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Dyah Pitaloka is an Associate Professor in Marketing and Digital Communications and Graduate Research Director at Monash University Indonesia. Previously, she served as Senior Lecturer in Communications and Digital Media at Monash University Malaysia's School of Arts and Social Sciences, Lecturer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney from 2016 to 2019, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore from 2014 to 2016, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications at Diponegoro University from 2001 to 2010. She earned her PhD in Communication from the University of Oklahoma in 2014 as a Fulbright Graduate Fellow sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, MA in Advertising and Strategic Marketing Communication from the University of Leeds in 2001, and Bachelor of Law from Diponegoro University in 1996, graduating top of her class.

Her research examines the social, cultural, political, and policy dynamics of digital technologies and their impacts on health, wellbeing, social inequalities, inclusion, exclusion, and justice in communication and media, with a focus on contexts in Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Australia. Notable publications include Rohman and Pitaloka's "The Continuum of contexts in social media contents for social movement during a crisis: Insights from Vietnamese disability movements during COVID-19" (Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2024), "Contact tracing apps, nationalism, and users with disability in the Global South" (Mobile Media & Communication, 2023), "Disconnected and disabled during the pandemic" (Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2023), and book chapters such as "Performing songs as healing the trauma of the 1965 anti-Communist killing in Indonesia" (Traumatic Pasts in Asia, 2021) and "Performing songs and staging theatre performances: Working through the trauma of the 1965/66 Indonesian mass killings" (Languages of Trauma, 2021). Dyah Pitaloka has received the Research Talent Accelerator Fellowship (2023-2025) to develop gamified educational tools on technology-facilitated sexual violence, Fulbright scholarship, Joint ICA/NCA Health Communication Dissertation Award finalist (2015), Ragan-Kramer-Wieder Qualitative Dissertation Award (2014), and multiple teaching awards including 100% ESSFS satisfaction at Monash Malaysia (2023). She has won grants from the Social Science Research Council, Ford Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and META AR/VR Policy Grant. Her scholarship contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals such as Good Health and Well-being, Gender Equality, Reduced Inequalities, and Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.