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.

 

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I have been teaching digital media, content creation, data journalism, journalism skills and media ethics at the University of West London since January 2024 and at the Middlesex University since 2019, where I also supervised BA and MSc dissertations.