Head of Digital Media and Communication BA Program / Professor

A brief description of the experience

Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of South Carolina. MA in Communication from Louisiana State University. Has many years of consulting and research experience in both international and local organizations in the field of communications, media landscape, technology implementation and journalism education, cooperates with leading organizations such as "Open Society Institute", USAID, UNDP, BBC Media Action and Internews. Author of more than 20 research papers, including textbook chapters and articles. In the 1990s, her journalistic career began at the newspaper 7 Days, she was a contributor for Global Voices Online. Her international exposure includes fellowships at Duke University, the DeWitt Wallace Center, and a visiting fellowship at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Courses: 

• Communication research;
• Disinformation and Fact-checking;
• Research methods in social sciences;
• New media and technologies
• Academic writing
• News reporting

Research and Publications: 

Keshelashvili, A. and Mikashavidze, M. (2023). Information Diet of The South Caucasus: Exploratory Study of Information Consumption and Resilience to Disinformation. Kronos, Issue #2

https://respublica.edu.mk/zurnal/volume-2-no-1-march-2023/information-diet-of-the-south-caucasus-exploratory-study-of-information-consumption-and-resilience-to-disinformation/?lang=en

Center for Media, Information and Social Research (2023). Resilience to disinformation at the regional level in Georgia. 

https://cmis.ge/projects/rdri/en

Mikashavidze, M., Keshelashvili, A. & Menabde, M. (2021). Who is afraid of online arguments? Self-censorship in Georgia’s social media discourse, ICA pre-conference "Comparative Perspectives on Negativity, Incivility, and Toxic Talk in Political Discussion", May 27, Online 

Internews (2021). Georgia: An Information Ecosystem Assessment 

https://internews.org/resource/georgia-information-ecosystem-assessment/

European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) research project (2019) Journalistic Roles, Values and Qualifications in the 21st Century; how journalism educators in Europe view the future of a profession in transition. 

https://www.ejta.eu/sites/ejta.eu/files/2019%2004%2012%20DROK%20Report%20RVQ.pdf

Tsomaia, T. and Keshelashvili, A. (2019). Georgia: On the way to quality journalism education in Accreditation and Assessment of Journalism Education in Europe: Quality Evaluation and Stakeholder Influence by Eva Nowak [ed.]. Nomos, Baden-Baden, pp. 51-64.

Makharadze, A. Keshelashvili, A., & Kharbedia, E. (2019). Georgian Journalism Educators in the Post-Truth Era, WJEC Paris.

Kharbedia, E., Keshelashvili, A., & Makharadze, A. (2019). Verification Practices in Georgian Online Media. IAMCR, July 7-11, Madrid. Conference proceedings.

Projects: 

• Deutsche Welle Akademie - “Independent media identify constructive strategies in the fight against propaganda and disinformation”

Research interests: 

Media consumption, media education, diffusion of innovations, media representation, technology influence on communications.