Roxana Muenster

Roxana Mika Muenster is a graduate student Department of Communication at Cornell University. She researches social movements and digital communication, with a focus on misinformation, conspiracy, and online extremism. She is particularly interested in how politics creep into ostensibly nonpolitical lifestyle topics, and the role this plays in how ideology is disseminated. Her current research examines the relationship between health misinformation and political ideology on social media and e-commerce platforms; alternative social media platforms; and the ‘tradwife’ movement.

Roxana’s research has appeared in the Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal. She has a background in journalism, including as the Marjorie Deane fellow at The Economist, and was a COMPASS policy fellow at the Brookings Institution. She holds an MSc in Politics & Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Communication and English Linguistics from the Freie Universität Berlin. She is also a graduate affiliate of the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the University of North Carolina and holds