Stefania Milan - Biography#


Stefania Milan (stefaniamilan.net) works at the intersection of political participation, digital technology, and governance, with focus on infrastructure and political agency. She is Professor of Critical Data Studies at University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Chair “AI and Democracy” at the Florence School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute) and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University). Currently, Stefania leads the project Citizenship and standard-setting in digital networks (in-sight.it), funded by the Dutch Research Council, and the Work Package “Innovative methods and interpretable artificial intelligence to measure transition performance” within the project Sustainability Performances, Evidence & Scenarios (SPES, https://www.sustainabilityperformances.eu), funded by the European Commission. In 2015 - 2021 she was the Principal Investigator of DATACTIVE (data-activism.net) and of Algorithms Exposed (ALEX) (algorithms.exposed), both funded by the European Research Council. In 2017, she co-founded the Big Data from the South Research Initiative, investigating the impact of datafication and surveillance on communities at the margins. Stefania holds a PhD in Political and Social Science from the European University Institute. Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, she worked at, among others, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, Tilburg University, and the Central European University. Stefania is the author of, among others, Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013/2016), co-author of Media/Society (Sage, 2011), and co-editor of COVID-19 from the Margins. Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society (Institute of Network Cultures, 2021).

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