Biography
Ofra Klein is an Assistant Professor in Mediatisation and Digitalisation within the Erasmus School of History, Culture, and Communication (ESHCC) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her primary research focuses on the radical right and online political mobilization. Holding a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, she has previously held academic positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore, the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and VU University Amsterdam. Her work has appeared in international journals such as European Societies, Information, Communication & Society, and the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. She participates, through her research and teaching, in the SSH-Breed programme The Digital Society.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Assistant professor | Department of Media and Communication
- klein@eshcc.eur.nl
- Room
- M8-07
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
More information
Work
- Ofra Klein, Hans-Joerg Trenz & Nadine Hesse (2024) - Political conflict on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: Challenges of a cross-country comparison of visual content - [link]
- Jasper Muis, Ofra Klein & G Dijkstra (2021) - Challenges and opportunities of social media research: using Twitter and Facebook to investigate far right discourses
- Ofra Klein (2021) - Monitoring media pluralism in the digital era: application of the Media Pluralism Monitor in the European Union, Albania, Montenegro, The Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia & Turkey in the year 2020: country report: The Netherlands
- Ofra Klein & Andrea Pirro (2020) - Reverting trajectories? UKIP’s organisational and discursive change after the Brexit referendum - doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1792532
- Ofra Klein (2020) - Misleading memes: The effects of deceptive visuals of the British National Party - doi: 10.1285/i20356609v13i1p154
- Ofra Klein & Prashanth Bhat (2020) - Covert hate speech: white nationalists and dog whistle communication on Twitter
- Ofra Klein & Jasper Muis (2019) - Online discontent: comparing Western European far-right groups on Facebook
- Ofra Klein, Bert Klandermans, Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Corina Duijndam, Ali Honari, Jasper Muis, Marieke Slootman, Saskia Welschen & Guy Mahieu (2016) - Bedreigde identiteiten: De wisselwerking tussen anti-islambewegingen en de radicale islam
- Ofra Klein (8 april 2024) - Hondenfluitjes: de giftige schaduwtaal van het internet
- Ofra Klein (1 december 2023) - Radicaal-rechts lijkt op sociale media een gezellig clubje
- Ofra Klein (20 september 2023) - ”Aina vaan ne suomalaiset” – näin Hollannin laitaoikeisto puhuu maahanmuuttajien tekemistä rikoksista ["Always only the Finns" - this is how the Dutch far-right talks about crimes committed by immigrants]
- Ofra Klein (20 september 2023) - Yle Uutiset
- Ofra Klein (5 januari 2022) - Kunnen we nog op een normale manier verschillend denken?
- Ofra Klein (16 december 2019) - „Die Zensur führt zu mehr Wut“
- Ofra Klein (16 december 2019) - Warum rechter Populismus in Luxemburg (noch) nicht wirkt
New Media, Culture and Entertainment
- Level
- BA-2
- Year Level
- BA-2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM2553
Com. Technologies and their Impacts
- Level
- BA-1
- Year Level
- BA-1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM1007
Workshop 1: Academic Skills
- Year Level
- BA-1, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM1003
Designing Politics in the Digital Era
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-3
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM2098
Communication as a Social Force
- Year Level
- BA-1, Pre-master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM1009
Premaster Research Project (proposal)
- Year Level
- Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM0060
Premaster Research Project (paper)
- Year Level
- Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM0065
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM5000
Master Class
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM4500
Digital Citizens and Communities
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM4605
