Martin Riedl, Ph.D.

Martin Riedl is Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

His research investigates platform governance and content moderation, digital journalism, as well as the spread of false and misleading information on social media. Martin Riedl’s research has been published in leading academic outlets such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Digital Journalism, and the Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. His academic work has received numerous awards, including a research prize for professional relevance from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), as well as top paper awards from AEJMC’s Newspaper and Online News Division, and the International Communication Association’s (ICA) Journalism Studies and Communication Law and Policy Divisions. He is also the co-editor of a special issue on political influencers in Social Media and Society. Riedl received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where he also completed a postdoc at the Center for Media Engagement. In 2023 he joined the School of Journalism and Media at UT.

At the invitation of Prof Dr Sahana Udupa (Ethnology, LMU), he is a Visiting Fellow at CAS and part of the CAS Research Group Below the Radar? Messaging Apps, Encryption and the Enticement of Extreme Speech.