Rate My Professor Dyah Pitaloka

Her research examines the social, cultural, political, and policy dynamics of digital technologies and their impacts on health, wellbeing, social inequalities, inclusion, exclusion, and justice in communication and media, with a focus on contexts in Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Australia. Notable publications include Rohman and Pitaloka's "The Continuum of contexts in social media contents for social movement during a crisis: Insights from Vietnamese disability movements during COVID-19" (Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2024), "Contact tracing apps, nationalism, and users with disability in the Global South" (Mobile Media & Communication, 2023), "Disconnected and disabled during the pandemic" (Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2023), and book chapters such as "Performing songs as healing the trauma of the 1965 anti-Communist killing in Indonesia" (Traumatic Pasts in Asia, 2021) and "Performing songs and staging theatre performances: Working through the trauma of the 1965/66 Indonesian mass killings" (Languages of Trauma, 2021). Dyah Pitaloka has received the Research Talent Accelerator Fellowship (2023-2025) to develop gamified educational tools on technology-facilitated sexual violence, Fulbright scholarship, Joint ICA/NCA Health Communication Dissertation Award finalist (2015), Ragan-Kramer-Wieder Qualitative Dissertation Award (2014), and multiple teaching awards including 100% ESSFS satisfaction at Monash Malaysia (2023). She has won grants from the Social Science Research Council, Ford Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and META AR/VR Policy Grant. Her scholarship contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals such as Good Health and Well-being, Gender Equality, Reduced Inequalities, and Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.