Sílvia Majó-Vázquez is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism where she was formerly a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2017 to 2023.
She studies how digital technologies are reconfiguring the news media ecology, borrowing tools from network science, and leveraging digital trace data. Her research agenda considers how people navigate news and political information online and its effects on democracy. Central in her studies is the role of technological platforms in mediating news consumption and shaping people’s attitudes towards media and politics. She has conducted extensive research on the diversity of news media diets across platforms and countries and the specific effects of social media platforms on the ideological and substantive diversity of news consumption.
She has extensively worked on advancing the news audience research field by proposing new methodological approaches to the study of news audience navigation patterns based on developments from network science. Her work has been published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science, Political Communication, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication and Journal of Communication among others. Moreover, her research has been tailored as reports, factsheets, interviews, or policy briefings to help the media industry and journalists in their decision-making processes.
