In recent years, the whistleblowing agenda has advanced technically, legally and journalistically. This panel composed by journalists, activists and academics will map the advances in the right to tel...
Stefania Milan
Stefania Milan is Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam (UoA). Her research explores technology and participation, cybersecurity and internet governance, and emerging data epistemologies. She is the Principal Investigator of the projects DATACTIVE and ALEX-Algorithms Exposed, both funded by the European Research Council and investigating from different perspectives the evolution of activism and publics in the age of datafication. Prior to joining UvA, she worked at, among others, the Citizen Lab (University of Toronto) and Tilburg University, where she directed the master specialisation in data journalism and founded the Data J Lab. She has a decade-long experience in journalism, and is a proud member of the UK National Union of Journalists. Stefania is the author of Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and co-author of Media/Society (Sage, 2011).
The many shapes of leaks: investigative reporting, data activism and digital resistance as truth-telling practices
In recent years, the whistleblowing agenda has advanced technically, legally and journalistically. This panel composed by journalists, activists and academics will map the advances in the right to tel...
Facing the challenges of a datafied society: how journalist, activists and hackers can make sense of datafication. The contemporary datafied society is hybrid in nature: information technology, polic...
