
Professor
Stefania
Milan
Italy / Netherlands
University of Amsterdam (UVA)
Stefania Milan (stefaniamilan.net) works at the intersection of political participation, digital technology, and governance, with a focus on infrastructure and political agency. She is Professor of Critical Data Studies at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Chair “AI and Democracy” at the Florence School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute) and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University). Stefania is the PI of the project DATAGOV–Governance by Data Infrastructure in the Post-Pandemic Democracy (2025–2030), funded by the European Research Council (ERC). From 2015 to 2021 she was the Principal Investigator of DATACTIVE and of Algorithms Exposed (ALEX), also funded by the ERC. In 2017, she co-founded the Big Data from the South Research Initiative, investigating the impact of datafication on communities at the margins. Stefania holds a PhD in Political and Social Science from the European University Institute. Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, she worked at the Citizen Lab (University of Toronto), Tilburg University, and the Central European University. Stefania is the author of Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013/2016), co-author of Media/Society (Sage, 2011), and co-editor of COVID-19 from the Margins (Institute of Network Cultures, 2021) and of Contentious Data in Movement (Routledge, 2024).