Friends & Affiliates
MSMC is more than a research hub — it’s a growing international community of scholars, professionals and thinkers.
Our academic network includes affiliated scholars, visiting faculty, and early-career researchers who engage with our School’s activities through research, teaching, and intellectual exchange.
Some have been awarded short-term visiting fellowships, others have presented their work during our regular seminars.
All of them contribute to the lively, open, and evolving intellectual environment that defines MSMC.
Affiliated Scholars
Pablo Boczkowski
Northwestern University
Digital culture; Comparative research; Ethnography; Mental health; Work & professions
Nicholas Carah
University of Queensland
Brands; Algorithms; Platforms;
Data donation
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Janice Denegri-Knott
Bournemouth University
Critical marketing; AI; Consumer culture & behaviour; Digital consumption; Digital advertising
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Stine Lomborg
University of Copenhagen
Datafication; Disconnection, Media Infrastructures
Masoumeh Mansuri
University of Birmingham
Critical and humanist AI studies; Cultural robotics; Human-robot ethnographic methods; Integrated Reasoning in Robotics; Hybrid Knowledge Representation for Robotics
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Sylvain Parasie
Sciences Po
Digial and computational methods; Political communication
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Katy Parry
University of Leeds
Visual communication and photojournalism; Visual media activism; Political communication; War and the media; Military veterans in the media; Visual research methods
Colin Porlezza
Università della Svizzera Italiana
Digital Journalism; Artificial Intelligence; Journalism Innovation; Media Accountability
Chamil Rathnayake
University of Strathclyde
Computer-mediated Publics;
Social Network Analysis
Maja Šimunjak
University of Zagreb
Journalism; Political Communication; Digital Media
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Visiting Scholars
COMING SOON
Visiting Post-Docs, PhDs and Doctoral Candidates
MSMC and the Department of Social and Political Sciences are always pleased to welcome visiting PhD candidates and early-career researchers.
Our Midweek Conversations offer a valuable opportunity to present ongoing work, receive feedback, and engage with a vibrant academic community.
You can explore some of the research projects presented during past meetings in the list below.
- Francesco Vittonetto – Griffith University
The transnationalisation of PRR (populist radical right) publics on YouTube
- Ertelthalner Victoria – LMU Munich
- Diana Moret i Soler – Universitat Jaume I
Climate Influencers: Narratives and Counter-Hegemonic Strategies of the ‘Voices of Change’ on X
- Elisabetta Petrucci – Roskilde University
News Making Between Datastructures and Expected Reception: the Epistemological Capture of Journalistic Knowledge Production
- Ester Martínez Sanzo – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence Regulation in Spain and Italy
- Alice Junman – Uppsala Universitet
The Intersection Between Influencer Culture and the Political Field in Sweden