O’Meara, V.; Morales, E. & Hodson, J. (2026). Authentic Expertise: Influencers, Misinformation, and Authenticity in the Online Cancer Community. International Journal of Communication, 20, https://doi.org/10.65476/b9mpk350.

Morales, E., Divon, T., & Lundqvist, M. (2026). Context matters: Understanding the platformization of violence. New Media & Society, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261420823

Morales, E., Hodson, J., Chen, Y., Mendes, K., Veletsianos, G., & Gosse, C. (2025). “Stop Being so Fkn Soft”: Masculinity, Politics, and the Acceptance of Gender-Based Online Violence Myths Among Young Canadian Men. Social Media + Society, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251358754

Morales, E. (2025). Unsettling the meanings of everyday platformized violence: Dialogues about online harms to learn about peace. Digital Culture & Education, 16(1), 1–19. https://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-161

Morales, E., Hodson, J., O’Meara, V., Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2025). Online toxic speech as positioning acts: Hate as discursive mechanisms for othering and belonging. New Media & Society, 14614448251338493. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251338493

Chtena, N., Alperin, J. P., Morales, E., Fleerackers, A., Dorsch, I., Pinfield, S., & Simard, M.-A. (2025). Towards an inclusive Open Science: Examining EDI and public participation in policy documents across Europe and the Americas. Royal Society Open Science, 12(4), 240857. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240857

Morales, E., Hodson, J., Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2025). I 👍 your hate: Emojis as infrastructural platform violence on Telegram. Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2316–2325. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/109124

Hodson, J., Morales, E., & Owen, J. (2025). Using syndemic theory as a framework for understanding and addressing polarization and other antisocial behavior on social media. Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 6703–6712. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/109650

Morales, E., Hodson, J., Chen, Y., Gosse, C., Mendes, K., & Veletsianos, G. (2024). “You Did It to Yourself”: An Exploratory Study of Myths About Gender-Based Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse Among Men. Sex Roles. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-024-01514-w

Hodson, J., O’Meara, V., Owen, J., Veletsianos, G., & Morales, E. (2024). Why don’t faculty members report incidents of online abuse and what can be done about it? Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 15, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2024.100469

Morales, E. (2024). Social media and the mediation of everyday violence: A study of Colombian young adults’ experiences. New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241236756

Morales, E. (2023). Ecologies of violence on social media: An exploration of practices, contexts, and grammars of online harm. Social Media + Society, 9(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231196882   

Morales, E. & Reilly, K. (2023). The unhomed data subject: Negotiating datafication in Latin America. Information, Communication & Society, 0(0), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2250436 

Morales, E. (2023). ¿Qué investigamos cuando estudiamos la violencia en redes sociales en Colombia? Una revisión sistemática de la literatura [What do we research when studying social media violence in Colombia? A systematic review of the literature]. Investigación y Desarrollo, 32(2), 228-249. https://doi.org/10.14482/INDES.31.02.814.456

Reilly, K. & Morales, E. (2023). Citizen data audits in the contemporary sensorium. International Journal of Communication.17, 3582–3599. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18832

Horst, R., James, K., Morales, E., & Takeda, Y. (2023). The intermingled meanings of PhoneMe: Exploring transmodal, place‐based poetry in an online social network. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 66(4), 249-256.

Morales, E. (2022). Review of the Methodological Landscape of Literacy and Social Media Research. First Monday, 27(8). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v27i8.11696

Reilly, K., Flores, M., & Morales, E. (2022). Aprendiendo sobre alfabetización de datos personales: Criterios para evaluar intervenciones en América Latina [Learning about personal data literacy: Criteria for evaluating interventions in Latin America]. Observatorio (OBS*), 16. https://doi.org/10.15847/obsOBS16SpecialIssue20222187

Dawson D., Morales E., McKiernan E.C., Schimanski L.A., Niles M.T., Alperin J.P. (2022) The role of collegiality in academic review, promotion, and tenure. PLoS ONE 17(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265506

Morales, E.; Kalir, J.H.; Fleerackers, A., & Alperin, J. P. (2022). Using social annotation to construct knowledge with others: A case study across undergraduate courses. F1000 Research. 11. https://doi.org/10.12688%2Ff1000research.109525.1

James, K.; Horst, R.; Takeda, Y. & Morales, E. (2021) The Patch: An artful syn(aes)thetic mapping of linguistic data through collaborative digital/analogue literacy processes. McGill Journal of Education, 55(3), 641–665. https://doi.org/10.7202/1083426ar 

Morales, E., James, K., Horst, R., Takeda, Y., & Yung, E., (2021) The sound of our words: Singling, a textual sonification software. Proceedings at the 26th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2021). Available here.

Morales, E., Mckiernan, E., Niles, M. T., Schimanski, L., & Pablo, J. (2021). How faculty define quality, prestige, and impact in research. PLoS ONE, 16(10). https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.14.439880

James, K., Morales, E., Horst, R., & Yung, E. (2021). Singling: Text Sonification and the Literacoustics of Language-to-MIDI Transformations. In Andrew Klobucar (Ed.), The Community and the Algorithm: A Digital Interactive Poetics. Vernon Press.

Morales, E. & Gebre, E. (2021). Teachers’ understanding and implementation of peace education in Colombia: The case of Cátedra de la Paz. Journal of Peace Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400201.2021.1937085

Morales, E. (2021). Peace education and Colombia’s efforts against violence: A literature review of Cátedra de la Paz. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Educativos, 51(2), 13–42. https://doi.org/10.48102/rlee.2021.51.2.384

Kalir, J. H., Morales, E., Fleerackers, A., & Alperin, J. P. (2020). “When I saw my peers annotating”: Student perceptions of social annotation for learning in multiple courses. Information and Learning Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-12-2019-0128

Gebre, E., & Morales, E. (2020). How “accessible” is open data? users’ comments in open datasets comments. Information and Learning Sciences, 121(1/2), pp. 19-36. https://doi-org/10.1108/ILS-08-2019-0086

Tamayo Gómez, C., Freeman, M. & Morales, E. (Eds.). (2018) Arqueología transmedia en América Latina: mestizajes, identidades y convergencias [Transmedia archeology in Latin America: Mestizations, identities and convergences]. Medellín: EAFIT University

Reilly, K., Morales, E., & Morales Gonzales, M. J. (2026). Communing Data Literacy. McGill-Queen University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/Books/C/Communing-Data-Literacy3

Morales, E. (2026). A wholesome insult, an uplifting threat: Making sense of toxicity amid ‘good vibes’ digital cultures. Social Media & Society, Glasgow.

Morales, E. & Magalhães, J. (2025). Bottom-up moderation as ideological protest: Making sense of Redditors’ ban of X links after Musk’s “Nazi salute”.  PlatGovNet2025, online.

Morales, E., Hodson, J., & O’Meara, V. (2025) Think better, you dumbass: Online hateful speech as epistemic violence. AoIR 2025, Niteroi.

Morales, E. (2025) “Screw you, this is a cheerful place”: Platformized violence among positive-vibe Reddit communities. AoIR 2025, Niteroi.

Morales, E. & Lupinacci, L. (2025) “Rule #1: Don;t be a d!ck”: Vibe-check as governance of platformized violence. AoIR 2025 Flashpoint Symposium, Bremen.

Hooman, N.; Hodson, J.; Morales, E.; Davoudi, N.; Pande, N. & Fengjun, Y. (2025) Unpacking the Cultural Contexts of Digital Violence: Insights from Canada, Colombia, and Iran. Canadian Communication Association 2025, Toronto.

Morales, E., Hodson, J., Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2025). I 👍 your hate: Emojis as infrastructural platform violence on Telegram. Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2316–2325. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/109124

Hodson, J., Morales, E., & Owen, J. (2025). Using syndemic theory as a framework for understanding and addressing polarization and other antisocial behavior on social media. Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 6703–6712. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/109650

Morales, E.; Hodson, J.; Gruzd, A.; Mai, P. (2024). The sociability of online antisocial behaviour: A study of how toxic interactions manifest on a Colombian Telegram group [Conference presentation]. Social Media and Society conference, London, England.

Chen, Y.; Morales, E.; Gosse, C.; Mendes, K. & Veletsianos, G. (2024). How men perceive gender-based technology-facilitated violence and abuse: Myths and false beliefs [Conference presentation]. Social Media and Society conference, London, England. [Best paper award]

O’Meara, V.; Hodson, J.; Gruzd, A.; Morales, E. (2024). Deplatforming Children’s Health Defense: Fighting health misinformation or building a reactionary health populism movement? [Conference presentation]. Social Media and Society conference, London, England.

Morales, E.; Chen, Y.; Gosse, C.; Hodson, J.; Mendes, K. & Veletsianos, G. (2024) When rape myths go on the internet: Men’s perceptions of gender-based technology-facilitated violence and abuse [Poster presentation]. International Communication Association conference, Gold Coast, Australia.

Chen, Y.; Hodson, J.; Gosse, C.; Mendes, K.; Morales, E. & Veletsianos, G. (2024). Online bystander intervention: Obstacles and opportunities [Conference presentation] International Communication Association conference, Gold Coast, Australia. 

Morales, E. & Reilly, K. (2023) What data do to us, what we do with data: Experiences from Latin America [Conference presentation] 4S Conference, Honolulu, USA.

Horst, R. & Morales, E. (2023) The speculative present of AI: Implications, possibilities, and where we are(n’t) going from here [Panel] 4S Conference, Honolulu, USA.

Morales, E.; Divon, T.; Lundqvist, M. & Halabi, N. (2023) Exploring the contextual complexities of violence on digital platforms: Intersections, impacts, and solutions [Panel]. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, Philadelphia, USA.  

Morales, E. (2023). Peace education in the platformed society: Lessons from Colombia [Conference presentation]. Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA), Toronto, Canada.

Morales, E. (2023). Catalysts, weapons, validators, or propagators: Colombian young adults mediated experiences of social media violence [Conference presentation]. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Vancouver, Canada.

Morales, E. (2023). From online harms to offline peace: Learning from and about violence on social media in Colombia [Conference presentation]. Media Education Summit, Vancouver, Canada.

Morales, E. (2022). “It is everywhere”: An exploration of the ecologies of violence on Colombian social media platforms [Conference presentation]. 4S/ESOCITE conference, Cholula, Mexico.

Horst, R. & Morales, E. (2022) Future imagining and the cultivation of possibility [Panel]. 4S/ESOCITE conference, Cholula, Mexico.

Morales, E. & Reilly, K. (2022). Subordinated by the algorithm. Exploring data colonialism among Latin American citizens [Conference presentation]. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, Dublin, Ireland.

Morales, E., (2022). What do we mean when we talk about social media violence? Exploring everyday violence on digital networks [Conference presentation].Social Media & Society conference, online.

Morales, E., (2022). Understanding the digital landscape with the other: A call for an epistemological shiver [Conference presentation]. Digital Humanities Unbound conference, online.  

Morales, E., & Horst, R. (2022). Rejecting the ready-made future: Reimagining technologies from and for the classroom [Conference presentation]. Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA) conference, online.

Morales, E., James, K., Horst, R., Takeda, Y., & Yung, E., (2021) The sound of our words: Singling, a textual sonification software [Conference presentation]. 26th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), online.

James, K.; Morales, E.; Takeda, Y.M Horst, R. & Yung, E. (2021) Listen and Learn: Future methods, present possibilities and past dilemmas for sounding texts in digital arts-based educational research [Conference presentation]. CSSE-Congress, online.  

Horst, R.; James, K.; Morales, E.; Takeda, & Yung, E. (2021) Sounding the futures imaginary: a collaborative intra-modal storying methodology [Conference presentation]. Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) conference, 2021.  

Morales, E. (2021) Review of the methodological landscape of literacy and social media research [Conference presentation].  CSSE-Congress Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada preconference, online.

Morales, E. (2021) Data literacy and peace education: Teachers’ understanding of data in Colombia’s Cátedra de la Paz [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference, online.

Reilly, K.; Albornoz, D.; Morales, E.; Marachimo, M & Morales, M.J. (2020) ¡Son mis datos! Herramientas para retomar el control de nuestros datos personales [Conference presentation]. RightsCon, online.

Horst, R. & Morales, E. (2020). EnTwining the data: A digital arts-based representation of research [Conference presentation]. Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) conference, online. 

Morales, E. & Gebre, E. (2020). Implementing peace education in Colombia: Teachers’ understanding and perceived challenges of Cátedra de la Paz [Conference presentation, cancelled due to COVID-19]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference, San Francisco, United States of America.

Gebre, E. & Morales, E. (2019). How accessible is open data? Context and support for using open data in schools [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference, Toronto, Canada.

Morales, E. (2019) Data literacy in a peace education course, an opportunity to address disinformation in Colombia [Poster presentation]. Innovations in Research, Vancouver, Canada.

Alperin, J., La, M & Morales, E. (2019) Is making knowledge public a part of a professor’s job? [Presentation]. Innovations in Research, Vancouver, Canada.

Morales, E. & Gebre, E. (2018). Open data as educational resource: Reconsidering data literacy initiatives in secondary schools [Conference presentation]. Learning Together conference, Surrey, Canada.

Morales, E. & Leal, D. (2017) Student leaders: a strategy for the management of ICT in educational institutions [Conference presentation]. Virtual Educa conference, Bogota, Colombia.

Language and Literacy Education Ph.D. – UBC (09/2019 – 02/2024)

• Dissertation project: Living with violence on social media: An exploration of Colombian’s experiences around harm on digital platforms
• Supervisors: Dr. Leah Macfadyen
• Committee: Dr. Katherine Reilly, Dr. Teresa Dobson, and Dr. Mark Turin

Educational Tech & Learning Design MA – SFU (09/2017 – 09/2019)

• Thesis: Teachers’ understanding of peace and citizenship education and ways of integrating data literacy in Colombia’s Cátedra de la Paz
• Supervisor: Dr. Engida Gebre

Transmedia Communication MA – EAFIT University (07/2015 – 12/2016)

• Thesis: Transmedia Archeology in Latin America: Mestizaje, Identities and Convergences
• Supervisor: Dr. Camilo Tamayo

Social Communication bachelor’s degree – EAFIT University (01/2008 – 12/2012)

University of Groningen
– Imagining the Digital (02/2025-04/2025) in the BA in Media Studies
– Thinkers and theories: Violence and platforms (02/2025-04/2025) in the BA in Media Studies
– Capturing Media Use (11/2024-01/2025) in the Datafication & Digital Literacy, Social Media & Society, or Media Creation & Innovation MA programmes.
– Analyzing Media Production and Use (11/2024-01/2025) in the BA in Media Studies

Royal Roads University
– Social Science Theory and the Globalized World (01/2024-03/2024) in the Doctorate of Social Sciences.
– Social media and digital data (8/2023-10/2023) n the Master of Arts in Intercultural and International Communication.

University of British Columbia
– Literacy practices and assessment (6/2023) in the Teacher Education program.
– Literacy practices and assessment (6/2022) in the Teacher Education program.

EAFIT University
– Texts and Hypertext I (1/2017 – 6/2017) in the Communication BA program

Assistant Professor – University of Groningen (10/2024-Ongoing): Assistant Professor in Media and Digital Cultures in the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies.

Postdoctoral fellow – Royal Roads University (7/2023-9/2024): Working with Dr. Jaigris Hodson on projects concerning online harassment on digital platforms

Research Assistant  – Simon Fraser University (1/2020– 8/2023): Working in collaboration with Dr. Katherine Reilly and civic society organizations in the promotion of data literacy skills and participatory citizen data audits in Latin America.

Graduate Academic Assistant – University of British Columbia (8/2019– 7/2022): Working at the Digital Literacy Centre in projects related to poetic inquiry, sonification of language and makerspaces.

Qualitative Research Assistant – Simon Fraser University (1/2019– 4/2021): Working in collaboration with Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin and the ScholCommLab team in research projects related to online annotation, digital literacies and scholarly communication.

N-Vivo Graduate Peer – Simon Fraser University (8/2018– 4/2019): Supporting and promoting the use of the qualitative research software NVivo among graduate students, staff and faculty.

Research Assistant – Simon Fraser University (1/2018– 12/2018): Working as a research assistant for Dr. Engida Gebre on topics related to data literacy, open data and contextualization of educational resources.

Research Assistant – EAFIT University (1/2014– 6/2017): Working in the systematization and implementation of educational technology with students from over 200 public schools in Colombia.

Morales, E. (2026). Grassroots Grant by Jantina Tammes School at the University of Groningen. Project: “Vernaculars of AI-mediated violence“. Total award: €2000.

Gehrke, M. & Morales, E. (2026). Project collaboration with Gemeente Groningen. Project: “Tales of Masculinities in Groningen.” Total award: €5000

Castro Mariño, D., Morales, E., Copeland, S., Spellerberg, J. & Mehta, S.(2026) Open Education Incubator Award by the University of Groningen. Total grant: €11500

Morales, E. (2025) Start-up grant by the University of Groningen. Project “Digital Encounters with Violence: Understanding Mediation of Online Harms Among Migrant Communities in Groningen” Total award: €3000

Morales, E., Chen, Y., Hodson, J., Gosse, C., Mendes, K. & Veletsianos, G. (2024). Best paper award by Social Media & Society conference. Total award: C$1000

Hodson, J. & Morales, E. (2024). Knowledge Synthesis Grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Project: “Unflattening the cultures of violence on digital platforms: A systematic review of the literature on online harms in Canada, Colombia and Iran.”Total grant: C$3000

Morales, E. (2023) Best paper – Graduate award by the Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA). Total award: C$500

Morales, E. (2022) Most Engaging Presentation Award by the Social Media + Society conference.

Morales, E. (2019-2022) Public Scholar Initiative by the University of British Columbia. Total award: C$11,000.

Morales, E. (2019-2023) Faculty of Education Graduate Award by the University of British Columbia. Total award: C$20,000 per year.

Morales, E. (2019) Graduate Fellowship by Simon Fraser University. Total award: C$3,250

[Workshop] Morales, E.; Hodson, J. & O’Meara, V. (2025) When the trolls find our research: A workshop in online harassment of scholars and how to move forward, in 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

[Article] Hodson, H.; Morales, E.; Mendes, K. & Chen, Y. (2024) Addressing online gender violence requires both culture and policy change, in The Conversation Canada. https://tinyurl.com/5n82srw4

[Report] Hodson, H.; Morales, E.; Lee, Y. & Pande, N. (2024) Responding to Human Rights Misinformation in British Columbia: A Comprehensive Review for the British Columbia Office of the Human Rights Commissioner.

[Interview] CHEK News (2024). ‘A lot of hurtful messaging’: Central Saanich is deactivating its X accounts, in ChekNews.ca.https://tinyurl.com/bde6fj95

[Invited writing piece] Morales, E. (2023). Vivir con violencia en redes sociales (living with violence on social media)., in Circuito Digital. https://www.circuito.digital/blog/vivir-con-violencia-en-redes-sociales

[Report] Reilly, K., Febres-Cordero B., Morales E., Albornoz D., Morachimo M. & Flores M. (2020) Son Mis Datos: Guia Metodologica. Hiperderecho. Available at https://hiperderecho.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SonMisDatos.pdf

[Blog post] Fleekers, A.; Alperin, J.P.; Morales, E. & Kalir, R. (2019) Comment, Reply, Repeat: Engaging Students with Social Annotation. Retrieved from https://web.hypothes.is/blog/comment-reply-repeat-engaging-students-with-social-annotation/.

[Presentation] James, K.; Horst, R.; Takeda, Y. & Morales, E. (2019) The Patch: Data Visualization in Digital Arts-Based Educational Research. Presentation at the IEEE VIS meets Vancouver. Microsoft, Vancouver.