Roxana Muenster
Graduate Student, Department of Communication
Roxana Mika Muenster is a PhD student in the graduate field of Communications at Cornell University. Her work focuses on social movements, the far-right and digital communication. Currently, she is researching lifestyle politics on the far-right and their role in the online spread of ideology. This has her working across a variety of concepts, such as conspiractorial ideology, disinformation, the AltHealth and cryptocurrency.
Prior to Cornell, Roxana completed her MSc in Politics & Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her BA in Communication and English Linguistics at the FU Berlin. She has a background in journalism, including as the Marjorie Deane Fellow at the Economist, and has worked as a researcher at the FU Berlin, the LSE and Cornell University.
Education
- MSc Politics & Communication, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2021
- BA, Communications Studies and English Literature and Linguistics, Free University of Berlin, 2020
Interests
Digital and political communication, social movements, lifestyle politics, radicalization, collective identity
Awards & Honors
- Cornell Fellowship
- Social Media are not Made Equal: Social Movements’ Front- and Backstage. (2022). Technology in Movements – Movements in Technology. Copenhagen, Denmark. Muenster, R.
- Environmental Issues Are Global Issues – But do environmental communication journals reflect this? A systematic review. (2022). International Communication Association. Toronto, Canada. (Bera, S., Vilchez, A. & Muenster, R. M.)
- Time to Politicization: The Emergence and Effects of Politics on Science YouTube Videos. (2022). International Communication Association. Toronto, Canada. Omapang, A., Greene, B., Chao, Y., Muenster, R. M., & Margolin, D.)
- The charm of cryptocurrencies for white supremacists. (February 5, 2022). The Economist.