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Associate Professor
Michelle Riedlinger
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Michelle Riedlinger is a Chief Investigator in the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) and an Associate Investigator with the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Her research interests include emerging environmental, agricultural and health research communication practices, roles for “alternative” science communicators, online fact checking, platformised engagement with scientific research, and, most recently, generative authenticity. She leads an Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project considering the impacts of GenAI technologies on scholarly communication. The project builds on the teams’ past research efforts investigating the platformisation of research discovery, digital disruptions to academic research communication, critical digital literacy in academic environments, AI’s cultures of use, ethics and policy implications.Michelle coordinates QUT's Global Engagement Theme in the Global Journalism Innovation Lab and she has been a co-investigator on Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded projects investigating the online circulation of health research and online explanatory journalism. As a communication consultant, she has worked on projects focussed on climate variability, dryland salinity, terrestrial ecology, catchment management, and river health. She has facilitated over two hundred communication training workshops for researchers. Michelle is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Science Communication (JCOM).
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Qualifications
- Dr of Philosophy (Communication) (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Global Network, member Australian Science Communicators (ASC), member International Communication Association (ICA), member International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), member Association for Internet Researchers (AoIR), member
Publications
- Gascoigne, T., Schiele, B., Leach, J., Riedlinger, M., Lewenstein, B., Massarani, L. & Broks, P. (2020). Communicating Science: A Global Perspective. ANU Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206922
- Fleerackers, A., Riedlinger, M., Moorhead, L., Ahmed, R. & Alperin, J. (2022). Communicating Scientific Uncertainty in an Age of COVID-19: An Investigation into the Use of Preprints by Digital Media Outlets. Health Communication, 37(6), 726–738. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207221
- Makmillen, S. & Riedlinger, M. (2021). Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing: A case study of genre innovation. Text and Talk, 41(2), 165–185. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202204
- Metcalfe, J. & Riedlinger, M. (2020). Public understanding of science: Popularisation, perceptions and publics. In D. Gruber & L. Olman (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science (pp. 32–46). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206775
- Fahnrich, B., Riedlinger, M. & Weitkamp, E. (2020). Activists as 'alternative' science communicators - Exploring the facets of science communication in societal contexts. Journal of Science Communication, 19(6), Article C01. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206902
- Riedlinger, M., Metcalfe, J., Baram-Tsabari, A., Entradas, M., Joubert, M. & Massarani, L. (2019). Telling stories in science communication: Case studies of scholar-practitioner collaboration. Journal of Science Communication, 18(5), Article N01. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203716
- Riedlinger, M., Barata, G. & Schiele, A. (2019). The landscape of science communication in contemporary Canada: A focus on Anglophone actors and networks. Cultures of Science, 2(1), 51–63. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202342
- Riedlinger, M., Chapman, C. & Mitchell, P. (2019). Location awareness and geodata sharing practices of Australian smartphone users. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132000
- Davis, L., Fahnrich, B., Nepote, A., Riedlinger, M. & Trench, B. (2018). Environmental communication and science communication-conversations, connections and collaborations. Environmental Communication, 12(4), 431–437. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203931
- Riedlinger, M. & Rea, J. (2015). Discourse ecology and knowledge niches: Negotiating the risks of radiation in online Canadian forums, post-Fukushima. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 40(4), 588–614. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203996
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Supervision
Current supervisions
- Disinformation as policy assemblage: Disassembling the actors and problematisations of disinformation policymaking in Australia to forge policy alternatives
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Axel Bruns - Generating Truths: Exploring the Intersection of Generative AI and Independent Fact Checking
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Distinguished Professor Jean Burgess - Generative AI in Academic Writing: A Comparative Study of Ethical Challenges and Institutional Responses
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Peta Mitchell - Representations of radiation: case studies of traditional media reporting, and the cylinders that have driven that reporting
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Stephen Harrington - Telegram War: Myanmar News Channels as Political Weapons
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Katharina Esau, Dr Ehsan Dehghan - White culture' in Third Spaces: Traces of Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, and Misogyny in Everyday Online Interactions
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Sebastian Svegaard, Professor Axel Bruns
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Climate Change "Hoax" Hashtags on Instagram: Multimodal Discourse in Social Media Mis/disinformation Posts (2026)
- From Ad Hoc Publics to Polarisation: Mapping the Online Conversations on Sexual Violence in Indonesia (2025)
- How bilinguals and monolinguals understand and talk about uncertainty and risk: An exploration of epistemic modality in healthcare contexts (2024)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
Supervision topics
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.