Jessica Yarin Robinson

Research interests

Jessica Robinson researches cross-border online political participation, with a focus on user practices in the Scandinavian region. She is interested in how – and if – the potential globality of the web actually manifests in online interactions and what the nature of these interactions means for the traditional definition of the public sphere. Questions driving her work include:

• How do social media users engage with events and political issues originating outside their immediate national sphere?
• What political identities are activated by these cosmopolitan forms of political participation?
• To what degree are flows of misinformation and "echo chambers" transnational phenomena?

Background

Jessica Robinson holds a master's degree in Nordic Media from the University of Oslo and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Southern Oregon University, USA. Before starting her PhD, Jessica worked for The Journal of Media Innovations and as the editorial assistant on the book Contesting Religion: The Media Dynamics of Cultural Conflicts in Scandinavia (De Gruyter, 2018). In 2016, Jessica wrote about patterns of media use in the Nordic region in the updated digital appendix of The Media Welfare State (University of Michigan Press, 2014).

Previously Jessica worked as a journalist for NPR stations in the western United States.

On Twitter: @jessixarobinson