Martin Johannes Riedl

Martin J. Riedl works on the nexus of platform governance and content moderation, digital journalism, as well as the spread of false and misleading information on social media. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His ongoing work focuses on platform governance and violence, the politics of trust and safety, encrypted messaging and chat applications, and political influencers on social media.

Featured works

Riedl, M. J., El-Masri, A., Trauthig, I. K., & Woolley, S. C. (2025). Infrastructural platform violence: How women and queer journalists and activists in Lebanon experience abuse on WhatsApp. New Media & Society, 27(9), 5045–5064. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241248372

Brown, M. A., Lukito, J., Pruden, M. L., & Riedl, M. J. (2024). Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care. New Media & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241303999

Riedl, M. J., Martin, Z. C., & Woolley, S. C. (2024). ‘I get suppressed:’ Pro-and anti-abortion activists’ folk theories of platform governance and shadowbanning. Information, Communication & Society, 27(11), 2153–2170. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2289976

Jia, C., Riedl, M. J., & Woolley, S. (2024). Promises and perils of automated journalism: Algorithms, experimentation, and “teachers of machines” in China and the United States. Journalism Studies, 25(1), 38–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2289881

Riedl, M. J., Lukito, J., & Woolley, S. C. (2023). Political influencers on social media: An introduction. Social Media + Society, 9(2), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231177938