Sílvia Majó-Vázquez is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism where she was formerly a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2017 to 2023.

She studies how digital technologies are reconfiguring the news media ecology, borrowing tools from network science, and leveraging digital trace data. Her research agenda considers how people navigate news and political information online and its effects on democracy. Central in her studies is the role of technological platforms in mediating news consumption and shaping people’s attitudes towards media and politics. She has conducted extensive research on the diversity of news media diets across platforms and countries and the specific effects of social media platforms on the ideological and substantive diversity of news consumption.

She has extensively worked on advancing the news audience research field by proposing new methodological approaches to the study of news audience navigation patterns based on developments from network science. Her work has been published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science, Political Communication, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication and Journal of Communication among others. Moreover, her research has been tailored as reports, factsheets, interviews, or policy briefings to help the media industry and journalists in their decision-making processes.

Since 2017, she has published 28 scientific publications and is the leading
author of 19 of them. She has presented her research in 29 international conferences. Currently, she is directly engaged with 4 different international research projects and serve as an expert external advisor in 3 additional ones.  She has developed a research agenda at the intersection of communication, politics, and news consumption. She is also working to advance the field of news audience research and its impacts on democracy by proposing novel methodological approaches based on the role of Artificial Intelligent agents in mediating news consumption. 

Her investigation agenda has been recognized by colleagues in the field through top awards and grants, including the KNAW Early-Career Partnership 2024, the Top Paper by World Association Public Opinion Research 2020 and Ramon y Cajal Fellowship 2023. The latter is the largest grant conceded by the Spanish Ministry of Science to international researchers.  Also, she is serving as the International Liaison of the Computational Methods Division of the International Communication Association. Notably as well, she serves as a reviewer in all top journals of the field (including Political Communication, Journal of Communication and Nature Communication). She has been invited as a keynote speaker to several scientific and international events and have lead policy briefings for international entities including the UNDP, EU, NATO and UK Parliament to outline her research on the integrity of political information on social media. She is regularly requested by top legacy media in Spain or the UK, among others, to comment on the advances in the field. As an example, in 2020, she featured in the documentary on the power of social media broadcasted by ABC Australia. 

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