[1009] (CISR, St. Petersburg, Russia). She is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), and her PhD thesis focuses on life-in-common in a post-socialist city. She studies urban commons, grassroots initiatives, and practices of sharing, governing, and digitally mediating everyday realities in various kinds of neighborly relations and housing for several research projects.
Benjamin Cope is an active member of the Laboratory of Critical Urbanism at the European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania, where he teaches the Master’s Specialisation in Critical Urbanism, the Master’s Specialisation in Gender Studies and the BA Programme in Design. He is a co-editor of publications documenting collective research projects in Lithuanian cities: with Felix Ackermann and Miodrag Kuc, Mapping Vilnius: Transformations in Post-Socialist Spaces, and with Felix Ackermann and Siarhei Liubimau, Mapping Visaginas: Sources of Urbanity in a Former Mono-Functional Town (Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2016). He lives in Warsaw where he is a member of the Association “My” which engages in a variety of cross-cultural projects and organises events in urban spaces. He was also a member of the Belarusian band Nagual and the conductor of the vegetable orchestra Paprykalaba.
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 International Encyclopedia of Human Geography and is presently editor of the journal, Dialogues in Human Geography (and former editor of Social and Cultural Geography and Progress in Human Geography). He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.
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 Helsi