Hanan Badr (Dr. phil. Universität Erfurt, 2013) is Full Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Salzburg, Austria. As Chair for Public Spheres and Inequalities her work focuses on comparing media systems, activism and digital public spheres, de-westernizing communication research, and how globalization and digitization transform journalism. She held positions at Freie Universität Berlin, Cairo University, Gulf University for Sciences and Technology and Orient-Institut Beirut/Max Weber Foundation. Her work was published in Digital Journalism, International Communication Gazette. Media and Communication and Media, War & Conflict. She is Associate Editor on Journal of Communication and serves on the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Communication, Digital Journalism and Middle East Journal of culture and Communication. Hanan won awards including the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and the DAAD Scholarship Award. She was elected as a Vice-Chair for the Activism, Communication and Social Change at the International Communication Association