Сети города. Люди. Технологии. Власти - [171]
Martin Dodge is a senior lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. He completed his PhD at University College London and has previously worked at Cardiff University and the University of Nottingham. He has coauthored three books analysing the spatiality of digital networks and computer technologies: Mapping Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000), Atlas of Cyberspace (Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Code/Space (MIT Press, 2011). His major research interests are currently visual culture and the politics of mapping, and infrastructural geographies read through historical and archival perspectives.
Maria Rita D’Orsogna received her PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 2003. She is a professor of Mathematics and at the Institute for Sustainability at California State University, Northridge, as well as the Associate Director of the Institute for Pure and Applied Math at UCLA, and an adjunct professor in Computational Medicine at UCLA. Her scientific interests are the mathematical modeling of biological and sociological systems in partnership with experimental and behavioral scientists. In 2007, Maria became a hands-on activist in her successful quest to protect vulnerable Italian land and coastal areas from Big Oil. Using social media, in-person lectures, investigative journalism, and by closely collaborating with local residents, she founded and led a movement that forced the repeal of dozens of oil leases and planned refineries and the implementation of legislation that established a 12-mile no-oil drilling zone around the Italian coastline.
Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, is associate professor in Media and Communication Studies at Jönköping University, Sweden. Her post-doctorate in Film Studies is from Concordia University, Canada and she holds a PhD in Communication and Semiotics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil; a MA in Communication and Semiotics also from the Pontifical Catholic University, São Paulo; and a BA in Industrial Design from the São Paulo State University, Brazil. She is the co-editor (with Geane Alzamora) of Exploring Transmedia Journalism in the Digital Age (2018); co-editor (with Matthew Freeman) of The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies (2018), and co-editor (with Geane Alzamora and Simone Malaguti) of Kulturdialoge Brasilien-Deutschland: Design, Film, Literatur, Medien (Cultural Dialogue Brazil-Germany: Design, Film, Literature, and Media) (2008).
Elvira Gizatullina is a human geographer and urban researcher. She has participated in academic and applied projects in urban sociology and urban development. Her research interests include social processes, care and (self)governance in post-socialist housing estates, online neighbouring practices, quality of urban life, design and development of public spaces. She is a member of the research teams that study housing development in post-Soviet Saint Petersburg (2018–2021).
Konstantin Glazkov holds a Phd in Sociology from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. He is the producer of the Telegram channel “WrongTech” on the social context of digital technology development. He does research in the fields of digital technologies, public transport, public interaction, gamification, and the perception of urban space. His recent research projects have focused on studying the transformation of public demeanor in the context of location-based interactions and the transition to a turnstile-free system of fare payment in urban ground transport in Moscow.
Andrei Gornykh, PhD, is a professor at the European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania. He is the author of monographs «Formalism: from Form to Text and Beyond» (2002), «Media and Society» (2013). His research interests include critical theory, psychoanalysis, cultural and visual studies.
Ksenia Gusarova holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities. She is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the Russian State University for the Humanities, an associate professor at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, as well as at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Her research area includes the cultural history of the body, fashion and visual culture.
Rob Kitchin is a professor and ERC Advanced Investigator at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is (co)principal investigator of the Programmable City project and the Building City Dashboards project. He has published widely across the social sciences, including 26 authored/edited books and over 180 articles and book chapters. He was the editor-in-chief of the 12-volume
