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Education

2016 Southwestern University, B.A.
2021 The University of Texas at Austin, M.A.
2025 The University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

Communication and Law
Media and Society

Career Specialties

Zelly Martin specializes in media technologies’ impacts on democracy and feminist coalition-building. Particularly, her research examines disinformation, political propaganda, and democratic activism on emerging technologies through political communication and feminist frameworks.

Professional and Community Activities

Zelly Martin is a qualitative researcher with expertise in digital fieldwork, ethnography, interviewing, and textual analysis. Her peer-reviewed work has been published inÌýjournals such as Big Data & Society,ÌýInformation, Communication & Society,ÌýSocial Media + Society,ÌýPolitical Research Quarterly,ÌýJournalism Studies, First Monday,ÌýFeminist Media Studies, Mobilization, andÌýPerspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. Alongside co-editors Inga Trauthig, Alice Marwick, and Sam Woolley, she edited a special issue in theÌýJournal of Information Technology & PoliticsÌýon conspiracy theory research.

Her research has appeared inÌýTeen Vogue,ÌýSlate Future Tense,ÌýRappler,ÌýTech Policy Press,ÌýCentre for International Governance Innovation,ÌýGlobal Network on Extremist and Technology,ÌýOne to Know Magazine, the Austin Chronicle,Ìýand online at theÌýCenter for Media Engagement.ÌýShe has presented this work at conferences includingÌýInternational Communication Association,ÌýAssociation for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication,ÌýRightsCon,ÌýtheÌýAssociation of Internet ResearchersÌýconference, and others.

Honors and Awards

2024, Harrington Dissertation Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin
2023, Nettie Doscher More Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin
2023, Pic Wagner Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin
2022, David Warren Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin