Rok Smrdelj (1992) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His research focuses on the sociology of media and communication, with a particular emphasis on the study of communication relations in the hybrid media sphere. In his PhD, he examined the construction of the migrant “crisis” on Twitter in Slovenia using a combination of critical discourse studies and digital quantitative methods. He also explores structural changes in the public sphere, particularly in light of recent neoconservative mobilizations opposing equality policies in Europe and beyond. With Roman Kuhar, he co-edited the volume Anti-Gender Mobilizations in Europe and the Feminist Response: Productive Resistance (Palgrave, 2025). He also serves as the secretary of the Slovenian Sociological Association and as the book review editor for the journal Social Science Forum. He received an award from the Slovene Sociological Association for promising young sociologists and an award from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana for the best doctoral dissertation in social sciences. In 2017–2022, he was a scholarship holder of the Eng. Milan Lenarčič University Foundation.