Annette Markham is Chair Professor of Critical Future Literacies and Public Engagement at Utrecht University and Adjunct Professor of Digital Ethnography at RMIT University.
Markham is a pioneering researcher of digital culture and has been researching the impact of digitalization on identity and organizing practices since 1995. Annette holds specializations in the lived experience of human-machine communication, impact of datafication and AI logics on social practices, and critical approaches to digital and algorithmic identity. She is one of the world’s top experts in ethics for digital social research and is well known for her longstanding work to develop innovative methods for mixed-method and ethnographic research in digitally-saturated contexts.
Annette created and directed the international Future Making Research Consortium in 2016, a collaboratory to bring together scholars, artists, and activists, particularly early career researchers, to study the intersection of digital technology, ways of being in the world, and future possible meanings, practices, and social structures. She regularly hosts post-graduate workshops, an annual Skagen Institute Conference on Transgressive Methods, PhD summer schools, and special interest masterclasses.
Annette’s writing can be found in a range of international journals, books, and edited collections. More information and links to publications can be found at https://annettemarkham.com/
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.