Dr Arne Hintz

MA (Warwick), PhD (Hamburg)

2026

• Hintz, A. 2026. Governing AI and the democratisation of governance [Commentary]. Dialogues on Digital Society 2 (1), pp.27-30. (10.1177/29768640251335676)

2025

• Dencik, L. et al. 2025. Collectivity in data governance and data justice. Information, Communication and Society 28 (6), pp.943-950. (10.1080/1369118x.2025.2478096)

2024

• Crooks, R. et al., 2024. People’s practices in the face of data power. In: Jarke, J. and Bates, J. eds. Dialogues in Data Power. Bristol: Bristol University Press. , pp.80-102. (10.56687/9781529238327-007)
• Hintz, A. 2024. AI, big data and bias: governing datafication through a data justice lens. In: Puppis, M. , Mansell, R. and Van den Buick, H. eds. Handbook of Media and Communication Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. , pp.526-537. (10.4337/9781800887206.00051)
• Padovani, C. et al., 2024. Global communication governance at the crossroads. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series Palgrave MacMillan. (10.1007/978-3-031-29616-1)

2023

• Padovani, C. et al., 2023. Introduction: Global communication governance at the crossroads. In: Padovani, C. et al., Global Communication Governance at the Crossroads. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series Springer. , pp.1-17. (10.1007/978-3-031-29616-1_1)
• Hintz, A. et al. 2023. Civic participation in the datafied society: Introduction. International Journal of Communication 17 , pp.3549-3561.

2022

• Trere, E. , Hintz, A. and Owen, N. 2022. Journalism and data justice: Critically reporting datafication. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Routledge. , pp.179-187. (10.4324/9781003174790-22)
• Dencik, L. et al. 2022. Data justice. Sage Publications.
• Hintz, A. et al. 2022. Civic participation in the datafied society: Towards democratic auditing?. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: Data Justice Lab. Available at: https://datajusticelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CivicParticipation_DataJusticeLab_Report2022.pdf.

2021

• Warne, H. , Dencik, L. and Hintz, A. 2021. Advancing civic participation in algorithmic decision-making: a guidebook for the public sector. Manual. Data Justice Lab.

2020

• Wahl-Jorgensen, K. et al. 2020. Journalism, citizenship and surveillance society. Routledge.

2019

• Dencik, L. et al. 2019. The 'golden view': data-driven governance in the scoring society. Internet Policy Review 8 (2)(10.14763/2019.2.1413)
• Allan, S. and Hintz, A. 2019. Citizen journalism and participation. In: Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Hanitzsch, T. eds. The Handbook of Journalism Studies. Taylor & Francis. , pp.435-451.
• Hintz, A. 2019. Leaks. In: Vos, T. P. and Hanusch, F. eds. The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. John Wiley & Sons(10.1002/9781118841570.iejs0261)
• Dencik, L. , Hintz, A. and Cable, J. 2019. Towards 'data justice': Bridging anti-surveillance and social justice activism.. In: Bigo, D. , Isin, E. F. and Ruppert, E. eds. Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights. Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology Routledge. , pp.167-186.
• Hintz, A. 2019. Policy hacking: Opening up the code of media and communications regulation. In: Hunsinger, J. and Schrock, A. eds. Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context. Digital Formations New York: Peter Lang. , pp.97-114.
• Dencik, L. et al. 2019. Exploring data justice: conceptions, applications and directions. Information, Communication and Society 22 (7), pp.873-881.

2018

• Hintz, A. , Dencik, L. and Wahl-Jorgensen, K. 2018. Digital citizenship in a datafied society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Dencik, L. et al. 2018. Data scores as Governance: Investigating uses of citizen scoring in public services project report. Project Report.Cardiff University: Open Society Foundations.
• Wahl-Jorgensen, K. , Williams, A. and Hintz, A. 2018. Introduction: Changing relationships between news organizations and audiences. Digital Journalism 6 (8), pp.945-950. (10.1080/21670811.2018.1505439)
• Hintz, A. and Milan, S. 2018. Authoritarian practices in the digital age| 'Through a glass, darkly': Everyday acts of authoritarianism in the liberal West. International Journal of Communication 12 , pp.3939-3959.
• Hintz, A. 2018. Policy activism: Advocating, protesting and hacking media regulation. In: Meikle, G. ed. The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism. Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions London and New York: Routledge. , pp.319-328.

2017

• Dencik, L. and Hintz, A. 2017. Civil society in an age of surveillance: beyond techno-legal solutionism?. Civil Society Futures
• Dencik, L. , Hintz, A. and Carey, Z. 2017. Prediction, preemption and limits to dissent: social media and big data uses for policing protests in the UK. New Media & Society 20 (4), pp.1433-1450. (10.1177/1461444817697722)
• Wahl-Jorgensen, K. et al. 2017. Journalism, citizenship and surveillance - introduction. Digital Journalism 5 (3), pp.256-261. (10.1080/21670811.2016.1266134)
• Hintz, A. , Dencik, L. and Wahl-Jorgensen, K. 2017. Digital citizenship and surveillance society - introduction. International Journal of Communication 11 , pp.731-739.
• Hintz, A. and Ian, B. 2017. Enabling digital citizenship? The reshaping of surveillance policy after Snowden. International Journal of Communication 11 , pp.782-801.
• Hintz, A. 2017. Between enabling and restricting dissent: the two faces of social media. In: Reilly, P. , Anastasia Veneti, A. and Dimitrinka Atanasova, D. eds. Politics, Protest, Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Information School, University of Sheffield

2016

• Hintz, A. and Dencik, L. 2016. Expanding state power in times of surveillance realism: How the UK got a 'world-leading' surveillance law. OpenDemocracy
• Dencik, L. , Hintz, A. and Cable, J. 2016. Towards data justice? The ambiguity of anti-surveillance resistance in political activism. Big Data and Society 3 (2), pp.1-12. (10.1177/2053951716679678)
• Hintz, A. , Dencik, L. and Wahl-Jorgensen, K. 2016. Surveillance in a digital age. In: Franklin, B. and Eldridge II, S. eds. The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. Abingdon: Routledge. , pp.579-588.
• Hintz, A. and Dencik, L. 2016. The politics of surveillance policy: UK regulatory dynamics after Snowden. Internet Policy Review 5 (3), pp.1-16. (10.14763/2016.3.424)
• Hintz, A. 2016. Whistleblowers and leak activists face powerful elites in struggle to control information. The Conversation 2016 (Apr 4), pp.-.
• Hintz, A. 2016. Media at the margins? After the mainstreaming of participatory media practices. Journal of Alternative and Community Media 1 (1), pp.21-23. (10.1386/joacm_00010_1)
• Hintz, A. 2016. Enabling future journalisms: policy challenges and advocacy initiatives in the digital age. In: Gasher, M. et al., Journalism in Crisis: Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada. Toronto University Press. , pp.146-162.
• Hintz, A. 2016. Policy hacking: citizen-based policymaking and media reform. In: Freedman, D. et al., Strategies for Media Reform: International Perspectives. New York: Fordham University Press. , pp.223-238.
• Hintz, A. 2016. Restricting digital sites of dissent: commercial social media and free expression. Critical Discourse Studies 13 (3), pp.325-340. (10.1080/17405904.2016.1141695)

2015

• Bakir, V. et al., 2015. Public feeling on privacy, security and surveillance: a report by DATA‐PSST and DCSS. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff University and Bangor University. Available at: https://dcssproject.net/public-feeling/.
• Dencik, L. et al. 2015. Managing 'threats': uses of social media for policing domestic extremism and disorder in the UK. Project Report.[Online].Media Democracy Fund, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations. Available at: http://www.dcssproject.net/files/2015/12/Managing-Threats-Project-Report.pdf.
• Dencik, L. and Hintz, A. 2015. The post-Snowden surveillance policy turmoil. [Online].London: London School of Economics and Political Science. Available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2015/06/17/the-post-snowden-surveillance-policy-turmoil/.
• Hintz, A. 2015. Internet freedoms and restrictions: the policy environment for online alternative media. In: Atton, C. ed. The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. , pp.235-246.
• Hintz, A. 2015. Social media censorship, privatized regulation, and new restrictions to protest and dissent. In: Dencik, L. and Leistert, O. eds. Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation. London: Rowman & Littlefield. , pp.109-126.

2014

• Hintz, A. 2014. Outsourcing surveillance - privatising policy: communications regulation by commercial intermediaries. Birkbeck Law Review 2 (2), pp.349-367.
• Dencik, L. and Hintz, A. 2014. Behind the scenes at the start of the Snowden era - Citizenfour is crucial viewing. The Conversation 2014 (24 Oct)
• Hintz, A. 2014. Independent media center. In: Harvey, K. ed. Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. SAGE Publications. , pp.653+.
• Hintz, A. 2014. Towards community and non-profit media legislation in South America: challenging media power through citizen participation. In: Martens, C. , Vivares, E. and McChesney, R. W. eds. The International Political Economy of Communication: Media and Power in South America. International Political Economy Series Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. , pp.46-62.
• Hintz, A. and Milan, S. 2014. At the margins of internet governance: grassroots tech groups and communication policy. In: Cao, J. and Mosco, V. eds. Critical Studies in Communication and Society. Shanghai Translation Publishing House. , pp.181-195.

2013

• Brevini, B. , Hintz, A. and McCurdy, P. eds. 2013. Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the future of communications, journalism and society. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. (10.1057/9781137275745)
• Hintz, A. 2013. Dimensions of modern freedom of expression: WikiLeaks, policy hacking, and digital freedoms. In: Hintz, A. , Benedetta, B. and Patrick, M. eds. Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. , pp.146-165.
• Hintz, A. 2013. Media activism and advocacy: Policy interventions in a global context. In: Howley, K. ed. Media Interventions. New York, NY: Peter Lang. , pp.284-301.
• Milan, S. and Hintz, A. 2013. Networked collective action and the institutionalized policy debate: Bringing cyberactivism to the policy arena?. Policy & Internet 5 (1), pp.7-26. (10.1002/poi3.20)
• Wahl-Jorgensen, K. et al. 2013. Breadth of opinion in BBC output. Project Report.[Online].BBC Trust. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/editorial_standards/impartiality/breadth_opinion.html.

2012

• Hintz, A. 2012. Challenges to freedom of expression in the digital world: Lessons from Wikileaks and the Arab Spring. ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies 5 (1), pp.83-105.
• Hintz, A. 2012. Challenging the digital gatekeepers: international policy initiatives for free expression. Journal of Information Policy 2012 (2), pp.128-150.

2011

• Hintz, A. 2011. From media niche to policy spotlight: mapping community media policy in Latin America. Canadian Journal of Communication 36 (1), pp.147-159.
• Hintz, A. and Milan, S. 2011. User rights for the internet age: Communications policy according to 'Netizens'. In: Mansell, R. and Raboy, M. eds. The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy. Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. , pp.230-241. (10.1002/9781444395433.ch14)

2010

• Hallett, L. and Hintz, A. 2010. Digital broadcasting - Challenges and opportunities for European community radio broadcasters. Telematics and Informatics 27 (2), pp.151-161. (10.1016/j.tele.2009.06.005)
• Hintz, A. and Coyer, K. 2010. Developing the 'Third Sector': Community media policies in Europe. In: Klimkiewicz, B. ed. Media Freedom and Pluralism: Media Policy Challenges in the Enlarged Europe. Budapest: CEU Press. , pp.275-298.
• Hintz, A. and Milan, S. 2010. Grassroots tech activism and media policy. In: Downing, J. D. H. ed. Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media. New York: SAGE Publications. , pp.217-221.
• Hintz, A. and Milan, S. 2010. Media activists and the communication policy process. In: Downing, J. D. H. ed. Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media. New York: SAGE Publications. , pp.317-319.
• Hintz, A. and Milan, S. 2010. Social science is police science: Researching grassroots activism. International Journal of Communication 4 , pp.837-844.

2009

• Hintz, A. 2009. At the margins of internet governance: grassroots tech groups and communication policy. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 5 (1/2), pp.23-38.
• Hintz, A. 2009. Civil society media and global governance: Intervening into the World Summit on the Information Society. Medien & Politik Vol. 37Münster: LIT Verlag.
• Hintz, A. and Hadl, G. 2009. Framing our media for transnational policy: the World Summit on the information society and beyond. In: Kidd, D. , Rodriguez, C. and Stein, L. eds. Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere, Volume 2. New York: Hampton Press. , pp.103-121.

2007

• Hintz, A. and Milan, S. 2007. Towards a new vision for communication governance? Civil society media at the World Social Forum and the World Summit on the information society. Communication for Development and Social Change 1 (1), pp.1-23.

2006

• Hintz, A. 2006. Civil society media at the WSIS: a new actor in global communication governance?. In: Cammaerts, B. and Carpentier, N. eds. Reclaiming the Media: Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles. Bristol: Intellect. , pp.243-264.