Anders Albrechtslund holds a BA & MA in philosophy (University of Odense, Denmark, 2003) and a PhD in Information Studies (Aalborg University, Denmark, 2008). He has published work on surveillance, new technologies, social media, and ethics. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Aarhus University’s Department of Information and Media Studies. His research interests include surveillance technologies in urban spaces and ways to conceptualize surveillance. He is a member of the Management Committee of the EU COST Action “Living in Surveillance Societies” (2009–2013). Website: http://www.albrechtslund.net/
Contact: alb@hum.au.dk
Thomas Allmer has studied media and communication at the University of Salzburg and the Victoria University of Melbourne. Allmer is a member of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group (UTI) and participates in the working group Living in the Surveillance Age of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action Living in Surveillance Societies. He currently is a PhD student at the University of Salzburg and a research associate in the project “Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). His research interests are critical theory, critical media and communication studies, information society research, and surveillance studies. Website: http://www.uti.at/thomasallmer
Contact: thomas.allmer@uti.at1
Mark Andrejevic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched (2004) and iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era (2007), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on surveillance, new media, and popular culture. Mark studies television and new media from the perspective of critical theory and cultural studies. His recent work focuses on surveillance and monitoring in the digital economy. Topics include interactive media, surveillance, digital art, and reality TV. Website: http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/people/faculty/andrejevic/andrejevic.shtml
Contact: mark-andrejevic@uiowa.edu
David Arditi is a PhD student in the Cultural Studies program at George Mason University where he also teaches classes on globalization and culture. He received his MA in Political Science from Virginia Tech in 2007. His Master’s thesis was published as a book entitled Criminalizing Independent Music: The Recording Industry Association of America’s Advancement of Dominant Ideology. Arditi is particularly interested in researching the intersections of music, technology, and politics and is serving as the Graduate Student Representative to the Board of Visitors at George Mason University.
Contact: darditi@gmu.edu
Roberto Armengol is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Virginia. His dissertation research focuses on everyday life and exchange in Cuba after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He also is a member of an interdisciplinary work group examining IT-based surveillance and transparency systems as accountability systems.
Contact: armengol@virginia.edu
Kees Boersma is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Science of the VU University Amsterdam. His research interests are science and technology studies, the organization of surveillance and security, and organizational power. He has published widely on R&D history, organizational learning, enterprise-wide systems, and organizational safety culture. He teaches the courses Organizational Politics, Organizational and Management Theory, and Technology and Culture. He is a management committee member and working group leader in the EU COST Action Living in Surveillance Societies.
Website: http://keesboersma.com
Contact: f.k.boersma@vu.nl
Miyase Christensen is a Professor of Media and Communication studies at Karlstad University. She is the author and co-editor of a number of international articles and books, including Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context (2008); Connecting Europe: Politics of Information Society in the EU and Turkey (2009); Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space (2011, with André Jansson and Christian Christensen); and Understanding Media and Culture in Turkey: Structures, Spaces, Voices (forthcoming, with Christian Christensen). Her current research focuses on social theory and globalization/transnationalization processes and social surveillance and the media. Current research includes a funded project entitled Secure Spaces: Media, Consumption and Social Surveillance (with André Jansson) and a second project on the environment and the media funded by FORMAS.
Contact: miyase.christensen@kau.se
Christian Fuchs is Chair Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University’s Department of Informatics and Media. He is also a board member of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group, Austria, and editor of tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (http://www.triple-c.at). He studied computer science at the Vienna University of Technology from 1994 to 2000 and completed his PhD there in 2002. From 2000 to 2006, he was a lecturer for Information Society Studies at the Institute of Design and Technology Assessment of the Vienna University of Technology and was a research associate in the same department in 2002–2004. At the University of Salzburg, he was assistant professor in 2005–2007 and associate professor from 2008 to 2010 in the field of ICTs and Society. His main research fields are social theory, critical theory, political economy of media, information, technology, information society studies, ICTs, and society. He is author of many academic publications, including Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age (New York: Routledge 2008) and Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies (New York: Routledge, 2011). He is coordinator of the research project “Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society” (2010–2013), which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, and management committee member of the EU COST action “Living in Surveillance Societies”.
Website: http://fuchs.uti.at
Contact: christian.fuchs@im.uu.se
David W. Hill is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology, University of York, UK. His PhD thesis explores the place of the ethical in contemporary social theory through an examination of the new media environment. His research interests include contemporary social theory (particularly work on technology, violence, and ethics); poststructuralism; media theory; urban studies; and the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Zygmunt Bauman, and Jean-François Lyotard. David previously studied Philosophical Studies: Knowledge and Human Interests (BA Honours) at Newcastle University, UK, and Philosophy (MA) at Durham University, UK.
Website: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/research/reshill.htm
Contact: dwh501@york.ac.uk
André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He currently leads two research projects: Rural Networking/Networking the Rural (FORMAS, with Magnus Andersson) and Secure Spaces: Media, Consumption and Social Surveillance (National Bank of Sweden, with Miyase Christensen). He has published several books and articles in the field of media and cultural studies, with a special focus on communication geography. Among his publications in English are the co-edited books Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space (with Miyase and Christian Christensen, 2011); Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity (with Amanda Lagerkvist, 2009); and Geographies of Communication: The Spatial Turn in Media Studies (with Jesper Falkheimer, 2006).
Contact: andre.jansson@kau.se
Deborah G. Johnson is the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics and Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the University of Virginia. Trained in philosophy, Johnson’s scholarship focuses broadly on the connections between ethics and technology, especially the ethical issues arising around computers and information technology. Two of her books were published in 2009: the 4th edition of Computer Ethics (Prentice Hall) and Technology and Society: Engineering our Sociotechnical Future, coedited with J. Wetmore (MIT Press). As an interdisciplinary scholar, Johnson has published over fifty papers on a wide range of topics and in a variety of journals and edited volumes. Currently Johnson serves as co-editor of the journal Ethics and Information Technology published by Springer and on the Executive Board of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Johnson received the John Barwise prize from the American Philosophical Association in 2004; the Sterling Olmsted Award from the Liberal Education Division of the American Society for Engineering Education in 2001; and the ACM SIGCAS Making a Difference Award in 2000.
Contact: dgj7p@virginia.edu
David Lyon is Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Surveillance Studies has been Lyon’s major research area for the past twenty years. David Lyon’s research, writing, and teaching interests revolve around major social transformations in the modern world. Questions of the information society, globalization, secularization, surveillance, and postmodernity all feature prominently in his work. His latest books are: Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance (Polity 2009); and, co-edited with Elia Zureik and Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine (Routledge 2010); and with Elia Zureik, Lynda Harling Stalker, Emily Smith, and Yolande Chan, Surveillance, Privacy and the Globalization of Personal Information (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2010). Other publications include Surveillance Studies: An Overview (Polity 2007); Surveillance after September 11 (Polity 2003); Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life (Open University Press 2001); The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society (Polity 1994); Postmodernity (Open University Press 1994); The Information Society: Issues and Illusions (Polity 1988).
Website: http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/?q=people/faculty/full-time/lyond
Contact: lyond@queensu.ca
Thomas Mathiesen, born 1933, became professor of sociology of law at the University of Oslo in 1971 and has been professor emeritus since 2003. He is the author of a number of books on sociology of law, criminology, media, prisons, power and counter-power, and surveillance. Six of them have been published in English: The Defences of the Weak: A Sociological Study of a Norwegian Correctional Institution (Tavistock Publications 1965); Across the Boundaries of Organizations (Glendessary Press 1971); The Politics of Abolition (Martin Robertson/Norwegian Universities Press/Wiley 1974); Law, Society and Political Action (Academic Press 1980); Prison on Trial (Sage Publications 1990/Waterside Press 2000/2006); Silently Silenced (Waterside Press 2004). Mathiesen is founder of KROM—the Norwegian prisoners’ association, where he is still active.
Website: http://folk.uio.no/thomasm/
Contact: thomas.mathiesen@jus.uio.no
Marisol Sandoval is member of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group. She graduated in Communication Studies from the University of Salzburg in 2008 with a master’s thesis on critical media theory and alternative media. From 2008 to 2010 she worked as a research fellow at the ICT&S Center at the University of Salzburg. Currently Marisol is recipient of a DOC-scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for her PhD research, which critically questions the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with a special focus on the (new) media industry. She is member of the working group Surveillance Technologies in Practice of the COST Action Living in Surveillance Societies. Marisol’s research interests are critical social theory, critical political economy of media and information, alternative media, ideology critique, business ethics and CSR, as well as Internet and surveillance.
Website: http://www.uti.at/sandoval
Contact: marisol.sandoval@uti.at
Iván Székely, social informatist, is an internationally known expert in the multidisciplinary fields of Data Protection and Freedom of Information. A long-time independent researcher, consultant and university lecturer, as well as former chief counsellor of the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Székely is at present Counsellor of the Open Society Archives at Central European University and associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. A founder of the newly democratic informational-legal system in Hungary, Székely was a leader of the first privacy and data protection research in Hungary and in the region (1989–1990). Since 1992 he has been participating in the advisory work for preparation of information and communication-related laws in newly democratic European countries. Székely is member of several international research groups, among others, the Broadening the Range Of Awareness in Data protection (BROAD), Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications (ETICA), European Privacy and Human Rights (EPHR), and Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS) projects of the EU, and advisory board member of Privacy International, the Eötvös Károly Policy Institute, Access Info Europe, and the European Privacy Institute. His studies and publications, as well as his research interests, are focused on information autonomy, openness and secrecy, privacy, identity, and archivistics.
Contact: Szekelyi@ceu.hu
Monika Taddicken works as a researcher at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Research and the cluster of excellence Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP) at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Previously, she was a researcher and lecturer at the University of Hohenheim, Department of Communication Science and Social Research, and the Research Centre for Media Economy and Communication. In 2008 and 2009, she coordinated the research project The Diffusion of the Media Innovation Web 2.0: Determinants and Effects from a User’s Perspective, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Research Foundation]. She studied social sciences in Göttingen, Germany, and Galway, Ireland, and worked as a junior researcher in the field of commercial online research. She then joined the University of Bamberg as a lecturer and research assistant in the Marketing Department. She received her doctor’s degree in 2008 from the University of Hohenheim. Her dissertation is about mode effects of web surveys. Her main working fields are online research, audience research, and methodology.
Website: http://www.journalistik.uni-hamburg.de, http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/index.php?id=9914#c38241
Contact: monika.taddicken@uni-hamburg.de
Daniel Trottier is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He completed his PhD in the department of Sociology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Under Dr. David Lyon’s supervision, his doctoral research explored information exchange and social media, using Facebook as a case study. Daniel is affiliated with the Surveillance Studies Centre research group, and has completed his previous degrees at McGill University and Concordia University in Montréal, Quebec.
Website: http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/?q=node/135
Contact: 5dt14@queensu.ca
Kent Wayland, an anthropologist, is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. His current research includes an interdisciplinary project analyzing surveillance and transparency as accountability systems, an ongoing examination of the cultural politics and technological practices of restoring World War II warplanes, and a curriculum development program aimed at preparing engineering students for engaged scholarship and intercultural exchange.
Contact: kaw6r@virginia.edu
Rolf H. Weber is Chair Professor for Civil, Commercial and European Law at the University of Zurich and Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is director of the European Law Institute and the Center for Information and Communication Law at the University of Zurich. Since 2008 Weber has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and, since 2009, a member of the High-level Panel of Advisers of the Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID). He is also engaged as an attorney-at-law and as a member of the editorial board of several Swiss and international legal periodicals.
Website: www.uzh.ch
Contact: rolf.weber@rwi.uzh.ch