Robin Mansell

Professor of New Media and the Internet at The London School of Economics and Political Science

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  • The London School of Economics and Political Science

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Biography

The London School of Economics and Political Science

Robin Mansell PhD (SFU Canada 1984), FAcSS, FBA, is Professor Emerita of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has training in several social science disciplines including psychology, social psychology, politics and economics and is a strong advocate of interdisciplinary research when it builds on the strengths of disciplinary inquiry.

Her research and teaching focus on media and communications regulation and policy, internet governance, privacy and surveillance, digital platforms, socio-technical features of data and information systems, and the social, political and economic impacts of innovation in digital networks and applications. Her current research addresses the political economy of ‘platformisation’ and ‘datafication’ and its consequences for society in diverse contexts around the world.

Robin has received the 2021 Outstanding Alumni Award for Academic Achievement from Simon Fraser University. She was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Fribourg in 2020 and was recipient of the C. Edwin Baker Awardfor the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy 2020 (ICA Communication Law & Policy and Philosophy, Theory and Critique Divisions).

Expertise Details

Media and Communications Regulation and Policy; Internet Governance; Privacy and Surveillance; Digital Platforms; Data and Information; Social; Political and Economic Impacts of Innovation and Digital Technology Applications

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