Katrin Tiidenberg


Katrin Tiidenberg is an Estonian sociologist and internet researcher who is Professor of Participatory Culture at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Tallinn University. Her research examines how people create meaning and relationships through everyday social media practices, including networked visuality and platformed intimacy.
Tiidenberg is the author of several books for academic and general audiences, including Selfies: Why We Love Them, Sex and Social Media, and Tumblr.

Education and career

Tiidenberg received her PhD in sociology from Tallinn University in 2015; her dissertation analysed selfie practices and their role in identity and significant relationships.
She has also held international research appointments and was a Fellow of the Durham University Institute of Advanced Study in 2022/23.

Public engagement

Tiidenberg has written and spoken publicly about social media, digital culture, and science communication, including in Estonian media and cultural outlets.

Awards and honours

  • 2022 – Awarded a prize in the Estonian national science popularisation awards.
  • 2022 – Sirp laureate.

    Selected works

Books

  • Tiidenberg, Katrin. Ihu ja hingega internetis: kuidas mõista sotsiaalmeediat? Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2017.
  • Tiidenberg, Katrin. Selfies: Why We Love Them. Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2018.
  • Tiidenberg, Katrin; van der Nagel, Emily. Sex and Social Media. Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2020.
  • Tiidenberg, Katrin; Hendry, Natalie Ann; Abidin, Crystal. Tumblr. Cambridge: Polity, 2021.

    Edited volumes

  • Markham, Annette N.; Tiidenberg, Katrin. Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020.

    Reception

  • Selfies: Why We Love Them reviewed in European Journal of Media Studies.
  • Selfies: Why We Love Them and Ihu ja hingega internetis reviewed in Baltic Screen Media Review.
  • Tumblr reviewed in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.