Nelanthi Hewa, PhD

Dr. Nelanthi Hewa is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.

She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information in 2024.

Her work critically examines journalism labour, digital media, and intersections of identity in topics such as news coverage of sexual violence, racialized writers’ work on Substack, and GamerGate.

Her research has been published in several journals, including Communication, Culture and Critique, New Media & Society, and Feminist Media Studies.