University of Wisconsin–Madison
Biography Sue Robinson (PhD, Temple University) holds the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism research chair in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication. She teachers and researches all things journalism, integrating applied methodological techniques into all her spaces to learn through real-world application. She is interested in harnessing generative AI technologies …
Biography Nadja Schaetz is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg and co-founder of WAIHSS (Women* in AI, the Humanities and Social Sciences). Her work investigates the dual shaping of technology and society, with a particular focus on how power and inequities are reinforced or challenged through sociotechnical processes. With a PhD in journalism …
Biography Pascal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research interests include the digital transformation of the knowledge order, how it affects audiences’ information behavior, and what this means for media and platform governance. His PhD research conceptually and empirically dealt with the power-driven platformization of the …
Biography Theresa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam and part of the research team at the AI, Media & Democracy Lab. Her research concentrates on the governance and regulation of (concentrated) opinion power, the interdependence between media and Big Tech, and the integration of AI into …
Biography Dr Felix M. Simon is the Research Fellow in AI, Information and News at the Reuters Institute within the Department of Politics at Oxford University, a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at Corpus Christi College, all at the University of Oxford. His research looks at …
Biography Daniel Trielli is an Assistant Professor of Media and Democracy at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. His research examines how algorithmic curation and digital platforms shape how journalism is produced, distributed, and consumed. His interests include data and computational journalism, media literacy, and algorithmic accountability. He also writes occasionally for …
Biography Max van Drunen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. His research explores how technologies that produce or distribute public-interest content (such as news and political speech) should be regulated. He explores legal questions around political microtargeting, algorithmic transparency, platforms’ editorial responsibilities, and how European …
Biography Oscar Westlund (PhD) is a Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University since 2018, where he co-leads the OsloMet Digital Journalism Research Group and has institutionalized its OsloMet DJRG fellowship that has attracted more than 30 fellows from all over the world. Westlund is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital Journalism (since 2018), an internationally leading journal in …
Biography Rodrigo Zamith is an Associate Professor in the Journalism Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of journalism and technology, with a focus on the reconfiguration of journalism in a changing media environment and the development of digital research methods for social scientists.
Bio Wendy Weile Zhou is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia and a Faculty Associate at the Public Tech Media Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As a critical-cultural scholar, she studies digital public spheres and transnational journalism industries amid AI development and geopolitical turbulence, …