Penelope Papailias
Penelope Papailias (@penel_p) teaches anthropology at the University of Thessaly, where she also directs the Laboratory of Social Anthropology. She has written extensively on cultural memory, historical culture and witnessing, focusing on the intersection of technology and culture in critical media events, affective networks, spectacles of public death, social mourning and performative memorialization. Her books include Genres of Recollection: Archival Poetics and Modern Greece (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Digital Ethnography (2015, in Greek). She recently organized the conference Data-stories: New Media Aesthetics and Rhetorics for Critical Digital Ethnography
Petros Petridis
Petros Petridis holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology and currently teaches as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Thessaly. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Greek Research Center for the Humanities. His main interests focus on the ethnographic research of digital culture: specifically, digital economies, file sharing and intellectual property rights, algorithmic cultures, gamification, fan cultures and the politics of knowledge in technosocialities such as Peer to Peer networks and Massively Multiplayer Online Games.
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Mitsos Bilalis
Mitsos Bilalis is an Assistant Professor of Theory and Technology of Historical Information at the University of Thessaly, Department of History, Archaeology, Social Anthropology (Volos, Greece). He studied History at the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens and University of Sofia “Sv. Kliment Ohridski”. He has published on the theory of history, contemporary visual culture, social history of information and historical culture in the digital domain. He has written the monograph The Past on the Web: Image, technology and historical culture in Contemporary Greece (1994-2005), in Greek.
Athina Karatzogianni
Dr Athina Karatzogianni is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research portfolio, on the impact of digitization on conflict, economics and security, reflects a commitment to research that is rigorous and innovative, with applied practice that is relevant and internationally influential. She has an extensive record of publications and citations in disciplinary, field-specific and cross-disciplinary research outlets, and has demonstrated sustained success in securing research income from Research Councils UK and the European Commission. Her most recent book is (2018) Platform Economics: Rhetoric and Reality the "Sharing Economy". Athina can be contacted at athina.k@gmail.com and her publications can be found open access download in pre-publication form here: https://works.bepress.com/athina_karatzogianni/
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Sandra Robinson
Sandra Robinson teaches in the Communication and Media Studies program at The School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She studies the role of algorithms in contemporary media cultured this work engages with critical concerns around platforms, privacy, and power, in relation to how algorithms predict, pre-empt, and control information about people, processes, and things. Through current research into ‘algorithmic vitality,’ she is exploring the ‘vital network’ as a platform for control making possible processes such as micro-targeting and surveillance, algorithm-based content curation, and social profiling. She also conducts pedagogical research on data literacy and analytics; and, has a co-authored upper year textbook exploring freedom of expression in the context of law and communication coming out in Fall 2019.
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Robert Seyfert
Robert Seyfert is Akademischer Rat [Resarcher/Assistant Professor] at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He works at the intersection of Cultural Sociology, Media Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). His research interests are digital cultures and algorithmic finance, especially their anthropological, epistemic and affective aspects. Relevant publications are "Beyond Personal Feelings and Collective Emotions: A Theory of Social Affect" (Theory, Culture & Society) and Algorithmic Cultures. Essays on Meaning, Performance, and New Technologies, edited with Jonathan Roberge (Routledge 2016).
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Manolis Patiniotis
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George Mantzios is a PhD Candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Building on yearlong ethnographic fieldwork in Athens in 2017– primarily at Ellinikon, an abandoned national airport turned temporary refugee camp– George’s PhD research develops an experimental engagement with anthropologies of austerity and historicity in Greece informed by a political aesthetics of montage. Anachronistically drawing together disparate documentary materials, archival formations, literary genres, and visual images pertaining to the airport’s many repressed, forgotten, and/or fabular histories and futurities, he attempts to (re)present the disjointedness of historicist narrations of modern arrival, providing a lens through which to see the present in Greece negatively: by way of the places, figures, and temporalities that were negated so that the geographies of the present could take on their consecrated shape. George will be a teaching fellow at this year' s PSL.
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Manolis Patiniotis is a historian of science and technology. He has been working for some time on the history of modern science in the European periphery and beyond. His research focused on environments that did not originally participate in the making of the Enlightenment and tried to bridge the study of the emergence of European science with post-colonial studies. After spending a short time dealing with the so called first crisis of modernity, he turned to the history and philosophy of the Digital. From the perspective of history, he explores the shaping of digital ontology through the intersection of Information Theory with mid-war electrical engineering advancements. From the perspective of philosophy, he inquires into the notions of modularity and virtuality, and the new affordances they provide for social control and individual self-determination. He compulsively writes about all this at digiscapes.org.
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