Lovelace-Hodgkin Symposium 2026

Photini Vrikki is the Programme Director for the MA/MSc in Digital Humanities and Director of Research in the Department of Information Studies. Her work sits at the intersection of social and digital inequality, asking how power shapes data and how data, in turn, shapes us.

Over the past decade, her research focused on data infrastructures and politics, examining what it means to live inside digital economies that are rarely neutral and never inevitable. That work runs along three threads: the structural forces and ideologies underpinning data and creative economies; how platforms configure communities of experts, workers, and consumers; and the ways digital tools are mobilised to challenge racism, inequality, and oppression.

At the heart of all of it is a simple provocation: that the humanities have something urgent to say about technology, and that technology has something uncomfortable to reveal about us.