Stefania Milan

Stefania Milan (stefaniamilan.net) is Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and Associate Professor (II) of Media Innovations at the University of Oslo. She is also an associate of the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society. She is the Principal Investigator of the DATACTIVE project, funded with a Starting Grant of the European Research Council and exploring the politics of massive data collection according to civil society (see https://data-activism.net). Before joining the University of Amsterdam, she was an assistant professor at Tilburg University, and a postdoc at The Citizen Lab and the Canada Center for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute. She is also a fellow at the Internet Policy Observatory, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; at the Center for Social Movement Studies of the European University Institute, and at the Centre for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. She has been teaching at the CEU and at the University of Lucerne, in Switzerland, where she was awarded the Excellent Teaching ("Hervorragende Lehre") title in 2009. She has contributed to many academic journals, writing on technology and participation, social movements, grassroots media, internet governance and cybersecurity. Stefania is also a freelance journalist and member of the UK National Union of Journalists. She serves non-commercial internet users in the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Supervisors: Donatella della Porta, Robert Hackett, Ronald Deibert, Sandra Braman, and Claudia Padovani
Address: https://stefaniamilan.net