Rate My Professor Meredith Pruden

Pruden's research focuses on the intersection of feminist media studies and political communication, addressing harmful online content including hate speech, supremacism, and violent extremist communication; research-related trauma, burnout, and resilience in 'risky research'; far-right media and politics such as coercive populist surveillance; mis/disinformation and conspiracism; and related sociotechnical contexts through an intersectional lens. Her award-winning interdisciplinary scholarship has resulted in numerous publications, including 'Making academia suck less: Supporting early career researchers studying harmful content online through a feminist ethics of care' (2024), 'Burn after Reading: Research-Related Trauma, Burnout, and Resilience in Right-Wing Studies' (2024), '#politicalcommunicationsowhite: Race and Politics in Nine Communication Journals, 1991–2021' (2023), 'Identity Construction in a Misogynist Incels Forum' (2023), 'Karen Lee Ashcraft, Wronged and Dangerous: Viral Masculinity and the Populist Pandemic' (2023), 'Weaponizing Reproductive Rights: A Mixed-Method Analysis of White Nationalists' Discussion of Abortions Online' (2022), 'Vaccine discourse in white nationalist online communication: A mixed-methods computational approach' (2022), and 'Setting the Record Straight: Conservative Populism, Swampiness, and Journalistic Practice' (2020). With over 225 citations on ResearchGate, her work contributes to ethical platforms research and inequities in communication scholarship.