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Alexander (Sasha) Kondakov, PhD, is an assistant professor at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland. He is also an editor for the Journal of Social Policy Studies published by the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. His international experience includes holding positions at the University of Helsinki’s major research centre in Russian and Eurasian studies, the Aleksanteri Institute, as well as research jobs at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Kondakov’s work is primarily focused on law and sexuality studies, more specifically on queer sexualities. His studies were published in such journals as Sexualities, Social & Legal Studies, Feminist Legal Studies, and European Journal of Criminology.
Alina Kontareva is a Ph.D. candidate at TIK – the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway and a research fellow and lecturer at Tomsk State University, Russia. Her expertise includes innovation studies, platform economy, digitalization, and research methods. As a Fulbright Visiting Graduate Student at the University of California, Davis, Alina collaborated with the ModLab on a project to code audio and visual data from a 3D motion-sensing game based on Shakespeare’s works. Alina was affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Science and Technology, the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she conducted several research projects at the intersection of Innovation Studies and STS. For her current project, she is investigating the platform economy in Russia and the competitive strategies of platform firms.
Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk, PhD, is an associate professor at the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. She is also a senior researcher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia and Moscow School of Social and Economic Science (MSSES). In 2016–2018 she was an associate researcher at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA (Los Angeles, the USA). Her research projects and publications are dedicated to the media city and smart city, problems of popular science, history in media, transmedia and film studies. She co-edited the book Language setting: communications management in the post-Soviet space (Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2016)
Siarhei Liubimau, PhD, is an associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences, as well as co-founder and head of the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism at the European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania. His previous research focus was trans-border urbanism. His PhD dissertation was at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland (2005–2010), and Bauhaus Kolleg “EU Urbanism” in Dessau, Germany (2006–2007). Since 2015 he has been doing both applied and conceptual research on nuclear urbanism, with a special focus on nuclear “de-industrialisation” (the case town is Visaginas, Lithuania). His other interests include the social dimension of digitalization (with a focus on knowledge infrastructures) and action research (with a focus on urbanism as a synthetic practice). He was a fellow at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (2012), the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria (2012–2013), and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland (2017). In the winter semester 2020–2021, he is a visiting lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
Lev Manovich (PhD) is one of the leading theorists of digital culture worldwide and a pioneer in applying data science to analyse contemporary culture. Manovich is the author and editor of 15 books, including Cultural Analytics, AI Aesthetics, Theories of Software Culture, Instagram and Contemporary Image, Software Takes Command, Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database and The Language of New Media, which was described as “the most suggestive and broad-ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan”. He was included in the list of “25 People Shaping the Future of Design” in 2013 and the list of “50 Most Interesting People Building the Future” in 2014. Manovich is a Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. The lab created projects for the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the New York Public Library, Google, and other clients. Manovich’s latest book Cultural Analytics was published by the MIT Press in fall 2020.
Alisa Maximova is a junior research fellow at the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities in the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Alisa is a sociologist interested in studying culture and interaction in various contexts. She carries out research in the field of Museum Studies, investigating how people make sense of exhibitions, perceive museum objects (exhibits, texts, multimedia, technological devices), and interact with each other in museum space. She focuses on contemporary cultural practices and on new approaches to museum visiting that emphasize audience participation and agency. Her other research interests include ethnomethodology and science and technology studies, as well as memory studies.
