Innovation Fellow at the Centre for Digital Citizens, Northmbria University
Dr Carolina Are (@ bloggeronpole) is a researcher, activist, pole dance instructor and blogger with a PhD in criminology. An Innovation Fellow at Northumbria University's Centre for Digital Citizens, Carolina is leading a project straddling online abuse and online censorship, which she experienced both as an academic and as a social media creator. Her work has been published in Feminist Media Studies, First Monday and Porn Studies and featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic and the BBC.