Robert Topinka

Robert Topinka is a Senior Lecturer in Transnational Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. His research focuses on reactionary digital politics, race, and urban media cultures. He is the author of Racing the Street: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology in Metropolitan London, 1840–1900 (University of California Press, 2020). Dr. Topinka leads the British Academy-funded project “Misinformation in Everyday Life” and co-hosts the Reactionary Digital Politics podcast. His work has been featured in New Media & Society, Theory & Event, and Big Data & Society.