Christina Dinar

Christina is interested in digital publics shaped by communities that develop their own rules for dealing with hate speech and disinformation (“fake news”). For her, this creates a digital space that is more diverse, democratic, and oriented towards the common good. Coming from a background in pedagogy, she co-developed "digital streetwork," which adapts traditional outreach support approaches to the digital environment. From 2015 to 2019, she developed and led digital anti-discrimination projects for the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and has frequently spoken and written as an expert on solutions to hate speech.

Christina Dinar is a research associate at the Catholic University of Applied Social Sciences Berlin, where she is pursuing her PhD on the topic: "Our Street is the Web" – Outreach Social Work on Social Media. Functional Mechanisms of Digital Streetwork and its Challenges for Internet Platform Governance (supervised by Prof. Dr. Bozana Meinhardt-Injac, KHSB, and Prof. Dr. Hans Liudger Dienel, TU Berlin).

From 2019 to 2023, she was a Junior Researcher in Platform Governance at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institute in Hamburg, where she conducted research on community participation formats.

From 2013 to 2015, she worked in the community sector at Wikimedia Germany, focusing on increasing the number of new Wikipedia contributors. She currently serves on its board, where she strategically advocates for a greater role for Wikipedia, oriented towards the public good, in the shaping of digital publics. From 2018 to 2020, she was Deputy Director at the Center for Internet and Human Rights (CIHR), where her research focused on freedom of expression online, with an emphasis on science, policy, and practical transfer.

Christina studied social work as well as theology, cultural studies, and gender studies in Berlin and Jerusalem, and she lives in Berlin.