University of Strathclyde, Department of Humanities, Lord Hope building (level 4), 141 St James Road, Glasgow G4 0LT, Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Vwbgn7oAAAAJ&hl=en
Education
PhD in Communication and Information Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, HI, USA (2016)
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, Middlesex University, London, UK (2018)
Selected Publications
Boyle, K., & Rathnayake, C. (2019). #HimToo and the networking of misogyny in the age of #MeToo. Feminist Media Studies (online version).
Rathnayake, C., & Suthers, D. D. (2018). ‘Enclaves of exposure’: A conceptual viewpoint to explore cross-ideology exposure on social network sites. Social Science Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2018.08.015
Rathnayake, C. & Suthers, D. (2018). Twitter Issue-response Hashtags as Affordances for Momentary Connectedness, Social Media+Society (online version).
Rathnayake, C. & Winter, J.S. (2018). Carrying forward the Uses and Grats 2.0 agenda: An affordance-driven measure of social media uses and gratifications, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 62(3): 371-389.
Rathnayake, C. & Buente, W. Sociotechnical traces in Sri Lanka’s 2015 presidential election hashtags: An exploratory study of #PresPollSL, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 37(1): 57-65.
Rathnayake, C. & Winter, J.S. (2017). Connecting Political Tolerance and Dogmatism with Social Media Uses and Gratifications: A Discriminant Analysis, Policy & Internet, 9(4): 444-466.
Awards
Research Incentive Grant (£7600), The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (August 2019)
Achievement Scholarship, Communication and Information Sciences PhD program, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
Achievement Scholarship, Communication and Information Sciences PhD program, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (Fall 2014, Spring 2015)
Asian Development Bank- Government of Japan Fellowship for Master’s degree study at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and participate in the education program as a graduate degree fellow at the East-West Center, HI, USA (2009)