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Assistant Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mriedl1@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

865-974-0527<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Johannes Riedl joined the School of Journalism and Media faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2023. His research investigates platform governance and content moderation, digital journalism, as well as the spread of false and misleading information on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riedl\u2019s research has been published in leading academic outlets such as New Media and Society<\/em>, Information, Communication and Society<\/em>, Digital Journalism<\/em>, and the Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Riedl also is the co-editor of a special issue on political influencers in Social Media + Society<\/em>. His research has been covered by industry outlets such as Harvard\u2019s Nieman Lab<\/em>, the Mozilla Foundation<\/em>, and the Poynter Institute<\/em>, and news organizations like CBS News<\/em>, Agence France Presse (AFP)<\/em>, and Voice of America.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riedl\u2019s writing has appeared through Teen Vogue<\/em>, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace<\/em>, and the Brookings Institution\u2019s TechStream<\/em>. He has been invited to present his work before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus of the 117th U.S. Congress, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s (DARPA) Information Science and Technology study group, as well as think tanks and academic centers such as the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin, Germany, and the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • PhD, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • MA, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • MA, Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media, Hanover, Germany<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • BA, FHWien der WKW, Vienna, Austria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Research Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    • Social media<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Digital journalism<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Platform governance<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Content moderation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • False and misleading information<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Political influencers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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