Damian Guzek is an associate professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Communication, the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His research is driven by questions related to digital media, religions, and politics. Between 2015-2019  he was conducting the Polish National Science Centre project ‘Media towards the idea of a secular state.’ In 2018 he was a visiting fellow in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. In 2017 he conducted a Visby postdoctoral research project at the Centre for Religion and Society, Uppsala University, Sweden. He collaborates within the project as a local research assistant.