Prof. dr. Annette Markham, Chair Professor of Media Literacy and Public Engagement (Utrecht University), will give an online guest lecture at the Centre for Digital Humanities on digital and media literacy.

More information on the topic will follow soon. You can already register for this online lecture at the bottom of this page.

Practical information

This online lecture will take place on Thursday, 8 May 2025, from 15.30 to 16.30 hours via Teams webinar. You will receive a Teams link before the lecture. Participation is free of charge.

About

Annette Markham is Chair Professor of Media Literacy and Public Engagement in the department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University. She holds a PhD in organizational theory (Purdue University, 1997), with special emphasis on interpretive qualitative methods. She has been researching the impact of digitalization on identity and organizing practices since 1995 and now holds specializations in the lived experience of human/machine interactions, impact of datafication and algorithmic logics on social practices, and critical approaches to digital and algorithmic identity. She also studies research methodologies to devise ethical models for speculative, mixed-method, ethnographic, and multi-entity research design. Methods specializations include guided digital autoethnography, critical pedagogy, arts-based interventions, citizen social science, digital and data literacy through critical pedagogy, and digital ethnography.

Annette co-founded and directed the international Masters degree program in Digital Living at Aarhus University from 2013-2020 and was co-director of Aarhus University’s Digital Living Research Centre. Annette holds honorary adjunct professor posts at Aarhus University (in Information Studies) and RMIT University (in Media & Communication).

Level

No prior knowledge of or experience with digital humanities will be required. The lecture will be in English.

For whom?

This online lecture is open to all who are interested in the topic of this lecture and the work of Prof. dr. Annette Markham.

Registration

Please complete the registration form below if you wish to sign up for this lecture. Register early to secure your place, as spots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you find yourself unable to attend after completing registration, we kindly request that you cancel your registration by sending an email to cdh@uu.nl, allowing us to offer the spot to another participant. Thank you for your cooperation.