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Organisers

Tracey P. Lauriault

Assistant Professor, Critical Media and Big Data, Communication and Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communications, Carleton University, Canada

Tracey Lauriault joined the School in 2015. Her areas of expertise are, critical data studies; small, big and spatial data policy; data infrastructures and open data, open government, geospatial data, open smart cities, and the preservation and archiving of data. She is a research associate with the European Research Council funded Programmable City Project led by Rob Kitchin at Maynooth University in Ireland and the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University in Canada. She is a Steering Committee member of Research Data Canada; on the board of Open North, a member of the Institute for Data Science at Carleton and is winner of the 2016 Inaugural Open Data Leadership award for Canada.

Merlyna Lim

Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society and Associate Professor, Communication and Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communications, Carleton University, Canada

Merlyna Lim’s research and teaching interests revolve around socio-political implications of media and technology, in relations to social movements, citizen participation, and social change. Using empirical evidence from Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, Lim’s current research attempts to analyze contemporary social movements, spatially and temporally, to offers an in-depth understanding of the relationship between movements, urban space and digital media. Prior to joining Carleton University, Lim has held positions in Princeton University, Arizona State University, and the University of Southern California, among others. In 2016, Lim was named a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s New College of Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Helen Kennedy

Professor of Digital Society, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield

Helen Kennedy is Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield. Over 20+ years, she has researched how digital developments are experienced by non-experts/citizens and how these experiences can inform the work of digital media practitioners. She is currently interested in the datafication of everyday life, and is researching public attitudes to data mining and related issues such as trust in data, data and inequality and what ‘good’ data practice might look like.

Jo Bates

Lecturer in Information Politics and Policy, Information School, University of Sheffield

Jo Bates is Lecturer in the Information School at the University of Sheffield. Jo’s research focuses on two related areas: the socio-cultural and political economic influences on the production, sharing and re-use of data, and public policy on data access and re-use. She has conducted research on the development of Open Government Data policy in the UK and is currently researching the socio-cultural life of weather data.

Ganaele Langlois

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, York University and Associate Director Infoscape Lab

Ganaele Langlois is Assistant Professor in the Deparment of Communication Studies at York University (Toronto, Canada). Her research interests lies in software studies and critical media theory. She recently co-edited Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data (with Joanna Redden and Greg Elmer, Bloomsbury, 2015). She also wrote Meaning in the Age of Social Media (Palgrave, 2014).

Ysabel Gerrard

Intern at the Social Media Collective, Microsoft Research New England & Lecturer in Digital Media & Society, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield

Ysabel is an Intern at the Social Media Collective, Microsoft Research New England and will join the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Digital Media and Society in September 2017. She is currently researching Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr’s algorithmic moderation of eating disorder hashtags and content, and is also publishing her research on cultures of derision in teen drama television fandom. Gerrard recently submitted her PhD thesis, entitled ‘Derision, Guilt and Pleasure: Teen Drama Fandom in a Social Media Age.’

Scott Dobson-Mitchell

Local Coordinator, PhD Candidate (ABD), Communication & Media Studies, School of Journalism & Communication, Carleton University

A former newspaper columnist and writer, blogger, and cartoonist with Maclean’s magazine, Scott Mitchell is a PhD candidate (ABD) in Communication at Carleton University. After completing a BSc in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Waterloo, and then a Master of Science with research in bioinformatics, Scott focused his research on the public communication of science, risk, and big data.

Jessi Ring

Local Coordinator, PhD Candidate (ABD), Communication & Media Studies, School of Journalism & Communication, Carleton University

Jessi Ring is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in Communication at Carleton University. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research investigates different Canadian ‘tinker’ spaces to locate feminist practices that disrupt typical White-hetero-masculinist understandings of how technology should be created and used, and who can have technological expertise and skills. She has also explored the relationship between feminism, hacktivism, and the Hacker Ethic in her article titled “Hacktivism, Interrupted: Moving Beyond the “Hacker Ethic” to Find Feminist Hacktivism” that was published in the International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies.