Dr Lina Dencik is Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK where she serves as Director for the MA Journalism, Media and Communication and as Co-Director of the newly established Data Justice Lab. She has published widely in the area of media developments and social and political change, with a particular focus on globalisation and resistance. She is currently researching issues relating to surveillance, social justice, and the politics of data and is in the process of writing the book Digital Citizenship in Datafied Society: from active to monitored citizens for Polity Press (with Arne Hintz and Karin Wahl-Joergensen).