Matti Pohjonen is a digital anthropologist who works at the intersection of anthropology, philosophy and AI. His diverse research interests have revolved around developing critical and practice-based research approaches and methodologies to understand digital cultures in especially comparative global contexts. This has included work on blogging cultures in India, developing new data analysis methods using interactive radio and SMS for researching hard-to-reach populations in East Africa, comparative research on online extreme speech globally, and work on the philosophical questions raised by the growing use of AI as a new form of knowledge production/politics. He received his MA and PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he also worked as a Lecturer in Global Digital Media (2018-2020) and Senior Teaching Fellow (2006-2009. He was also previously a Researcher for the Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCLMP), at the University of Oxford, a Research Fellow for the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Media and Communication (ZeMKI), at the University of Bremen and Senior Researcher for African's Voices Foundation, a research organisation launched out of University of Cambridge developing innovative research and data analysis methods for hard-to-reach populations in East Africa in the development sector. Matti currently work as a Senior Researcher for the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH), University of Helsinki, leading methodological development on data-enabled methods using internet and social media data. He has more than 10 years of experience in teaching related to teaching digital media and methods in a global context, including being awarded the SOAS Directors Teaching Prize for Innovative Teaching in 2020.