Alex Pazaitis is a core member of the interdisciplinary research collective P2P Lab, a spin‐off of the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and of the P2P Foundation, and Junior Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Ragnar Nurkse Department. Alex is involved in numerous research activities and research and innovation projects. He has professional experience in project management and has worked as a consultant for private and public organizations. His research interests include technology governance; innovation policy; digital commons; open cooperativism and distributed ledger technologies.
Christian Pentzold is Professor of Media and Communication in the Department for Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University. Before that, he worked in the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen and at Chemnitz University of Technology. He is broadly interested in the construction and appropriation of digital media and the roles, information and communication technologies play in modern society. His work in communication research and media analysis links to insights coming from cultural sociology, linguistics, as well as science and technology studies. Currently he is looking at the public understanding of big data, the organization, and governance of peer production, as well as the interplay of time, data, and media. Beyond that, he is interested in applying theories of practice to the study of media and communication and in linking qualitative with quantitative methods.
Gwen Shaffer is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at California State University, Long Beach, USA, where she teaches courses on Internet regulation and communication law. Her research on topics such as broadband connectivity and data privacy explore ways in which digital exclusion and algorithmic bias compound existing challenges. Her research has been published in the Journal of Information Policy, Media, Culture & Society, First Monday, and the Association for Computing Machinery’s Transactions on Internet Technology, among other journals and book chapters. She has also co‐authored policy papers on topics such as mobile phone privacy and digital inclusion. Gwen Shaffer chairs the City of Long Beach’s Technology and Innovation Commission, which advises the mayor and City Council on relevant policy issues.
Adrian Smith is Professor of Technology and Society at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, UK. He is involved in interdisciplinary research projects investigating the politics of technology and innovation for sustainable development. He has a particular interest in grassroots involvement in this politics, and questions of democracy. This has included studies of makerspaces in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
Sebastian Spaeth holds the Chair of Management and Digital Markets at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He studied Business and Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and graduated at the Institute of Technology at Linköping University, Sweden. He received his doctorate in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland where, cooperating with Georg von Krogh, he examined open source software development projects. He conducted research on collaborative open innovation and collaborative business models as a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. In 2013, he founded the Chair of Management and Digital Markets at the University of Hamburg to focus on the challenges and opportunities arising from the digitalization of society for citizens and organization. He has published in the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Research Policy, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly.
Michael Stevenson is Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the Media Studies Department, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests include a range of topics in Internet history, software studies, and digital culture. He is working on a book called Making Media New, about the historical development of social media and the broader new media field in the 1990s and 2000s. In 2019 he made Geeks in Cyberspace, a web documentary about a group of open source software enthusiasts who created the influential websites Slashdot, Everything2, and PerlMonks.
Olof Sundin is Professor in Information Studies at Lund University, Sweden. He holds a doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2003). His work primarily concerns the configuration of information in contemporary society, the construction of public knowledge in relation to trust, and information searching and use. He has investigated Wikipedia, as well as commercial encyclopedias, from a perspective of use and findability as well as in terms of how encyclopedic information is constructed. In 2019, he published the book Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life (Routledge).
Abraham Taherivand studied Business Informatics, Information Management and Engineering and Design Thinking. He is a multiple award‐winner at national and international business plan competitions, holds various patents, and has been a serial entrepreneur since 2008 in the tech, Internet, and consumer sector. He has worked as a strategy consultant in various projects for companies and organizations. Since 2012 he has worked for Wikimedia Deutschland. He is the co‐founder of the first worldwide free structured knowledge database Wikidata and was awarded the Open Data Award by Tim Berners‐Lee and his teams. Since December 2016, Abraham Taherivand has been the Managing Director of Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Nathaniel Tkacz is a reader in digital media and culture and Deputy Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK. He has written widely and critically on the topics of peer production, currency, money, and software culture. In 2012, he co‐founded the MoneyLab network in Europe with Geert Lovink and is co‐editor of the first MoneyLab Reader (2015). He has edited and authored a number of other monographs, including Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness (2015).
Sophie Toupin is a Fonds de recherche du Québec ‐ Société et culture (FRQSC) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam where she explores the linkages between feminism, data and infrastructure. She completed her PhD in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her doctoral research examined the relationship between technology and anti‐colonialism during the South African anti‐apartheid struggle. Her work has been published in New Media and Society, Feminist Media Studies, Canadian Journal of Communication, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, and Journal of Peer Production, among others.
Peter Troxler is a research professor at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. He studies how emerging ways of designing and manufacturing by “fabbers” and “makers,” enabled by readily available direct digital manufacturing technologies, challenge and influence incumbent practices in the creative and manufacturing industries. His research interests are the intersections and interdependencies of people, technology, business, society, and the environment. He also investigates how new paradigms of cooperation and business models are developed based on network patterns, self‐organization, lateral governance, and open source principles. He holds a PhD (1999) in Technology, Management and Economics and an MSc (1993) in Industrial Engineering, both from ETH Zurich. He has worked internationally in the energy industry, as a consultant to private and public sector enterprises, as a researcher and research manager in organizational psychology and artificial intelligence, and as a director and producer in various artistic projects in music, theater, literature, and social arts.
Pablo Velasco González is an assistant professor in the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he co‐directs the Center for the Study of Technological, Emerging, and Ethical Methods. His work has focused on digital culture and politics of technical devices, in particular blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. He has collaborated on these and other topics in two Moneylab Readers (2015, 2018), the Metaphilosophy and APRA journals, and several book chapters. More information about his work can be found at pablov.me
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