Dr. Are has long brown hair and stands in front of a pole. She has red heart=shaped sunglasses that she holds on top of her head. She smiles at the camera.
Dr. Carolina Are
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Dr. Carolina Are is an Innovation Fellow at Northumbria University’s Centre for Digital Citizens. Her research observes the intersection of online abuse and censorship. Her work on social media moderation, platform governance and algorithm bias has been published leading academic journals such as New Media + Society, Social Media + Society and Feminist Media Studies, in which she authored the first academic study on the shadowbanning of pole dancing. Dr Are’s work has been featured in the BBC, MIT Technology Review, Business Insider, Vice, Wired and Mashable, as well as in a series of bestselling books. She is also a blogger and creator herself, as well as a writer, pole dance instructor and award-winning activist at @bloggeronpole.