Dr
Jenny
Hayes
BSc (Liverpool), MSc (Sheffield), PhD (Sheffield)
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
University Teacher in Data Science / Analytics
Full contact details
Room C243
The Wave
- Profile
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I am a university teacher in Data Science following the completion of my PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2022. My PhD, “Palestinian Solidarity on Social Media: The Distribution of Images of Occupation on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by Advocacy Organisations” was an investigation into the ways in which activists shared images and how social media users responded. I currently teach on a range of modules on the Msc Data Science programme, as well as contributing to the undergraduate module Digital Media and Society.
- Research interests
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My research interests are around the use of digital media for activism and social movements. I am especially interested in the ways that social media can be used for visual communication as part of activist strategies. I use mixed-methods in my research, combining both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis of digital media.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Information, Communication & Society, 26(7), 1470-1489.
- Teaching activities
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Data Analysis (INF6029)
Data and Society (INF6033)
Researching Social Media (INF6024)
Digital Media and Society (INF109)
Data Science Foundations and Contexts (INF110)
Statistics for Insight (INF115)