Elena Maris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Maris’s research is concerned with the interactions and tensions between media/tech industries and their users or audiences.
She is particularly interested in the ways they use technology to understand and influence one another. She also studies how people experience and leverage their identities through their experiences with popular culture, technology and the internet.
Citizen D advice:
- Rethink the role of self-regulatory measures in tech industry
- Demand enforceable standards of human rights
- Fight for big tech regulation
More information:
- The Humanities Can’t Save Big Tech From Itself – article
- A Black Woman Invented Home Security. Why Did It Go So Wrong? – article
- The steep cost of capture – article
About the podcast:
Podcast Citizen D gives you a reason for being a productive citizen. Citizen D features talks by experts in different fields focusing on the pressing topics in the field of information society and media. We can do it. Full steam ahead!
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