Dr. Dmitry Epstein (founding member)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Dmitry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). His research focuses on the intersection of information, technology, policy, and society.
Dr. Philipp K. Masur (founding member)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Philipp is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands). His research focuses on privacy and self-disclosure, social influence on social media, and communication and well-being.
Dr. Kelly Quinn (founding member)
University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)
Kelly is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago (USA). Her work focuses on new media and how they relate to diverse topics such as aging, social capital, friendship and privacy.
Dr. Carsten Wilhelm (founding member)
University of Haute-Alsace (France)
Carsten is Associate Professor in Information and Communication Sciences at the Center for Research on Economies, Societes, Arts and Technologies of the Université de Haute Alsace (France). His research focuses on the societal and cultural implications of digital media and communication practice and use, on the transcultural circulation of knowledge and the use of communication media in teaching and learning.
Dr. Lemi Baruh
University of Queensland (Australia)
Lemi Baruh is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland (Australia) and a Honorary Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Visual Arts, Koc University (Turkey). Lemi does research in Communication and Media, focusing on surveillance and social psychology of privacy and disclosure.
Jošt Bartol
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Jošt Bartol is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Social Sciences a the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). His work is concerned with conceptualizing and measuring privacy concerns.
Dr. Aysenur Dal
Bilkent University in Ankara (Turkey)
Aysenur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Design at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, and currently a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs during my 2024–2025 sabbatical. Her research explores the social-psychological drivers of online political behavior, focusing on how people interpret and respond to activism-related risks in different contexts. She uses quantitative methods, including surveys, experiments, and social network analysis.
Prof. Dr. Leyla Dogruel
University of Erfurt (Germany)
Leyla is Professor of Communication Studies with a focus on Social Communication at the University of Erfurt. Her research explores how digitalization and automation are reshaping societal and individual communication. Before joining Erfurt, she held a junior professorship in Media Systems and Media Performance at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and earned her PhD on media innovation at Freie Universität Berlin in 2012. Her work addresses questions related to media economics, regulation, media use, and effects. She is also involved in research on the future of local journalism.
Prof. Dr. Sven Jöckel
University of Erfurt (Germany)
Sven Jöckel is Professor of Children’s and Youth Media at the University of Erfurt, a position he has held since 2013. He previously served as Junior Professor of Digital Media at the same university and was a research associate at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Research in Hanover. He earned his PhD in 2008 with a dissertation on the success factors of digital games. His research focuses on the use, effects, and economics of digital media—particularly games—as well as empirical research on children’s and youth media, mobile privacy, and the intersection of media and morality.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Lutz
BI Norwegian Business School (Norway)
Christoph Lutz is a Professor at the Department of Communication and Culture and at the Nordic Centre for Internet and Society, BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo). His research interests lie in the area of digital technologies and include social media, online participation, privacy and digital inequalities. In addition, Christoph is interested in digital labor, the sharing economy and social robots.
Dr. Yannic Meier
University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Yannic is a Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). His research interests include a) privacy, self-disclosure, data protection, b) digital inequalities, c) science skepticism and trust in science and d) incidental exposure to science (mis)information.
Dr. Renwen Zhang
National University of Singapore
Renwen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore (NUS), with a joint appointment at The N.1 Institute for Health. Her research examines the role of digital technologies in mediating and affecting interpersonal communication and emotional well-being.