Karin van Es

Karin van Es is an assistant professor of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and coordinator of the Datafied Society research platform. Her current research interests revolve around tool criticism in data-driven research and public values in the digital age. Karin is author of the book The Future of Live (Polity Press, 2016). She is co-editor of the volume The Datafied Society (Amsterdam University Press, 2017) and more recently the special issue "Big Data Histories" (2018) for TMG- Journal for Media History . She has published in outlets such as Television and New Media, Media, Culture and Society, M/C Journal and First Monday. Her publications cover critical data studies, social media, and the concept liveness.

Karin received her PhD from Utrecht University (NL) in 2014 on the subject of ‘liveness’ in media studies. In 2014/2015 Karin was lecturer Television and Cross-Media at the University of Amsterdam. She returned to Utrecht University as assistant professor in 2015 and was visiting fellow at the London School of Economics in 2017 and 2018.

Companies

• Assistant Professor Media & Culture Studies Universiteit Utrecht (2015)
• Management team & coordinator Datafied Society Utrecht Data School (2014)
• Visiting Fellow The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2017 — 2017)
• Lecturer Television and Cross-media Culture Universiteit van Amsterdam (2014 — 2015)

Education

• PhD Media Studies Utrecht University (2010 — 2014)
• Exchange student UC San Diego (2009 — 2009)
• Exchange student University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006 — 2006)