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Our team

Stefania Milan

Stefania Milan is Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and the Principal Investigator of the DATACTIVE project. Read more here & here. Follow Stefania on Twitter: @annliffey

Lonneke van der Velden

Lonneke van der Velden is a lecturer at the department of media studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research deals with conceptualisations of internet surveillance and internet activism. She is also on the Board of Directors of Bits of Freedom. More here:

keywords: internet surveillance, activism, open source intelligence, Science & Technology Studies

 

Davide Beraldo

Davide Beraldo is postdoc researcher at DATACTIVE. His PhD thesis explores the epistemological challenges for social movement studies in the digital age. He graduated in Social Sciences and Political Science at the University of Milan and has a background in computer programming.
keywords: social movements, digital sociology, network analysis, complexity theory

Frederike Kaltheuner

Frederike Kaltheuner is a PhD researcher with the DATACTIVE project at the University of Amsterdam. She holds an MSc from the University of Oxford, is a 2016 Transatlantic Digital Fellow and also works as a technology reporter. Twitter @fre8de8rike More here.

keywords: knowledge, algorithms, predictive analytics, ethics

Becky Kazansky

Becky Kazansky is a PhD researcher with the DATACTIVE project at the University of Amsterdam. She has a masters degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU, and has spent the last 8 years supporting civil society efforts to strengthen human rights, privacy and digital security. She was previously Lead Programme Researcher and a digital security trainer with Tactical Technology Collective. Twitter: @pondswimmer. Read more here.

Mahsa Alimardani

Mahsa has been doing research and work on Internet controls, policies and digital security in Iran for the past 4 years. She is currently finishing her Research Masters degree in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam while doing research with DATACTIVE. She is also the Iran editor for Global Voices. Follow her @maasalan. More here. 

keywords: censorship, digital security, MENA social movements, information controls

Kersti Ruth Wissenbach

Kersti is a senior consultant and researcher in the field of transparency & accountability, open development and ICT4D. Her research focuses on Inclusion and democracy in times of ICT and data ‘hypes’.  Kersti is also a lecturer in the Development Communication Master at Malmo University, Sweden. Read more here. keywords: civic technology, transnational activism, collective action, power

Niels ten Oever

Niels ten Oever has designed and implemented freedom of expression projects in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and Northern Africa, Brazil and Afghanistan and worked on global internet governance issues in ICANN and the IETF. Read more here. Follow Niels on Twitter: @conflictmedia

keywords: digital civil-society, tactics, Internet imaginaries

Jeroen de Vos

With a background in cultural anthropology, a research master in media studies and a specialisation in urban studies, Jeroen de Vos is quite comfortable moving between and through disciplines. Moreover, he is active in the Amsterdam entrepreneurial startup scene as a research consultant and is ready to dive into the field of social and data privacy by employing mixed-methodologies.

Research Associates

Jonathan Gray

Jonathan’s research focuses on the politics of open data and public information. In addition to his role on the project, he is Director of Policy and Research at Open Knowledge. More about him can be found at jonathangray.org and he is on Twitter at @jwyg.

keywords: open data, public data, public information, data infrastructures, STS

Hisham Almiraat

Hisham Almiraat is the founder of the Digital Rights Association, Morocco and former Advocacy Director at Global Voices. He has written extensively about human rights issues in the MENA region. His work covers issues of freedom of expression and privacy rights. Twitter @almiraat keywords: mass surveillance, interception, psychological impacts, privacy

Corinne Cath

Corinne J.N. Cath recently graduated from the Oxford Internet Institute as an MSc student. She has a BA in anthropology and an MA in International relations from the University of Utrecht. Her research focuses on the (im)possibility of instantiating human rights principles in Internet standards and protocols. Read more here. 

Advisory Board

Sandra Braman

Texas A&M University

 

Sasha Costanza-Chock

MIT

Chris Csikszentmihályi

Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute

Ronald Deibert

University of Toronto

Donatella della Porta

Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

Laura deNardis

American University, Washington

Paul Dourish

University of California, Irvine

Seda Gürses

Princeton University

Mark Graham

Oxford Internet Institute

Arne Hintz

Cardiff University

Noortje Marres

Warwick University

Francesca Musiani

CNRS, France

Evelyn Ruppert

Goldsmiths, University of London

Remedios Zafra

Universidad de Sevilla

Hisham al-Miraat

cyberactivist, Morocco

 

Renata Avila

World Wide Web Foundation

 

Jordi Blanchar

social & creative activist, UK

Nighat Dad

Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan

Gus Hosein

Privacy International

Nishant Shah

Leuphana University

Ethics Board

Jaromil, aka Denis Rojo

Dyne.org, the Netherlands

Masashi Nishihata

Citizen Lab, Canada

Tatiana Tropina

Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany

Charlotte Ryan

University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Media/Movement Research Action Project

Julia Hoffmann

Hivos, the Netherlands

Melanie Rieback

Radically Open Security, the Netherlands

Annalisa Pelizza

University of Twente, the Netherlands

University of Amsterdam
Department of Media Studies (2.13b)
Turfdraagsterpad 9
1012 XT Amsterdam

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