Lindita Camaj (Ph.D. Indiana University) is an associate professor at the College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida. She currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and has a research agenda at the intersection of journalism, technology, and political communication.
Generally, Dr.Camaj’s research addresses the role of news and digital media in political processes, connecting journalism with civic engagement in mature and transitional democracies. For example, she has explored causes and consequences of news audience fragmentation; the role of social media for voter deliberation and incivility; media effects on political trust and protest behavior in post-conflict societies; media effects on corruption perceptions; and the impact of transparency policies on journalists’ access to information in a variety of contexts. Most of her work takes a comparative approach and she has an expertise in the Western Balkans. Her latest projects examine citizen engagement with political information in digital spaces during high impact political events in Albania and Kosova, and how that shapes political knowledge and trust.
She is the author of 40 journal articles and book chapters and has given more than 50 presentations at national and international academic conferences. Her work has been awarded by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and recognized nationally and internationally in the form of several grants, awards and keynote speaker invitations.
She teaches classes in Global Journalism; Media, Globalization and Social Change; and World Communication Systems.