Rebekah Larsen

Rebekah Larsen

Marie Curie Fellow (University of Copenhagen) and Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center (Harvard)

Research

Research Project - Alternative Media Ecosystems

This research stream engages explicitly with media environments deeply affected by religion, rurality, and radio. Currently, I am exploring the Utah media ecosystem as an insightful case study, mapping actors, networks, technologies, digital identities, and cultural/ideological influences.



Image taken during fieldwork during US elections, which included interviews at several talk radio stations. This image was taken in Carbon county, a rural region with a deep history of oil and coal production.

Book Project - The Right to be Forgotten Decade

The Right to Be Forgotten Decade: Definitional Battles and Platform Power is my first solo monograph. It operationalizes and historicizes platform power through a topical analysis, demonstrating how platform companies manipulated headlines and technical newsroom operations.

This is a network rendering of the most visible sources for coverage of a controversial privacy concept in the 2010s.

Research Collaborative - Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation

This team of international scholars engages in critical, empirical analysis of the challenges tech and platform companies, fact checking organisations, and journalists face when addressing disinformation. The ‘SCAM’ project also explores ways to detect and counter disinformation, specifically during periods of elections.


Image from the 2022 Global Fact conference, the annual fact checking summit, which was hosted by the team in Oslo.