Patricia Rossini

Patricia Rossini (Ph.D, Federal University of Minas Gerais) is a Derby Fellow in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the iSchool at Syracuse University, USA. Her research focuses on online political talk, uncivil discourse, digital campaigns, computational methods, and deliberation. She is the lead investigator of a research project funded by WhatsApp to study misinformation in Brazil, co-principal investigator in a project to devise metrics to assess conversational health, funded by Twitter, and co-PI of a comparative research project funded by Facebook to study visual misinformation on social media and mobile messaging apps in eight countries across five continents. Her work has been published by Social Media+Society, Political Studies, the International Journal of Communication, the Journal of Information, Technology & Politics, and the Journal of Public Deliberation.