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Dr. Annette Markham is Professor of Media Literacies and Public Engagement at Utrecht University focused on frameworks and tools for generating more ethical digital futures through publically engaged critical pedagogy. Markham is a long-time digital ethnographer, studying the lived experience of digitalization and datafication. As a methodologist trained in humanities, social science, and feminist traditions, she is well known for developing frameworks for mindful, ethical, and creative approaches to studying cultural phenomena in digitally-saturated, datafied, and AI-embedded social contexts. Markham also specializes in speculative design thinking techniques to foster self-guided social science among citizens. As founder and PI of the Futures+ Literacies + Methods Lab (FLL), Markham seeks to use participatory engagement practices and community engaged learning to build capacity around tools for ethical and critical AI literacies, especially to explore the power, potential, and ethical dilemmas of AI in everyday internet and digital media usage.

Markham brings a wealth of interdisciplinary experience to her teaching, research, and leadership. Prior to joining Utrecht University, Markham held Professorships in communication studies (RMIT University, 2020-2023), informatics and gender studies (Umeä University, 2012-2014), information studies and digital design (Aarhus University, 2013-2020). Following her 2015 fellowship at Microsoft Research Labs in New England, she consulted with Microsoft's head offices about internal digital ethics policies. She has also held appointments at the University of the US Virgin Islands (Dept head, Humanities, 2004-2007), University of Illinois -Chicago (Asst Prof, Communication, 2000-2004), Virginia Tech University (Asst Prof, Communication and Center for Teaching & Learning 1997-2000), and the Purdue University Graduate School of Business (Instructor, Management Communication 1996).

Markham is well-regarded for designing and facilitating PhD Summer Schools and short interdisciplinary intensive training courses in the areas of digital ethics, digital identity, and research methods, across disciplines such as anthropology, architecture, arts management, communication studies, data science, design, digital culture, digtal humanities, education, gender studies, informatics, information studies, linguistics, media studies, social psychology, and social science.

Markham founded the International Future Making Research Consortium, co-developed and co-directed the Digital Living Research Commons at Aarhus University, directed the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, and founded and directed the Skagen Institute, which has hosted fellows since 2014 for an annual conference onTransgressive Methods. She holds an honorary adjunct professorship at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. 

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