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Arne Hintz  MA (Warwick), PhD (Hamburg)

Dr Arne Hintz

MA (Warwick), PhD (Hamburg)

Reader

School of Journalism, Media and Culture

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

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 the practices and conditions of digital citizenship, combining work on media activism, communications policy, and datafication. His most current research explores avenues for enhanced citizen participation in the governance of data and AI. He has led several collaborative and multi-year research projects, including Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks" (2014-16), Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring Society (2018-20), and Democratising the Datafied Society (2021-23).

His publications include the co-authored and co-edited books 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 is Co-Chair of the Global Media Policy Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and he has worked as expert and advisor with advocacy initiatives such as the Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) and the Open Rights Group (ORG), and UN processes such as the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

Arne Hintz has worked at several academic and media institutions before joining JOMEC in October 2012. He completed an MA in International Political Economy at Warwick University, UK, and a PhD in Political Science in Hamburg, Germany. He then worked as Program Director of the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University in Montreal. In addition to his academic background, he has experience in journalism, both newspaper and online, and in public relations. As a media activist, he has volunteered with community radios and helped set up online projects such as Indymedia.

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Research

Through his research, Arne Hintz tries to advance our understanding of digital citizenship and citizen agency, as well as 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 been involved with many of the Lab's collaborative projects, incl. 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
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Internet governance, media and communications policy
  • Digital rights, surveillance and freedom of expression in a datafied society
  • Alternative, community and citizen media
  • 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

Professional memberships

  • International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (Chair of Global Media Policy Working Group)
  • European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
  • Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
  • International Communication Association (ICA)
  • OURMedia, a network of community/alternative media researchers and practitioners