Madalina Botan is an Associate Professor at SNSPA Bucharest and senior researcher at the Center for Research in Communication. Her work focuses on media studies, with current research on online disinformation and EU regulations such as the Code of Practice on Disinformation and the Digital Services Act.

She is a member of the EDMO-affiliated Bulgarian-Romanian Observatory on Disinformation, contributes to the OPINION COST Action (CA21129), and serves on the Management Committee of DepolarizingEU (CA22165), a network addressing polarization in Europe.

Prof. Botan has published extensively on media effects and political communication. Her latest co-authored book examines media diets and their influence on civic and political engagement.

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