Biographies

Louise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Durham, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on aspects of geopolitics, technology and security. She is particularly interested in how contemporary forms of data and algorithmic analysis are changing the pursuit of state security and the idea of society. Louise is appointed to the UK independent body responsible for the ethics of biometric and data-driven technologies. She is Co-Editor of the Journal Progress in Human Geography. Her work will inspire the sub-plenary by problematizing the relation between biometric technologies, borders and security.
 
Mikkel Flyverbom is Professor of Communication and Digital Transformations at the Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His research on digital transformations, data, internet governance, and tech companies has been published in leading international journals, as well as a number of books. Mikkel is a member of the Danish government’s Data Ethics Council and Digitalization Council, and the Chairman of the Expert Group on Tech Giants. Grounded in Science and Technology Studies, his contribution to this sub-plenary will rely on his work on global digital infrastructures as a phenomenon of urgency for organization scholars’ investigation.
 
Daniel Neyland is Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. For over 20 years he has worked on collaborative sociotechnical research projects, often with computer scientists and engineers to come up with new ways of working and thinking. From studies of the everyday life of algorithms through to research on markets for digital data, he challenges the taken for granted assumptions regarding: the relationship between problems and solutions; what it means to govern and distribute relations of accountability and responsibility; and how we ought to go about the process of doing research. Building on his STS-inspired work with surveillance technologies, Daniel’s contribution to this sub-plenary will lift the everyday practices of surveillance and their organizational embeddedness.
 
Damian O’Doherty is Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. His work on the ‘loungification of society’ was centered on airports as places and non-places at the borders of the nation-states and sites of political and aesthetic work of organization. Damian works as an ethnographer of organization which is informed by anthropological and philosophical discipline drawing inspiration from contemporary work in the social studies of science and technology and a counter-modern or ‘anti-tradition’ of intellectual inquiry that draws a line from Nietzsche into Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida.
 
Elena Raviola is the Söderberg Professor in Design Management at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her main research interest concerns the role of digital technologies in organizing professional work at the intersection between institutional theory and science and technology studies. Since 2022, Elena is leading the Nordic project DiNoBord (www.dinobord.eu), exploring the tension between openness and security at Nordic borders, especially in relation to digital surveillance practices.