Tine Ustad Figenschou

Dr. Tine Ustad Figenschou is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests include Al Jazeera English, international satellite news, and the mediated migration debate. Figenschou has been an associated fellow at the Arab Media Centre, University of Westminster (United Kingdom) since 2008. Her work has been published in journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Journalism, International Journal of Communication and Global Media and Communication. Figenschou is currently working on the interdisciplinary, international research project Mediation of Migration (2011-2014). The project is exploring the processes that lead to news on migration and how the logics of the media affect Norwegian immigration policy, administrative practices and public opinion.

You can reach Tine Ustad Figenschou via email: tineuf@media.uio.no.  

Joseph Lorenzo Hall

Joseph Lorenzo Hall is a postdoctoral research fellow working under Helen Nissenbaum at New York University's department of Media, Culture and Communication. Hall received his Ph.D. in information systems from the Berkeley School of Information in 2008. His Ph.D. thesis used electronic voting as a critical case study in digital government transparency and his postdoctoral work immediately afterward developed techniques to increase the efficiency and usability of accountability mechanisms in electronic elections. His current work focuses on policy mechanisms that promote trustworthiness and transparency in information systems, as core functions of society and government become networked and computerized.

During 2011-2012, Hall is working with the HHS SHARPS team to investigate privacy and security policy implications of health information technology (HIT). Hall holds master's degrees in astrophysics and information systems from UC Berkeley and is a founding member of the National Science Foundation's ACCURE Center (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections). He has served as an expert on independent teams invited by the States of California, Ohio and Maryland to analyze legal, privacy, security, usability and economic aspects of voting systems.

Eva Horn

Eva Horn is a professor of German literature and culture at the University of Vienna.
Her research interests focus on the relations between literature, film and political theory. Recently, she has worked on the media of conspiracy in Weimar Republic film (especially Fritz Lang); swarm theory; and the logics of political secrecy. Her book "The Secret War: Espionage, Treason and Modern Fiction," a literary history of political secrecy in the twentieth century, will come out with Northwestern UP later this year. A recent paper on
"The Logics of Political Secrecy" came out in Theory, Culture and Society (vol. 28) in December of 2011.

Eva Horn will be a visiting scholar MCC between February and June 2012. She will be working on her current book "The Catastrophic Imaginary," which deals with catastrophic visions of the future in fictions from Romanticism to the present. In the modern age, the classical apocalyptic images are transformed into secular scenarios of political and social disaster. Literary texts from Lord Byron to H.W. Wells or Cormack McCarthy, as well as films from Roland Emmerich to Lars von Trier present cataclysmic events that touch on the very foundations of social life and political order. Horn’s interest is to reconstruct the biopolitical and epistemological subtexts in these fictions of catastrophe and the way in which these "futures" relate to current debates on ecology, the use and distribution of ressources, and social equality.

You can reach Eva Horn via email: eva.horn@univie.ac.at

Karina Horsti

Dr. Karina Horsti is an Academy of Finland postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism, University of Helsinki, Finland. She is a visiting scholar and adjunct instructor at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University for the academic year 2011-2012. She held the same position in 2009. Horsti’s research interests focus on qualitative and critical media studies in the contexts of migration, ethnic relations, and humanitarian action. Currently she examines how changing technology and journalism shape immigration debates in Europe. Her recent research project, which analyzed cultural diversity in media policies resulted a co-edited volume National Conversations that will be published by Intellect in 2012. Horsti’s work has appeared in journals such as International Journal of Cultural Studies and Communication, Culture & Critique.

You can reach Karina Horsti via email: kh1198@nyu.edu.

Andrew Selbst

Andrew Selbst is a Privacy Research Fellow at the Information Law Institute for 2011-2012. His interests lie at the intersection of media, technology, and civil liberties, including information privacy, telecom policy, media regulation, First Amendment, and the future of journalism. He graduated University of Michigan Law School, with honors, in May, where he was an Executive Editor of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and authored The Journalism Ratings Board: An Incentive Based Approach to Cable News Accountability, 44 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 467 (2011). Andrew also holds M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a S.B. in Electrical Engineering, and a S.B. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for several years designing circuits before law school. In addition to his research, Andrew writes for the social justice blog Coffee House Talks and he can be found on Twitter @aselbst.