Welcome to ThinkMacro. I am Dmitry Epstein, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Under the broad umbrella of information, technology, policy, and society I study Internet and information technology governance along the dimensions of regulation, design, and use. Here you can find more information about my current research, publications, students, and some randomly updated musings.
UPDATES:
January 2024:
- Rotem Medzini and I wrote a book chapter presenting a polycentric analysis of formal and informal privacy governance arrangements. It is published as part of a really interesting and timely open access book on global digital data governance.
- Philipp Masur, Kelly Quinn, Carsten Wilhelm, Lemi Baruh, Christoph Lutz, and I updated our preprint describing a proposal for a comparative privacy research framework.
February 2024:
- I contributed a short piece to a discussion on digital communication during COVID at the IJOC. In it, I reflect on privacy repercussions of the rapid adoption of digital technologies during pandemic.
- Nik John and I presented an overview of our privacy studies to the faculty of the HUJI School of Education. We reflected on what we learned studying privacy considerations in the rapid transition to emergency remote teaching during COVID in Estonia, France, Germany, and Israel (based on this published and two other, currently under review, papers).
May 2024:
- Rotem Medzini and I will be presenting our work at the annual privacy workshop at TAU (Hebrew CFP). We will talk about our comparative analysis of privacy framing in post Cambridge Analytica parliamentary hearings in the US and the EU.