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Arne Hintz  MA (Warwick), PhD (Hamburg)

Dr Arne Hintz

MA (Warwick), PhD (Hamburg)

Reader, Director of Postgraduate Research

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Overview

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 questions of citizenship and democracy in increasingly datafied and automated societies. His most recent work explores avenues for enhanced citizen participation in the governance of data and AI. He has led several collaborative and multi-year research projects, including Democratising the Datafied Society (2021-23), Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring Society (2018-20), and Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks" (2014-16). 

His publications include the co-authored and co-edited books Global Communication Governance at the Crossroads (Palgrave, 2024), 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 has worked as expert and advisor with advocacy initiatives such as the Open Rights Group (ORG) and the Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE), and UN processes such as the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

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Research

Through his research, Arne Hintz tries to advance our understanding of digital citizenship, citizen agency, and 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 led or co-led many of the Lab's collaborative projects, incl.  Democratising the Datafied Society (2021-23), 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
  • Data and AI Justice
  • Democracy and AI
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Internet governance, media and communications policy
  • Digital rights, surveillance and freedom of expression in a datafied society
  • Civil society, activism, advocacy and participation

Teaching

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.

Biography

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

Visiting Fellow

  • 2021: Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary, Canada
  • 2017: Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada

Professional memberships

  • International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (former Chair of Global Media Policy Working Group and of Community Communications Section)
  • European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
  • Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
  • International Communication Association (ICA)

Supervisions

I am interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas: 

  • Data and AI Justice
  • Democracy and AI
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Digital & Data Activism
  • Internet Governance and Communications Policy

Contact Details

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