Rate My Professor Rachel Billington

Billington's research specializations are recognition theory, critical phenomenology, adolescent identity development, social media personalisation and polarisation, and epistemic injustice in the algorithmic era. She is listed as part-time academic staff in the Politics programme. Major publications include her authored book Adolescence, identity, and the politics of recognition in the social media era: Being and becoming after the algorithmic turn (Routledge, 2026, 256p), the co-authored research article “All that from two symbols?!': An Adolescence roundtable” (Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 2026, advance online publication, with R. Overell, B. Nicholls, M.S. Daubs, and C. Fowler), verbal conference contribution “Recognition, identity, and technojustice in the Algorithmic Age: The affective politics of young people in Aotearoa New Zealand” at the New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA/TKTToA) 2023/24 Annual Conference in Auckland (2024), and published proceedings “Recognition and identity in the digital age: The affective politics of young people on social media” from the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences Annual Conference (2023).