Hi there! I’m Elinor, a digital rights advocate, feminist, researcher and journalist.
Find me on Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi, BlueSky: @elinorcarmi@bsky.social, or Mastodon: @DrPinkeee@assemblag.es
I am a Senior Lecturer in Data Politics and Social Justice at the Sociology & Criminology Department at City University, London, UK. I work on: (1) PI on The Human Data Good Practice Project as part of my Weizenbaum Institute Open Fellowship; (2) CO-I on the Nuffield Foundation project “Developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard”; (3) PI on the City University funded project “What mobilizes people to go against big-tech”. I am the co-director of the MSc Data, Policy and Society.
I recently worked on: (1) POST Parliamentary Academic Fellowship working with the UK’s Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee on the project I proposed: “Digital literacies for a healthy democracy”. (2) CO-I on the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems hub project “Trustworthy Autonomous Recommender Systems on Music Streaming Platforms“. (3) the Nuffield Foundation project – Me and My Big Data: Developing Citizens Data Literacies. (4) The UKRI project “COVID-19: Being alone together: developing fake news immunity“.
Between 2021-2023 I won a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship working with the UK’s Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee. From May 2024 I have been selected to be an Expert Member of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Technology Advisory Panel. I has been invited to be an expert advisor for several digital rights NGOs such as: Amnesty International Tech, UNESCO, Demos, Digital Poverty Alliance, Royal Society, and the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman (Forbrukerrådet). In addition, I am part of the editorial team of the open access journal Internet Policy Review.
In February 2020, I was invited to give evidence on Digital Literacy for the House of Lords Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. My insights were included in the final report: “Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust”. In July 2020, I was invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an expert on data literacy and disinformation to the first scientific discussion on infodemiology. My insights were included in the WHO’s report “Public health research agenda for managing infodemics”.
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On 7th May 2022 – I was interviewed for GLZ Radio talking about the latest article showing how location data of abortion clinics can be bought easily and the problems of the adtech industry and the broken consent mechanism.
On 12 April 2021 – I was interviewed for the Israeli television channel DemocratTV to talk about how Facebook engineers our political discourse, normalizes surveillance and harms our democracies.
On 3rd February 2021 I gave a book talk sponsored by several Canadian organizations: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series of the IGSF of McGill university (Thanks Alex Ketchum), the Algorithmic Media Observatory of Concordia University (Thanks Fenwick McKelvey) and Machine Agencies Ryerson University, and Western University (thanks Greg Elmer). The video with captions is below.
On 11 January 2021 I started my POST parliamentary academic fellowship, to work with the UK’s Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee on the project I proposed: “Digital literacies for a healthy democracy”.
On 19th November 2020 I talked in a great panel around “How should we regulate big tech?”, together with Darren Jones MP (Labour Party and Chair of the BEIS Select Committee) & Alvin Carpio (Facebook You Owe Us). This was part of WebRoots Democracy closing festival. Check out the video here ->
22 October 2020 – I gave a talk at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies about my new book Media Distortions, check out the video here -> here’s the video.
30 June – 16 July 2020 – I’ve been invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an expert on data literacy & disinformation to the first scientific discussion on infodemiology. Here is my testimonial on the experience.
11 Feb 2020 – I’ve been invited to give evidence on Digital Literacy for the House of Lords Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. Here’s the recording.
28 Feb 2020 – We are launching the Me & My Big Data survey “Understanding citizens data literacy: thinking, doing & participating with our data” in London.
April 2020 – I’ve been invited to work on a content moderation project with Tarleton Gillespie at the Microsoft Research Lab in New England, USA (postponed to the fall due to Coronavirus).
I’ve been elected as Communication Chair for the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).
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