Exploring Data Justice: Conceptions, Applications and Directions

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Notes on contributors

Lina Dencik is Reader at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University and is Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab. She has published widely on digital media, resistance and the politics of data and is currently Principal Investigator of the DATAJUSTICE project funded by an ERC Starting Grant. Her publications include Media and Global Civil Society (Palgrave, 2012), Social Media and Protest (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015), and Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society (Polity, 2018). [[email protected]].

Arne Hintz is Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, co-Director of its Data Justice Lab and Director of its MA Digital Media and Society. His research focuses on the practices and conditions of digital citizenship, combining work on media activism, digital policy, surveillance and datafication.His publications include, among others, Beyond WikiLeaks (Palgrave, 2013) and Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society (Polity, 2018). [[email protected]].

Joanna Redden is a Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University and is Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab. She is co-editor of Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data (Bloomsbury, 2015) and author of The Mediation of Poverty (Lexington, 2014). She has published on the democratic implications of data governance and data harms. [email: [email protected]].

Emiliano Treré is a Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. He is the author of Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms (Routledge, 2019) and has published widely on media ecologies, protest movements, and algorithmic resistance. He is a member of the Data Justice Lab and the co-founder of the Big Data from the South Initiative. Treré is the current vice-chair of the ‘Communication and Democracy’ Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). [email: [email protected]].

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Funding

This project is partly funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (grant number 759903).