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Academia

I successfully completed my PhD degree at the University of Sussex in May 2025, where I explored critical thinking of young people in the case of YouTube. In my research, I focused on YouTube influencers, current social media trends, audiences and fandom, the theory of critical thinking, ethical and practical problems in a research with children and young people, participatory and digital methods, ethnography and use of thematic inductive analysis.

 

Click here to read my full thesis. 

I have been teaching digital media, content creation, data journalism, journalism skills and media ethics since 2019.

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© 2026 by Dr Evelyn Polacek Kery (BA, MA, PhD, FHEA)

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