Hi there!
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the “Platform Governance, Media, & Technology” Lab, ZeMKI, University of Bremen. I am leading the research project “Re-evaluating Governing Principles: Navigating the Integration of Generative AI in Everyday Communication Systems”.
I received my PhD from the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in September 2024. My dissertation, supervised by Limor Shifman, was written within the framework of the ERC-funded research project DigitalValues.
Find me on Bluesky - @rscarlets, and Mastodon @rscarlets@aoir.social, or send me an email. (:
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December ‘24: Alex Turvy & I wrote a piece out now in Tech Policy Press exploring the paradoxes of social media bans. We focus on the looming US TikTok ban, but also discuss Australia’s upcoming age-based social media restrictions: https://www.techpolicy.press/the-tiktok-ban-paradox-how-platform-restrictions-create-what-they-aim-to-prevent/
October ‘24: I started my postdoc with Christian Katzenbach at the PGMT Lab, University of Bremen: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7252634135557484544/
September ‘24: I am now Dr. Scharlach (:
September ‘24: My first solo paper & last Ph.D. paper is out! It’s called “How to Spark Joy: Strategies of Depoliticization in Platform’s Corporate Social Initiatives” and published (open access) in Social Media + Society. You can read it here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241277601
May ‘24: Check out my blog post on the US TikTok ban
April ‘24: Excited to share that I submitted my PhD thesis!!