Nasya Bahfen
Nasya is a former journalist and producer whose research looks at sport, media and diversity. She is the postgraduate media and communications coordinator at Latrobe University where she is also a researcher with the Centre for Sport and Social Impact, and the higher degree by research coordinator for media and communications. Nasya teaches digital content making and has supervised to completion higher degree by research students in journalism and public relations / strategic communication. Her previous academic work includes how race is framed in Australian journalism through sport, interview choice among young journalism students covering diversity, the incorporation of social media in media education, and internet use by southeast Asian and Australian Muslim youth. A recent co-authored book (on the back of an Australian Research Council grant) explored building resilience among Jewish, Muslim, and other culturally diverse groups targeted in cyber racism, while another study compared social media use among Muslim students in Melbourne and New York city where she was a visiting scholar with NYU’s Center for Religion and Media.