The workshop is organized by an interdisciplinary group of researchers covering topics such as computer and systems sciences, gender studies, media and communication studies, and social psychology.
Karin Hansson, Associate Professor in Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, has written extensively about technology-based participation from a design perspective. She is currently part of a research project on the development of #MeToo activism in Sweden, and part of the “Metadata culture” research group at Stockholm University that investigates and develops methods for obtaining qualified and extensive metadata in digitalized cultural heritage collections.
Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University. Her research interests include educational and collaborative learning technologies, sustainable HCI and Digital Civics.
Shaowen Bardzell is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Design in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research areas include feminist HCI, domestic computing, intimate interaction, affective computing and virtual worlds for collaboration.
Hillevi Ganetz, Professor in Gender Studies at Stockholm University, is a media researcher with a cultural studies perspective, focusing on gender and popular culture. Currently she is leading an interdisciplinary research project on feminist net activism at Stockholm University.
Malin Sveningsson, professor in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Gothenburg, is the author of several books and research articles in areas such as digital media, computer-mediated communication, virtual worlds, social interaction, popular culture, youth culture, gender and identity. She takes part in the interdisciplinary research project on feminist net activism at Stockholm University.
Maria Sandgren, PhD in psychology and registered psychologist, is a researcher in political psychology at Södertörn University. Her field of knowledge is primarily social psychology with a focus on political psychology. She is one of the researchers in the interdisciplinary research project on feminist net activism at Stockholm University.