大象传媒

Tamara Bodden 

Postdoctoral Fellow 
Email: tamara_janna_bodden@sfu.ca

has received a  from the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation in Germany to come to 大象传媒 and work under the supervision of Dr. Maite Taboada. Bodden recently accepted a faculty position at the University of Koblenz. 

Bodden will be studying a very topical issue: the toxicity of video game conversations, the type of commentary that happens along a live video gaming session on platforms like Twitch, the most popular video game streaming service. She plans to collect data under a careful study design and analyze it using some of the tools developed in Taboada鈥檚 Discourse Processing Lab. 

Says Taboada, 鈥淒r. Bodden鈥檚 is an innovative idea, with the potential for important applications in digital media studies and content moderation, currently one of the most important topics in internet discourse. Dr. Bodden鈥檚 expertise in digital communication will be an asset to my lab, where trainees will benefit from her international perspective and her background in cultural studies.鈥�

Timeline of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
2025-07-01 to 2025-09-30
2026-01-12 to 2026-04-12
2026-07-13 to 2026-10-11