Author Archives: Dmitry

ICA 2017 Pre-Conference on challanges and promises of participatory policymaking

Brandie Nonnecke, Tanja Aitamurto, and I are organizing a pre-conference for the upcoming ICA 2017 meeting. The event will be dedicated to discussing communication practices, design considerations and socio-technical processes of online engagement in policy ideation, deliberation, and decision-making. There was a workshop on policy crowd-sourcing at CHI last year (co-organized by Tanja) and there is another… Read More »

Internet governance and STS – special issue of Internet Policy Review

It always amazes me how opportunities present themselves as you keep working on things that really interest you. About two years ago, I was invited to speak at an internet governance workshop hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), where I met Christian Katzenbach. Then, about a year ago, Francesca Musiani and… Read More »

(re)Introducing InfoNation

Since spring 2015 I have been teaching a senior seminar on information governance (COMM491). To make it more engaging, students are producing podcasts and writing op-eds in lieu of tradition research papers. There is still a lot of research work they engage with – as everything they produced has to be based on peer-reviewed research –… Read More »

Rebooted (again)

Hello world! Well, almost… I used to have a blog hosted on this domain since around 2009. I blogged quite a lot in grad school, but as life (both person and professional) got busier, blogging was one of the first things to suffer. In the past few years I was mostly posting updates about my… Read More »