Nelanthi
Hewa

Hi! I'm a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information. I write about how the labour conditions of journalists and ideas around privacy/publicity online shape and structure the coverage of sexual violence in Canada.

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My work is supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship, and I'm affiliated with the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory and the Knowledge Media Design Institute.

 

I also received a research grant from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in 2021 to support the research project, "The process of decentering Whiteness": Newsletters, journalists of color, and the entrepreneurial push.

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You can find my work in Feminist Media Studies, Journalism Studies, First Monday and New Media & Society. Please feel free to reach out for speaking engagements or collaborations.