About keynote speaker

Taina Bucher is a professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo and a principal investigator of HumAIn. Her work explores how algorithms, platforms, and infrastructures shape everyday life, with a particular focus on issues of visibility, power, and user agency. She completed her PhD in Media Studies in 2012 and has since published widely on topics related to algorithmic culture and digital media. Her book If…Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2018) examines how algorithmic systems influence communication and governance. In Facebook (Polity Press, 2021), she analyses the platform’s role in structuring social interaction and digital publics.