Marília Gehrke

About

Marília Gehrke is an Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and a fellow at the Digital Democracy Center (DDC) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), where she was a postdoctoral researcher in the “Trust and News Authenticity” project. In the past, she did research in data journalism, transparency, fact-checking, and disinformation, the latter with a recent focus on gender.

For her fellowship at Weizenbaum Institute, affiliated with the research group “Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda”, she will focus on answering the question, “How are gender and race deployed in (visual) online disinformation?”. This phenomenon will be examined empirically and cross-countries, with data and decolonial feminism as theoretical lenses.

Marília Gehrke was one of the winners of the Jantina Tammes School Early Career Prize 2024 at the University of Groningen, from which she created the project “Forced to Quit” to map female politicians, journalists, and activists who had to leave the public sphere due to violence, including gendered disinformation.

Research Group: Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda (24.3.2025 - 7.4.2025)