Mariëlle Wijermars
Institution
Maastricht University
Department
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Position
Assistant professor
Country
Netherlands
m.wijermars@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MFqDuT0AAAAJ&hl=en
Information
Dr Mariëlle Wijermars is Assistant Professor in Internet Governance at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Her research examines how authoritarian states, such as Russia, seek to shape and restrict the circulation of information and the role that platform companies play in resisting or facilitating internet censorship. Working at the intersection of Communication and Political Science, she has published extensively on digital authoritarianism, platform governance and internet policy. Wijermars is a member of The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).