Dr Arne Hintz
MA (Warwick), PhD (Hamburg)

Reader

: Media commentator

Arne Hintz is a Reader at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), Director of Postgraduate Research, and Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab.

His research focuses on the practices and conditions of digital citizenship, combining work on media activism, communications policy, and datafication. His most current research explores avenues for enhanced citizen participation in the governance of data and AI. He has led several collaborative and multi-year research projects, including Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks" (2014-16), Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring Society (2018-20), and Democratising the Datafied Society (2021-23).

His publications include the co-authored and co-edited books Data Justice (Sage, 2022), Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society (Polity, 2019), Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism & Society (Palgrave, 2013) and Civil Society Media and Global Governance (Lit, 2009), several journal special issues, and a large number of journal articles as well as chapters in prominent edited volumes and handbooks.

He is Co-Chair of the Global Media Policy Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and he has worked as expert and advisor with advocacy initiatives such as the Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) and the Open Rights Group (ORG), and UN processes such as the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

Arne Hintz has worked at several academic and media institutions before joining JOMEC in October 2012. He completed an MA in International Political Economy at Warwick University, UK, and a PhD in Political Science in Hamburg, Germany. He then worked as Program Director of the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University in Montreal. In addition to his academic background, he has experience in journalism, both newspaper and online, and in public relations. As a media activist, he has volunteered with community radios and helped set up online projects such as Indymedia.

Date
Type

2023

Padovani, C., Wavre, V., Hintz, A., Goggin, G. and Iosifidis, P. 2023. Introduction: Global communication governance at the crossroads. In: Padovani, C. et al. eds. 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., Dencik, L., Redden, J. and Trere, E. 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., Hintz, A., Redden, J. and Trere, E. 2022. Data justice. Sage Publications.

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. eds. 2020. Journalism, citizenship and surveillance society. Routledge.

2019

Dencik, L., Redden, J., Hintz, A. and Warne, H. 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., Hintz, A., Redden, J. and Trere, E. 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., Hintz, A., Redden, J. and Warne, H. 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., Hintz, A., Dencik, L. and Bennett, L. 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. Policy hacking: citizen-based policymaking and media reform. In: Freedman, D. et al. eds. Strategies for Media Reform: International Perspectives. New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 223-238.
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. Restricting digital sites of dissent: commercial social media and free expression. Critical Discourse Studies 13(3), pp. 325-340. (10.1080/17405904.2016.1141695)
Hintz, A. 2016. Enabling future journalisms: policy challenges and advocacy initiatives in the digital age. In: Gasher, M. et al. eds. Journalism in Crisis: Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada. Toronto University Press, pp. 146-162.

2015

Bakir, V., Cable, J., Dencik, L., Hintz, A. and McStay, A. 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., Hintz, A., Carey, Z. and Pandya, H. 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
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.
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.

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. 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.
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.

2013

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)
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.
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
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.
Brevini, B., Hintz, A. and McCurdy, P. eds. 2013. Beyond WikiLeaks: implications for the future of communications, journalism and society. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

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. 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. 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. Social science is police science: Researching grassroots activism. International Journal of Communication 4, pp. 837-844.

2009

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.
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. 37. Münster: LIT Verlag.

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.

Through his research, Arne Hintz tries to advance our understanding of digital citizenship and citizen agency, as well as contemporary challenges to democracy, in the context of the increasing datafication of many areas of society. This involves work on communication governance, civil society, and data justice; the processes that generate change in these fields; and transnational dynamics and global contexts. He is particularly interested in questions of participation - in media production, in policy development, and in wider societal change.

He co-chairs the Data Justice Lab and has been involved with many of the Lab's collaborative projects, incl. Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring Society (2018-20), Data Policies: Regulatory Approaches to Data-driven Platforms (2017-19) and Data Scores as Governance: Investigating Uses of Citizen Scoring (2017-18).

Previously he was Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks" (2014-16) and project manager of the international collaborative project ‘Mapping Global Media Policy’ (2009-12). Other collaborative research funded by European institutions included projects on media pluralism, digital radio, data retention and surveillance, young people and internet use, and media development.

Research interests

Digital Citizenship
Internet governance, media and communications policy
Digital rights, surveillance and freedom of expression in a datafied society
Alternative, community and citizen media
Civil society, activism, advocacy and participation

Director of Postgraduate Research

Weekly PhD workshop series

Teaching

Understanding Digital Media (MA)
Datafied Society (MA)
Internet Governance (BA)

Supervision

PhD supervision on topics of datafication, online activism, internet governance, e-democracy, digital citizenship.

Career overview

2019-present: Reader, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK
2015-2019: Senior Lecturer, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK
2012-2015: Lecturer, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK
2009-2012: Research Fellow, McGill University, Canada
2007-2009: Program Director, Center for Media and Communication Studies, Central European University, Hungary

Education and qualifications

2008: PhD (Political Science), University of Hamburg, Germany
1999: MA (International Political Economy), Warwick University, UK

Professional memberships

International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (Chair of Global Media Policy Working Group)
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
International Communication Association (ICA)
OURMedia, a network of community/alternative media researchers and practitioners

Contact Details

HintzA@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 76281
Two Central Square, Room 1.38, Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS