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Dr. Alison Powell

Assistant Professor, LSE

London

Alison Powell is Assistant Professor in Media and Communications at LSE and Programme Director of the MSc in Media and Communication (Data & Society). Her research examines how people’s values influence the way technology is built, and how discourses, practices and governance structures are produced in relation to new technological systems. Her most recent collaborative funded research is VIRT-EU, a Horizon 2020 project examining ethics in practice among Internet of Things developer communities. Along with Nick Couldry, she recently published "Big Data From the Bottom Up" in Big Data and Society. Follow Alison @abpowell.

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