Rebekah Larsen

Rebekah Larsen is the Old Dominion Career Development Assistant Professor in Comparative Media Studies/Writing. She completed her PhD in sociology at Cambridge University and is a faculty associate at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center. Her work uncovers and analyzes understudied media ecosystems, with special attention to sociotechnical change and power relations within these systems. Recent scholarly sites of inquiry include ethnographic work in conservative, rural media spaces; the new global network of fact-checkers funded by social media platform content moderation contracts; and search engine manipulation of journalists and activists around a controversial privacy regulation. Her publications have variously addressed leaked personal data from platform whistleblowers; trade-offs in platform-journalist partnerships; and changes in the fact-checking field around publics and technologies.