ARIADNA MATAMOROS-FERNÁNDEZ
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ariadna.matamorosfernandez@qut.edu.au
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Dr Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).
Ariadna is an affiliate at UCD and an adjunct at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She has established an international reputation and a substantial ongoing research agenda around platform studies, harmful content and behaviour online, and the development of digital methods to study socio-technical systems.
Her research has been published in New Media & Society; Information, Communication & Society; Television & New Media; Internet Policy Review; Feminist Media Studies and other international, peer-reviewed journals. She is also co-author of the book WhatsApp: From a One-to-one Messaging App to a Global Communication Platform (Polity) and is currently preparing an edited collection on Platforms and Society with QUT colleagues (under review with De Gruynter). For a full publication list please see Ariadna’s Google Scholar Profile.
Ariadna is also involved in an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on Australian experiences of algorithmic culture on TikTok (DP240102939) with colleagues at QUT and the University of Sydney. She was also an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research (DECRA) Fellow (2023-2025) (DE230101558). Her DECRA project examined harmful humour’s impact on women’s wellbeing online, how it is poorly managed by social media platforms and has not been integrated into online safety regulation and policy. The project brought together sociocultural theory, social media analysis, and interviews to better understand the dynamics of harmful humour online in Australia.
In 2023, she was elected Open Seat in the Executive Committee (two-year term) of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Ariadna has also consulted and provided advice for industry and government, including Meta Platforms, Google, the Australian eSafety Commissioner and Ofcom.
