Publications |
Publications of Veronica Barassi |
Main Focuses |
- artificial intelligence and human rights
- data technologies and children’s data rights
- media cultures and digital transformations
- anthropology and ethnography of media
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Fields of research |
- data technologies and children’s data rights
- media cultures and digital transformations
- anthropology and ethnography of media
- artificial intelligence and human rights
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Education |
- Ph.D Social Anthropology (with Media Supervision, MRes distinction 2006), Goldsmiths, University of London, AHRC Funded. Submitted November 2009, Passed without corrections 100/100, Jan 2010
- B.A. Anthropology and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London (First Honors), 2001- 2004
- Liceo Classico A. Manzoni, Milano, Diploma di Maturità Classica 81/100 1995- 2000
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Professional Career |
- Associate Professor in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London 2018 – 2020
- Assistant Professor (Lecturer B – Tenured) in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London, 2013 – 2018
- Assistant Professor (Lecturer A - Non-Tenured) in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London, 2011 - 2013
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant/ Postgraduate Community Coordinator, Institute of Contemporary European Studies, European Business School, Regent’s University London, 2010 – 2012
- Research Assistant on the Spaces of News Project, Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre, directed by Professor James Curran and Professor Natalie Fenton, 2009 - 2010
- Research Associate, Institute of Contemporary European Studies, Regents University London, 2009 – 2010
- Associate Lecturer Media and Communications Department, Goldsmiths University of London, Assistant of Professor Nick Couldry, 2008 - 2011
- Associate Lecturer, Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths University of London, Assistant of Professor David Graeber and Professor Stephen Nugent, 2008 – 2010
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Teaching Activities |
- Media Cultures and Society (PhD)
- Social Media in Context: Economics, Politics and Culture (MA)
- Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in the Algorithmic Society (MA)
- Global Media, Digital Networks and Communication Power (BA)
- Understanding Data Cultures: From Social Media to Artificial Intelligence (BA)
- Media Portfolio (MA/BA)
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Projects |
ProjectsLink Veronica Barassi |
Projects |
The Human Error Project Child | Data | Citizen |
Affiliations |
- Visiting Professor in Visual and Media Anthropology at the University of Münster, Germany (ongoing)
- Visiting Professor in Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles, Spring 2019 working with Prof. Leah Lievrouw Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Media Ethnography Group, University of London, 2013 - 2020
- Peer Reviewer College Member for the Economic and Social Research Council, 2016 - 2019
- Committee Member for The Irish Research Council for the COALESCE, Research Fund Grant Reviews, 2018 - 2019
- Member of the Best Book Award Committee, Interest Group Activism, Communication and Social Justice, International Communication Association (ICA), 2018 – 2019
- Vice - Chair of the Digital Culture Section, European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), 2012 – 2014
- Chair of the E-Seminars of the European Association of Social Anthropology Media Anthropology Network, 2013
- Representative Member in the Arts, Design, Media Subject Centre of the Higher Education Academy, 2009 - 2010
- Executive Committee Member of the Media and Cultural Studies Association, Postgraduate Network, 2008 - 2010
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Awards |
- 2021-2022 Basic Research Fund Award (GFF). Project Name: The Human Error Project: AI, Human Rights and the Struggle over Algorithmic Profiling (98,547 CHF)
- 2018 – 2019 Mid-Career Fellowship of the British Academy Child | Data | Citizen: Data Flows, Family Life and the Digital Profiling of Children. The total value of the project was paid 80% by the British Academy and 20% by Goldsmiths University of London (£115,000)
- 2014 – 2016 Economic and Social Research Council, Seminar Series Award. Project Name: Social Movements and Media Technologies: Present Challenges and Future Developments Seminar Series, (£29,923)
- 2010 – 2011 Small Research Grant, British Academy (BA) (£5,297)
- 2010 – 2011 Project Name: Alternative Voices in Europe: Social Media Activism and Political Imagination
- 2009 – 2011 Anthropology Departmental Bursary, Goldsmiths University of London (£1,000)
- 2006 – 2009 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Award – Project Title: Mediated Resistance: Alternative Media, Political Action and Imagination in Britain (£58,000). Grant covered: university fees and maintenance)
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Talks |
- Barassi Veronica 2020. AI governance and accountability. Women Leading In AI, 22 November.
- Barassi Veronica 2020. Data Mining in the Sandbox: Children's Safety Online. Global Child Forum, 18 November.
- Barassi Veronica 2020. #LivingTogether: The Caring City. Swissnex Boston, 5 November.
- Barassi Veronica 2020. Can we still imagine a life without surveillance? DIG Awards, 9 October.
- Barassi Veronica. 2019. What do tech-companies know about your children? TedxMileHigh, Denver, Colorado 16 November.
- Barassi Veronica. 2019. AI Ethics Panel, Digital Summit, Dublin, Ireland. 19, September.
- Barassi Veronica. 2019. Datafied Citizens in the Age of Coerced Digital Participation, Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, 3 April.
- Barassi Veronica. 2019. AI, the Fallacy of Algorithms and the Datafication of Citizens from before birth. All Access AI Network Launch, Goldsmiths University of London.
- Barassi Veronica. 2019. Data and Policy Panel Southern California Association of Governments and Los Angeles County School of Data Conference, KEYNOTE Panel, 1 February.
- Barassi Veronica. 2018. Data and Citizenship: Critical Questions and Research Perspectives from the Margins, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, 30 November.
- Barassi Veronica and Dencik Lina. 2018. Data and Citizenship: Critical Questions and Research Perspectives from the Margins, Department of Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles, 29 November.
- Barassi Veronica and Dencik Lina. 2018. Data and Citizenship: Critical Questions and Research Perspectives from the Margins, Centre of Philanthropy and Civil Society, Stanford University, 28 November.
- Barassi Veronica. 2018. Studying Digital Media: Perspectives on Literacy, Activism and Citizenship Department of Communication, University of Washington with Dr. Dencik Lina and Dr. Renee Hobbs, 27 November.
- Barassi Veronica and Dencik Lina. 2018. Data and Citizenship: Critical Questions and Research Perspectives from the Margins, Department of Communications, University of San Francisco, 26 November.
- Barassi Veronica. 2018. Child | Data | Citizen: Datafication, Algorithmic Inaccuracies and the Profiling of Future Citizens, Research and Inquiry Conference of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles, KEYNOTE, 3rd May.
- Barassi Veronica. 2017. Automated Homes: Ethnographic Reflections on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Family Life, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine, 28 of April.
- Barassi Veronica. 2017. From Digital to Datafied Citizens? Re-Thinking Digital Citizenship in the Age of Big Data, Centre for Media Studies Research Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 8 of March.
- Barassi Veronica. 2017. Big Data, Ethnography and the Datafication of Everyday Life, CAMRI Research Seminar Series, University of Westminster, London 9 February.
- Barassi, Veronica. 2016. Digital Citizens/Datafied Selves: Social Media Activism and the Issue of Political Profiling, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California. 19 September.
- Barassi, Veronica. 2016. Digital Participation? Civic Engagement, Family Life and the Everyday Construction of our Data Futures. Citizen’s Participation in Health Seminar Series, King’s College London. 15 June.
- Barassi, Veronica. 2015 Digital Politics and The Network as Empty Signifier, at Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, 4 December.
- Barassi, Veronica. 2015. Social Media Platforms and Everyday Use. An Ethnographic Critique. Guest Lecture Bournemouth University. 11 November.
- Barassi, Veronica. 2014. Conflicting Temporalities. Democracy Forum Seminar. The Impact of Social Media on Democracy, House of Commons (UK Parliament). London. 10 November.
- Barassi Veronica, 2013. Web 2.0 and Social Movements Guest Lecture at Ghent University, Belgium. 11 December.
- Barassi, Veronica, 2013 Talks in Digital Culture: Digital Protest, Social Movements and Their Technologies Roundtable Discussion with Stefania Milan, King’s College London, 29 November.
- Barassi Veronica and Treré, Emiliano. 2011. Does Web 3.0 follow Web 2.0? Deconstructing Theoretical Assumption through Practice, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Obierta de Catalunya, Barcelona, 26 November.
- Barassi, Veronica and Treré, Emiliano. 2011. Does Web 3.0 follow Web 2.0? Deconstructing Theoretical Assumptions through Practice. Department of Communication Sciences and Journalism, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, 24 of November.
- Barassi, Veronica. 2010. Networks, Connections and Technologies: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Spaces of Political Movements. Department of Anthropology Research Seminars, Goldsmiths University of London, 3 February.
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Additional Information |
Prof. Dr. Barassi is a Professor in Media and Communication Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS-HSG), she is also the Chair for Media and Culture in the Institute of Media and Communication Management (MCM-HSG). Prof Dr. Barassi teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the intersection of media and communication studies (e.g. state/media/market relations; media concentration and ownership; global media and globalization theories); cultural studies (e.g. theories of representation; ideology; gender, race, postcolonial and critical theory) and media sociology and anthropology (e.g. classical social theory, myth, symbolism and rituals). Her research is interdisciplinary, critical, and cross-cultural in nature and is primarily concerned with understanding of the democratic possibilities and challenges of digital transformations by looking at the emergence of new forms of networked sociality and identity (from social media to AI). |
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