Annette Markham is an American academic who originally came to Aarhus University as a visiting professor and is now Professor MSO of Information Studies at Aarhus University as well as Full Professor of Digital Ethics at the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago. She researches how identity, relationships, and cultural formations are constructed in and influenced by digitally saturated socio-technical contexts and is considered an expert internationally on research ethics and methods.

She teaches a number of PhD courses related to methodology, both at AU and elsewhere. At AU, she has developed three ongoing PhD ‘summer school’ models at AU: Visuality, Culture, and Method (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018); Pathways to Meaning (2012, 2014); Skagen Institute for Transgressive Methods (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018). Markham is the founder and director of the Future Making Research Consortium, an international network of researchers from industry and academia who work together in and across projects that explore the boundaries of current disciplinary and methodological practices and shape our possible futures. She currently manages several working research groups with Masters students, international scholars, artists, and activists.

These research activities are (or have been) coordinated with Mediaccones (Open University of Catalunya), Digital Ethnography Research Center (RMIT Melbourne), the Data Ethnographies project (RMIT Melbourne), The Social Media Collective (Microsoft Research Labs, Cambridge MA), the Ethics working group at Data and Society (New York), and the AoIR Ethics Working Group (Association of Internet Researchers).

She has contributed methodological and ethical expertise to multiple projects worldwide, including the Uncertain Archives project (University of Copenhagen), the Migratory Times research project (International group), and Mobile Life (Stockholm). 

Director of DIGSUM, Centre for Digital Social Research, Umeå University

Simon Lindgren is Professor of Sociology, and director of the Centre for Digital Social Research (DIGSUM),at Umeå University, Sweden. His research is about social interaction, participation, power, and resistance in networked online media. He also works with developing methodological tools and strategies for analysing discursive and social network aspects of the evolving digital media landscape. He is the author of New Noise: A Cultural Sociology of Digital Disruption(2013) and Digital Media & Society(2017).

Brit Ross Winthereik is Professor in the Technologies in Practice research group at the IT University of Copenhagen and Head of Center for Digital Welfare. Her research focuses on public sector digitalization in Denmark, energy infrastructures, digital data, and accountability.

She has published widely in Science and Technology Studies and anthropology journals. Her book Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Infrastructures and Partnerships (MIT Press, 2013) with Casper Bruun Jensen and her research on wave energy investigate lateral ethnography as a mode of analysis. She is a co-founder of the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies (DASTS), and of the ETHOS Lab.  

Dina is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at KU Leuven and an external PhD in Arctic Technology at UNIS. She worked in television for 7 years before obtaining an MBA and working as a business consultant specializing in brand identity in the fashion industry for 5 years. Her doctoral research project, ‘Identity in Change’, is based in the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard where she is studying the impacts of climate change on the community of Longyearbyen. The project examines Identity of Place through multiple lenses, both from within the community and that which is projected onto it. The project approaches the research question via 7 lenses: Ethnography, Science, Geopolitics, Media, Tourism, Heritage, and Art. Dina speaks English, French and Norwegian.

Dr Jaz Hee-jeong Choi is the Director of the Care-full Design Lab and a Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. As a transdisciplinary researcher, her approach to urban sustainability recognises 'play' and 'care' as the core of transformational encounters in cities as complex cyberphysical networks. She builds on this to explore, often through playful and participatory engagements, how design in varying forms and scale can be done care-fully in different cultural contexts.

Currently, she is exploring care-full design for liveable and equitable urban futures across three inter-related domains: self-care and mutual aid; creative and impactful research methods, and; co-creative urban transformation.

Marisa Leavitt Cohn is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and a member of the Technologies in Practice and Interaction Design research groups. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she brings together anthropological and design-oriented approaches to the study of information systems, drawing on methods from Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and Human Computer Interaction (HCI).

Her research examines temporal imaginaries of sociotechnical change and how computational systems mediate organizational relationships and practice. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork work across a range of sites from large-scale infrastructures for space science and to small software and game development teams. She is interested in the role of critical methodologies in anthropology and design, governmentality of software work, and how computational media shape the politics of design and innovation. Her current work examines obsolescence, repair and maintenance, in long-lived technological systems.

Pedro Ferreira has a multidisciplinary background in Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction. His interests lie in the qualitative understanding of everyday technology use mainly through the lens of leisure and playfulness. He obtained his doctoral degree from KTH in Stockholm, where he studied and wrote on issues of play in International Development work. Recently his research interests have focused on technology use nature/outdoor settings. Apart from his background in HCI and CS, he also teaches and supervises within STS, Data analytics and digital methods.  

Peter Danholt (PhD) is associate professor at Information Studies, Aarhus University. His research is on the transformative aspects of science and technology in healthcare practices, organizations, design and daily life. His research draws on STS, feminism, post-structuralism and actor-network theory. Peter Danholt is vice president of the Danish Association of STS (DASTS), chief-editor of STS Encounters and Head of the Centre for STS-studies, Aarhus University.

Rikke Toft Nørgård is Associate Professor in Educational Design & Technology at Aarhus University. She is in the steering group of Centre for Higher Education Futures (CHEF), coordinator of the research unit Educational Design Thinking & Practices as well as coordinating the MA in ICT-Based Educational Design, all at Aarhus University. She is also a board member of the international Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES) and the Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference (OEEC).

Nørgård's research focuses on the complexities and interrelationships of technology, culture, education, design and philosophy. She is consortium partner lead in several funded projects with a particular focus on developing future education. Projects include 'VASE – Value-Sensitive Design in Higher Education', 'IGNITE – Design Thinking and Making in the Arts and Sciences' and 'STAK – Students' Academic Digital Competencies in Higher Education'.

Recently, she has published 'Networked learning in, for and with the world (2019), 'Critical robotics: exploring a new paradigm' (2018) and Designing hybrid learning spaces in higher education (2019). In 2020 she is giving the Networked Learning Conference keynote on Technological Imagination.

Jan Løhmann Stephensen, PhD, Associate Professor at Dept. of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. Jan does research on discourses on creativity from a critical socio-economic perspective, most recently also in relation to the human/nonhuman entanglement in so-called post-creative processes and how this might challenge the ways we think and talk about as well as organize and practice creativity. In addition, he has researched and published on ASMR, intermedia transpositions (adaptation, novelization), cultural and political participation among young people, artistic strategies for making the Anthropocene tangible and more.

He is also co-founding editor of Conjunctions: transdisciplinary journal of cultural participation.

Jakob Linaa Jensen, Ph.D., M.A. in Politics is Research Director of Social Media at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. 

He has been associate professor of Media Studies at Aarhus University for nine years. He has also headed af European task force on social media methods. He has published three monographies, three edited volumes and more than 30 international journal articles.

His main research focus is political and democratic uses of social media and on testing and developing new methods for social media research. His research interests also include political communication, the public sphere, social media, internet politics, sociology of the Internet and cognitive affordances of new media.  

Traci Nathans-Kelly, PhD, currently teaches in Cornell University's College of Engineering. As a member of the Engineering Communications Program, she interacts daily to help undergraduates and graduates alike to hone their messages to their instructors, their internship managers, co-op directors, thesis and dissertation committees, and for audiences at conferences.

She teaches f2f and online. Before coming to Cornell in 2012, she spent 14 years working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the College of Engineering. Mostly notably, she taught in the online Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) degree and the Masters of Engine Systems (MEES) degree, aiding practicing engineers communicate targeted technical messages with strength, evidence, and conviction.

In 2017, she finished her tenure as the series editor for the IEEE Professional Communication book series titled Professional Engineering Communication. The book Slide Rules: Design, Build, and Archive Presentations in the Engineering and Technical Fields was co-authored with Christine G. Nicometo. Aside from campus teaching, she conducts workshops and training for such entities as The Boeing Company, Flad Architects, IEEE-USA, Wolters Kluwer, and others.  

Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth is an artist, digital ethnographer and Director of the Design and Creative Practice ECP Platform.

Previously Hjorth was Deputy Dean, Research and Innovation, in the School of Media and Communication (2013-2016) and co-founded the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) with Professor Heather Horst.

I am an Anthropologists working hard to build a common ground for interdisciplinarity on tech studies. I have in my background a PhD and a Master in Knowledge and Information Society (IN3-UOC), a Bachelor in Anthropology and a DEA in Political Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition,  I was trained as a filmmaker. I taught 5 years in Methodology and Media Anthropology in the University of Buenos Aires and I have been organizing summer schools and participating in PhD and Master programmes teaching Digital Ethnography and Digital Materiality. 

I am a member of mediaccions research group at UOC, Spain, Future Making Space, Aarhus, Denmark and Emerging Technologies Lab at Monash, Australia. In the past, I was a member of the Media and Visual Anthropology Research Group in UBA and IDES (Institute of Economic and Social Development). 
The recent projects I have been involved are Transliteracy & Unlocking Digital Assets. 
Currently, I am the co-convener of Future Anthropologies Network at EASA. 
At the moment I am a Research fellow at DERC (Digital Ethnography Research Center), RMIT Australia. 
 

Research Interest

The research lines that I pursue lie on the intersection of Technology, Anthropology, Design, Digital Ethnography and Future Studies. Data, Artificial Intelligence and Smart Cities are keywords in the work that I have been doing in recent years. My interests are focused on the development of emerging technologies and future imaginaries, as well as work regimes  and new digital technologies. Discourses on the technological future and the methodological development in the social sciences to understand these contemporary issues are central to my research agenda and to the approach in projects that I engage. My scope is interdisciplinary and collaborative in terms of disciplines and scenarios where to intervene. 

Dalida María Benfield (Panama/USA/Finland) is an artist and writer and the Co-Founder and Director of Research and Programs at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research. The Center, founded in 2016, is an international non-profit institute that intersects the arts, design, technology, and transdisciplinary research across the sciences, humanities, and social justice.

The Center's programs include residencies (Italy, Mexico and other locations), an annual research fellows program, working groups, exhibitions, publications, and public art education events, globally. Dalida's work also includes producing videos, installations, archives, artists’ books, workshops, and other interventions across online and in person platforms and diverse spaces, and often, collectively.

Her writings engage the politics and pedagogies of global information flows as they intersect with social and economic inequality and constructions of gender, race, and nation; global Latinx media; the geo-politics of digital media art; iterations of "media justice"; popular media education as a praxis of unschooling; decolonial and feminist aesthetics; and transnational feminist cultural production and social critique. She is the co-founder of numerous autonomous media and education initiatives, including 24HOURSOCIALSTUDIES, The Institute of (Im)Possible Subjects, Women's Media Archive, and Video Machete. Her career spans the spaces of higher education and research institutes, NGO/non-profit culture and education, and independent media. 

Matthias Stephan researches primarily on postmodernism, and its implications not only in literary fiction but also in the Gothic, science fiction, and crime fiction. His work has appeared in Scandinavian Studies, Coolabah, and La Questione Romantica, and his monograph Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century is available from Palgrave Macmillan. He is general editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies, and coordinator of the Centre for Studies in Otherness.