Tina Askanius
Professor

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Tina Askanius is professor in media and communication studies at the School of Arts and Communication, and co-director of the transdisciplinary research centre Imagining and Co-Creating Futures (ICF) at Malmö University. Her work explores the intersections of social movements and digital media, with research spanning social justice activism, media practices, and the role of digital media in the mobilisation of far-right extremism and white supremacist movements. Her current projects explore the entanglements of far-right digital cultures and female-fronted misogyny across the digital cultures, platforms and political actors involved in advancing anti-rights politics and reactionary agendas in this moment of democratic backsliding.

As part of international debates and research projects on these issues, she is currently involved in a Horizon Europe project examining the circulation and mainstreaming of extremist narratives in public discourse across domains such as migration, gender, climate change, and public health (OppAttune, 2023-2026). As an affiliated researcher at Södertörn University, she is part of the project Networked misogyny in Sweden, Germany and Russia: articulations, intersections and transnational flows (Baltic Sea Foundation, 2024-2026) exploring online discourse at the intersection of fascist ideology, misogyny and the current wave of so-called reactionary feminism.