Hi there!

I am an international PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a core member of the ERC-funded research project DigitalValues. My dissertation, supervised by Limor Shifman, focuses on the construction of values by social media platforms.

Broadly, my research critically examines the intersection between platform governance and society.

Find me on Twitter (X?) - @rscarlets, and Mastodon @rscarlets@aoir.social, or sent me an email. (:

I am on the job market for postdoc positions that start summer/fall 2024, with interests in:

  • Platform governance

  • Social Media Research

  • Critical platform studies

  • Inductive & qualitative methodss

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  • January ‘24: Check out our report: Dergacheva, D., Kuznetsova, V., Scharlach, R., & Katzenbach, C. (2023): One Day in Content Moderation: Analyzing 24h of Social Media Platforms’ Content Decisions through the DSA Transparency Database. Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT). Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen. https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/2707.

  • November ‘23: I am currently a fellow at Christian Katzenbach’s Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT) Lab (ZeMKI, University of Bremen)

  • October ‘23: My second Ph.D. paper is out! Check out The value affordances of social media engagement features, written with Blake Hallinan and published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. You can read it here