Karin is associate professor Media & Culture Studies and project lead Humanities at Data School at Utrecht University. She received her PhD from Utrecht University (NL) in 2014 on the concept ‘liveness’ in media studies. In 2014/2015 Karin was lecturer Television and Cross-Media at the University of Amsterdam. She returned to Utrecht University as assistant professor in 2015 and was visiting fellow at the London School of Economics in 2017 and 2018.

Her research contributes to the emerging field of Critical Data Studies, focusing on the impact of datafication and algorithmization on culture and society. Karin is author of the book The Future of Live (Polity Press, 2016). She is co-editor of the edited volumes The Datafied Society (AUP, 2017) and Situating Data (AUP, 2023) and the special issue “Big Data Histories” (2018) for TMG- Journal for Media History. She has published in outlets such as Big Data & Society, Social Media + Society, Television & New Media, Media, Culture & Society, M/C Journal and First Monday.

Current Projects

• 2022-4: Value-driven recommendations (co PI with Christine Bauer for DPG Media & AI Lab)
• 2022-3: Journalism & democracy: Corona reporting (co PI with Dennis Nguyen for Algemeen Dagblad & AI Lab)
• 2022-6: AI for journalistic inquiries in public debates with De Groene Amsterdammer (co-promotor of candidate Joris Veerbeek for De Groene & AI Lab)
  

Current (co-) supervised Ph.D. students

• Tim de Winkel (with Mirko Tobias Schäfer and José van Dijck)
• Joris Veerbeek (with Antal van den Bosch, Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Joris van Eijnatten)
• Anna Marieke Weerdmeester (with José van Dijck and Janneke Gerards)

Past Projects

• 2022: Data center imaginaries on Twitter (for Utrecht Data School)
• 2021: An exploration of search algorithms on employment websites and their effect on equal opportunity (for College for Human Rights)
• 2019: Public support and community binding of KRO NCRV in a digital age (co PI with Eggo Müller for KRO NCRV)