Senior Research Fellow @qutdmrc.bsky.social, Pol Comm, Digital Publics, Democratic Innovation, Automated & Relational Content & Sequence Analysis, interested in news media, polarisation & opinion formation online: https://shorturl.at/4WIcPhttps://bsky.app/profile/kathaesa.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kathaesa.bsky.social/post/3mge6uwclac24Thanks (Danke!) to @lisamerten.bsky.social, @ahrabhikat.bsky.social & Helena Rauxloh for visiting us at @qutdmrc.bsky.social for our UA-DAAD project on mapping destructive polarisation across news media outlets in Germany and Australia! Lots of progress! Next stop: Hamburg in September.06 Mar 2026 01:45 +0000at://did:plc:mp6cdfpou6dpywfnmtigzaco/app.bsky.feed.post/3mge6uwclac24https://bsky.app/profile/kathaesa.bsky.social/post/3mcivt62lcs2zPlanning to start a PhD in Media and Communications in 2026? Come work with me and others at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social! ✨ [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jan 2026 01:06 +0000at://did:plc:mp6cdfpou6dpywfnmtigzaco/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcivt62lcs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/kathaesa.bsky.social/post/3mcbrabq72t2d📢 PhD Scholarship at QUT to join my DECRA project "Democratic Resilience Online: Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats" @qutdmrc.bsky.social 📅 Applications close: 13/03/2026 More info here: https://www.qut.edu.au/study/fees-and-scholarships/scholarships/strengthening-public-opinion-formation-amid-digital-threats-phd-scholarship Please share and reach out if you have questions!13 Jan 2026 04:55 +0000at://did:plc:mp6cdfpou6dpywfnmtigzaco/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcbrabq72t2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/kathaesa.bsky.social/post/3m7jdffkmsc2aHonoured to be part of this cohort: five QUT researchers awarded a 2025 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award $2.53M in total funding 🎉 Grateful for the support by QUT and DMRC @qutdmrc.bsky.social, www.qut.edu.au/news?id=202811 https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=20281109 Dec 2025 00:53 +0000at://did:plc:mp6cdfpou6dpywfnmtigzaco/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7jdffkmsc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/kathaesa.bsky.social/post/3m6xuhraigc2rI’m so happy and humbled to share that I’ve been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA26) ($528,013 + 1 PhD scholarship funded by QUT) for my project "Democratic Resilience Online: Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats" 🥳🎉02 Dec 2025 02:11 +0000at://did:plc:mp6cdfpou6dpywfnmtigzaco/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6xuhraigc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/kathaesa.bsky.social/post/3m6v63gddmk2n@jeraaaus.bsky.social #JERAA2025 opens with a keynote by Natalie Fenton, where she builds a brilliant argument about why we need to let go of the ideal of independent journalism and acknowledge journalism as interdependent, which enables questioning power relations.01 Dec 2025 00:25 +0000at://did:plc:mp6cdfpou6dpywfnmtigzaco/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6v63gddmk2n