Diana Bossio

Diana Bossio is Associate Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University.

Dr Bossio's research focusses on journalism and social media with current research addressing journalism practice on image-base social media platforms, wellbeing in journalism and regulation of social media platforms around news content.

Dr Bossio also researches issues of older people's digital inclusion and participation, with recent work focussing on social media reluctance, elder abuse and intergenerational social connection in communities. 

Dr Bossio is lead author of Social Media and the politics of reportage: The Arab Spring (with Saba Bebawi, 2014), Journalism and Social Media: Practitioners, Organisations and Institutions (2017) and The Paradox of Connection: How digital media is transforming journalistic labor (with Valerie Belair-Gagnon, Avery Holton and Logan Molyneux, 2024). She has also led funded projects working directly with industry and community, including Telstra, VicHealth, Department of Famailies, Fairness and Housing, the Office of the Commissioner for Senior Victorians, Victorian Building Authority, Australian Unity,  Eastern Community Legal Centre, and councils including, Boroondara, Monash, Maroondah, Knox, Manningham and Whitehorse.  

Dr Bossio is interested in supervising PhD projects that align directly with her current research interests.