Joao Ozawa

Fall 2025 courses:

• COMM 550: International and Global Communication
• COMM 280: Community Journalism: Telling Stories for Community

Summer 2025 courses:

• COMM 280: Community Journalism: Telling Stories for Community
• COMM 104: Introduction to Journalism

Spring 2025 courses:

• COMM 280: Community Journalism: Telling Stories for Community
• COMM 104: Introduction to Journalism

Fall 2024 courses:

• COMM 280: Community Journalism: Telling Stories for Community

• Political Communication
• Community Journalism

Selected peer-reviewed publications 

• Ozawa, J., Woolley, S., & Lukito, J. (2024). Taking the Power Back: How Diaspora Community Organizations Are Fighting Disinformation Spread. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-146 

• Ozawa, J., Lukito, J., Lee, T., Varma, A., & Alves, R. (2023). Attacks Against Journalists in Brazil: Catalyzing Effects and Resilience During Jair Bolsonaro's Government. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612231182618 

• Ozawa, J., Woolley, S., Straubhaar, J., Riedl, M., Joseff, K., & Gursky, J. (2023). How Disinformation on WhatsApp Went from Campaign Weapon to Governmental Propaganda in Brazil. Social Media + Society, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231160632 

• Davis, S., Ozawa, J., Straubhaar, J., & Woolley, S. (2023). When Right-Wing Populism Becomes Distorted Public Health Communication: Tracing the Roots of Jair Bolsonaro’s Epidemiological Denialism. International Journal of Communication, 17(0), 19. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19729

• Lukito, J., Cui, Z., Hu, A., Lee, T., & Ozawa, J. (2022). States vs. Social Movements: Protests and State Repression in Asia. Media and Communication, 10(4), 5–17. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.5623

The University of Texas at Austin (2024)

• Ph.D. in Journalism and Media. Advisors: Samuel Woolley (chair), Maxwell McCombs (co-chair), Natalie Stroud, Josephine Lukito, Joseph Straubhaar.

University of Sao Paulo (2018)

• M.A. in Communication Sciences. Advisor: Leandro Leonardo Batista.