Mathilda Åkerlund is a postdoctoral researcher in journalism, media, and communication at the University of Gothenburg, and senior editor for the Journal of Digital Social Research. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Social Research (DIGSUM) at Umeå University, and was a visiting researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute in the fall of 2024. She earned her PhD in sociology from Umeå University in 2022 with the dissertation Far Right Right Here: Interconnections of discourse, platforms, and users in the digital mainstream.
Research Interests
• Misogyny, incels, and male-separatist online communities
• Far-right discourse in Swedish and international digital settings
• Conspiracy theories and digital disinformation
• The role of digital platforms in shaping and spreading political discourse
• Digital research methods
