Ofra Klein

Dr. Ofra Klein is Assistant Professor in Mediatisation and Digitalisation at Erasmus University Rotterdam's Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. Her research analyzes online political mobilization, with emphasis on far-right movements across social media platforms.

Her investigations focus on:

• Anti-immigrant rhetoric in populist discourse
• Visual political communication during crises
• Platform architectures enabling extremist mobilization
• Cross-national comparisons of online political conflict
• Social media's role in democratic backsliding

Recent publications examine Instagram during COVID-19, Capitol riot mobilization, and UKIP's post-Brexit transformation through mixed-method analyses of digital content.