Stefanie Ullmann

Stefanie Ullmann an Affiliate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Stefanie studied English Linguistics and Web Technology at the University of Marburg in Germany.

She completed her PhD in Linguistics focusing on a critical corpus-assisted study of media and political coverage of the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions.

She is the author of the monograph Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics (Routledge, 2022). Stefanie’s overall research interests and background are in functional linguistics, critical theory and discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, new media and communication technologies as well as the instrumentalization of language in states of socio-political conflict and crisis.

Her most recent work has focused on quarantining online hate speech, mis/disinformation, gender bias in machine translation, dynamic data statements and exploring counterspeech approaches to fighting dangerous speech.

She is the editor of an upcoming anthology on counterspeech, which will be published in the Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society series.