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The Stanhope Werkstätte is a policy laboratory that brings together diverse group of the brightest young researchers from a variety of universities to develop new understandings of the general problem of Internet technology and policy. The members are a small group of academics—researchers just finishing their postgraduate degree, postdoctoral researchers, or young faculty members in as diverse a mix as possible that bears on our mandate. The group includes expertise in computing, economics, media studies, anthropology, and public policy. All members are in residence in London at least part of the time that they are associated with the Werkstätte. They continue their own work, but also strive to cross-fertilize the research of their colleagues with their own experience, in time eventually producing new approaches and models for understanding the general problems of communication technology and public policy.
Gus Hosein is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where is he also pursuing a PhD. He is also a Senior Fellow at Privacy International, a London-based watchdog group. He researches policy discourses involving regulation and legislation of information technology, privacy and data protection, and the interaction with law enforcement powers and national security concerns.
Yasmin Ibrahim is a PhD student in media at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interest is the rise of internet as an alternative platform for political expression and activism in authoritative regimes in South East Asia.
Dawn Nafus is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Her dissertation is entitled "Time, Sociability and Post-Socialism in St. Petersburg." She is interested in the Internet as material culture, the anthropology of globalization, and cross-cultural perspectives on technology policy.
Christian Sandvig is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University. He recently received a PhD in Communication from Stanford University. He studies the tension between social, technical and legal mechanisms of control in communication technology.
Dieter Zinnbauer is a PhD candidate at the Development Studies Institute at London School of Economics and Fellow at the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs. His PhD is on Internet for political claim making in authoritarian settings and he has worked as consultant for various UN projects on issues of Internet governance and global development.
Eszter Hargittai is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) at Northwestern University. She recently completed her PhD in Sociology at Princeton University where she remains a research affiliate with the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and assistant director of the International Networks Archive. She is interested in the social and policy implications of communication and information technologies especially with respect to social inequality.
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