Personal details
- Name
- Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez
- Position(s)
- Lecturer
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Communication - Phone
- +61 7 3138 0007
- ariadna.matamorosfernandez@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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Doctor in Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Professional memberships
and associations Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Digital Media Research Centre
- Keywords
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social media, racism, anti-racism, WhatsApp, content moderation, extreme right, platform governance, digital methods, hate speech, memes
Biography
Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández is a Lecturer in Digital Media in the School of Communication at QUT, and member of the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). She holds a Ph.D. in Digital Media from the Queensland University of Technology (2018), a MA from the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam, and a BA in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on the influence of digital media technologies in everyday communication, with particular attention to controversial practices on different platforms. This includes new forms of racist and anti-racist practices; visual content like political memes in relation to hate speech and platform governance; and the influence of algorithms in shaping everyday life. Ariadna has experience in developing new methods to study digital platforms, and her research has been published in Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Communication, Convergence and other international, peer-reviewed journals.
Teaching
Unit Coordinator – CCB202 Social Media, Self and Society (undergraduate unit)
Unit Coordinator – CCB303 Digital Media project (undergraduate unit)
Unit Coordinator – CCN105 The Power of Platforms (postgraduate unit)
Publications
- Matamoros-Fernandez A, (2020) 'El Negro de WhatsApp' meme, digital blackface, and racism on social media, First Monday
- Gillespie T, Aufderheide P, Carmi E, Gerrard Y, Gorwa R, Matamoros-Fernandez A, Roberts S, Sinnreich A, West S, (2020) Expanding the debate about content moderation: Scholarly research agendas for the coming policy debates, Internet Policy Review p1-29
- Rieder B, Coromina O, Matamoros-Fernandez A, (2020) Mapping YouTube: A quantitative exploration of a platformed media system, First Monday
- Baulch E, Matamoros-Fernandez A, Johns A, (2020) Introduction: Ten years of WhatsApp: The role of chat apps in the formation and mobilization of online publics, First Monday
- Rieder B, Matamoros Fernandez A, Coromina O, (2018) From ranking algorithms to 'ranking cultures': Investigating the modulation of visibility in YouTube search results, Convergence p50-68
- Matamoros Fernandez A, (2018) Inciting anger through Facebook reactions in Belgium: The use of emoji and related vernacular expressions in racist discourse, First Monday p1-20
- Dragiewicz M, Burgess J, Matamoros Fernandez A, Salter M, Suzor N, Woodlock D, Harris B, (2018) Technology facilitated coercive control: Domestic violence and the competing roles of digital media platforms, Feminist Media Studies p609-625
- Matamoros Fernandez A, (2017) Platformed racism: the mediation and circulation of an Australian race-based controversy on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, Information, Communication and Society p930-946
- Ben-David A, Matamoros Fernandez A, (2016) Hate speech and covert discrimination on social media: monitoring the Facebook pages of extreme-right political parties in Spain, International Journal of Communication p1167-1193
- Burgess J, Matamoros Fernandez A, (2016) Mapping sociocultural controversies across digital media platforms: one week of #gamergate on Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr, Communication Research and Practice p79-96
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- No place for racism on digital platforms? Evaluating content moderation practices on Maltese social media through the lens of substantive equality
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Nicolas Suzor - A controversy analysis of Tesla's (big) battery in Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Peta Mitchell - Decoding the political discourse of Internet meme subcultures using pragmasemiotic methods
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jean Burgess, Associate Professor Daniel Angus - Hashtag & Prejudice: The Discourse of Ethical Fashion Activism on Instagram
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Ms Kathleen Horton