Media and Communications Studies at CMVS, UoN. Her academic research interests concern the developments in digital, social and political communication, and in journalism. She is the author of the book News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation (2023, Routledge) and the co-editor of the volume 6+1 Proposals for Journalism: Safeguarding the Field in the Digital Era (2022, Intellect Books).

Ellen Watts

Assistant Professor - Politics and International Relations

Ellen Watts is an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. She is interested in the intersections between politics and entertainment, especially questions around representation and authority. She has published work on celebrity activists like Emma Watson and Russell Brand, and co-authored work on constructions of authority in economic news. She is also interested in national identities, and is currently developing qualitative methods training for Politics and IR Undergraduates around this topic.

Shixin Ivy Zhang

Associate Professor - Journalism Studies

Shixin Ivy Zhang is an Associate Professor of Journalism Studies at UNNC. She is a specialist in journalism studies and media and conflict, and she has written and (co)-edited six books. Her articles appeared in Journalism, Journalism Studies, and Digital Journalism. She is a member of the editorial board of Digital Journalism (2021-).

Gregory Frame

Teaching Associate - Film and Television Studies

Gregory Frame is Teaching Associate in Film and Television Studies. His research focuses primarily on the politics of US film and television. He has published on these topics in a wide variety of high-profile edited collections and peer-reviewed journals. He is author of The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation (Peter Lang, 2014/2018), and co-editor (with Nathan Abrams) of New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Alein Legacies: The Evolution of the Franchise (Oxford University Press, 2023). His next book, Twilight’s Last Gleaming: US Film and Television Since 2008, is forthcoming.

Fernanda Amaral

Lecturer in Media and Culture - Department of Culture, Media and Visual Studies

Fernanda Amaral is a Lecturer in Media and Culture at the Department of Culture, Media and Visual Studies. She holds a PhD in Media Discourse and is the author of 'Voices from the Favelas: media activism and counter-narratives from below' (2021). Her research focus on the intricate interplay between misrepresentation, violence and voice poverty, analysing the transformations heralded by the introduction of technology into the struggles to produce counter-narratives and counter-memories. Through her interdisciplinary approach, she explores how digital tools can aid marginalised groups to challenge the status quo and empower new cultures of resistance and remembrance.

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Serap Kamaci

PhD Candidate

Serap Kamaci is a PhD candidate from Turkey whose project focuses on fact-checking websites in Azerbaijan.

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