Dr Fiona Suwana

Fiona Suwana is a tutor and researcher on Media and Communication at the UniSA Creative. She becomes a course designer and co-course leader for the short course program of the 2021 - 2022 "Democratic Resilience: Youth participation in Indonesia's Democracy" and the 2019 - 2020 “Democratic Resilience - Digital and Media Literacy” by QUT and DFAT Australia Awards Indonesia. She graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy at Digital Media Research Centre, School of Communication - Creative Industries Faculty, QUT – Australia. She also received a Master of Science of Communication Science from Universitas Indonesia and a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) of Communication Studies (Mass Communication) from London School of Public Relations, Jakarta. Her research focuses on digital activism, digital media, digital media literacy, social and political movement, democracy, and young people, specifically civic engagement and political participation to support democratic practices. Her work has been published in Palgrave, Information, Communication and Society, Media Practice and Education, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Kasetsart Journal of Social Science, and Research Report (a commissioned independent study into digital news in Australia for Facebook Australia and accompanied submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - Digital Platforms Inquiry), The Conversation, the Jakarta Post, and book chapters.