Professor Sora Park

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PhD in Communication | ADR and Professor of Communication at the Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra

Sora Park is the Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Communication at the Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra. She is internationally recognised as an expert in digital media users and media policy, with a special focus on news consumers and digital inclusion.

She has extensive global experience in government and private sector consulting and has a broad range of research expertise ranging from large-scale surveys to in-depth qualitative methods. As the Project Leader of the Digital News Report: Australia, she has an ongoing collaboration with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford tracking digital news consumers through annual surveys of 40+ countries.

Her recent projects include:

  • 2020 – National Association for Media Literacy Education, Media Literacy in Australia: Understanding the needs and developing a national strategy
  • 2020 – Social Media and Democracy Research Grant Competition (SMDR-010-1701), Framing and sharing news on social media
  • 2019 – Google News Initiative, Local News Consumers

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