Dr Elinor Carmi
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Dr. Elinor Carmi is a Senior Lecturer in Data Politics and Social Justice at the Sociology and Criminology Department at City St. George's, University of London, UK. Dr. Carmi is a digital rights advocate, feminist, researcher and journalist who has been working, writing and teaching on data politics, data literacies, feminist approaches to media and data, data justice and internet governance. Dr. Elinor Carmi has a track record of successful research funding and high-profile collaborations. She is the Co-Director of the MSc Data, Policy and Society. In the past five years she has successfully won grants from UKRI, ESRC, and Nuffield Foundation together with colleagues from academia and NGOs:
January 2025-January 2026 - CO-I on the Google Academy funded project "HumAIne: Building Society-Centred Responsible AI Open Educational Resources".
May 2024-Present - Trustee of the Media and Information Literacy Alliance.
May 2024-Present - Expert Member of the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Technology Advisory Panel.
May-June 2024 – Open Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute working on the project “The Human Data Good Practice”.
2021-2024 - Co-I on the Nuffield Foundation project "Developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard".
2023-2024 - PI on the City University funded project “What mobilizes people to go against big-tech”.
2021-2023 - POST Parliamentary Academic Fellowship working with the UK's Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee on the project I proposed: "Digital literacies for a healthy democracy".
2022-2023 - Co-I on the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems hub project "Trustworthy Autonomous Recommender Systems on Music Streaming Platforms".
2021-2022 - Co-I on the project Re-Liv-E (Events Research Project), funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), UK Government.
2021-2022 - Co-I on The UKRI project "COVID-19: Being alone together: developing fake news immunity".
2018-2021 - Lead PDRA on the Nuffield Foundation project “Me and My Big Data – Developing Citizens’ Data Literacies”.
Dr. Carmi's work contributes to emerging debates in academia, policy, health organisations and digital activism. In February 2020, Dr. Carmi was invited to give evidence on Digital Literacy for the House of Lords Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. Her insights were included in the final report: “Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust”. In July 2020, Dr. Carmi was invited by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an expert on data literacy and disinformation to the first scientific discussion on infodemiology. Her insights were included in the WHO’s report “Public health research agenda for managing infodemics”.
Between 2021-2023 she won a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship working with the UK's Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee, and from 2024 she has been selected to be an Expert Member of the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Technology Advisory Panel. She has been invited to be an expert advisor for several digital rights NGOs such as: Amnesty International Tech, UNESCO, Demos, Digital Poverty Alliance, Royal Society, and the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman (Forbrukerrådet). In addition, Dr. Carmi is an academic editor on the open access journal Internet Policy Review. Dr. Carmi is the co-director of the new MSc - Data, Policy and Society - https://www.city.ac.uk/prospective-students/courses/postgraduate/data-policy-and-society.
Qualifications
- PhD, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom, September 2012 - November 2017
Employment
- Co-Director of MSc Data, Policy and Society, City, University of London, United Kingdom, October 2025 - present
- Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research, School of Policy and Global Affairs, United Kingdom, August 2024 - present
- Senior Lecturer in Data Politics & Social Justice, City, University of London, United Kingdom, August 2023 - present
- Lecturer in Data Politics, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2021 - August 2023
- Postdoc Research Associate in Digital Media & Society, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, September 2018 - August 2021
- Teaching Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2017 - August 2018
- Visiting Lecturer, London South Bank University, United Kingdom, September 2016 - August 2017
- Associate Lecturer, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom, September 2015 - August 2017
- Associate Lecturer, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom, January 2014 - August 2016
Fellowships
- Parliamentary Academic Fellowship, The UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, January 2021 - present
Languages
English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review), German (can understand spoken), Hebrew (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review) and Spanish; Castilian (can understand spoken)
Research students
2ndsupervisor
- Liv Owens, Research Student
Publications
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Books (4)
- Yates, S. and Carmi, E. (Eds.), (2024). Digital Inclusion. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783031289293.
- Carmi, E. (2020). Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media. New York: Peter Lang Incorporated. ISBN 1433166917.
- Gehl, R.W. (2018). Weaving the Dark Web. The MIT Press.
- Carmi, E. (2013). TranceMission: The Psytrance Culture in Israel 1989-1999. Israel: Resling.
Chapters (17)
- Carmi, E. and Nakou, P. (2026). Data citizenship as literacies to address digital resignation. Advancing the Study of Privacy Cynicism, Apathy and Resignation in the Digital Society (pp. 204-220). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035353231.
- Yates, S. and Carmi, E. (2024). Introduction. Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities (pp. 1-10).
- In Schirrmacher, B. and Mousavi, N. (Eds.), (2024). Truth Claims Across Media. In Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783031420634.
- Yates, S. and Carmi, E. (2024). Introduction. Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities (pp. 1-10). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783031289293.
- Yates, S. and Carmi, E. (2024). Developing and Delivering and Data Literacy. Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities (pp. 249-273). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783031289293.
- Musi, E., O'Halloran, K.L., Carmi, E., Humann, M., Jin, M., Yates, S.... Pal, G. (2023). Mapping Polylogical Discourse to Understand (Dis)Information Negotiation. The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation (pp. 412-425). Routledge.
- Carmi, E., Lockley, E. and Yates, S. (2023). Inclusive digital focus groups – lessons from working with citizens with limited digital literacies. In Skopek, J. (Ed.), Research Handbook of Digital Sociology (pp. 161-178). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781789906752.
- Yates, S. and Carmi, E. (2023). Citizens’ Networks of Digital and Data Literacy. The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation (pp. 191-205). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783031119750.
- Yates, S. and Carmi, E. (2022). Developing citizens data literacy: A short guide. London, UK: Nuffield Foundation.
- Carmi, E. (2022). Don't Be Antisocial: The Politics of the “Anti-Social” in “Social” Media. In Rosen, D. (Ed.), The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media (pp. 38-52). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780367767518.
- Carmi, E. (2021). Deviant Media: Thinking Beyond Noise to Understand It. In Groth Krog, S. and Mansell, J. (Eds.), Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines (pp. 49-55). Sound Environment Centre, University of Lund, Sweden. ISBN 9789198711707.
- Yates, S., Jones, G., Dutton, W. and Carmi, E. (2020). ESRC Review: Governance and Security. In Yates, S. and Rice, R. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Digital Technology and Society (pp. 605-627). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Yates, S.J., Townsend, L., Whitty, M., Rice, R.E. and Carmi, E. (2020). ESRC Review. In Yates, S.J. and Rice, R.E. (Eds.), (pp. 55-78). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190932596.
- Yates, S.J., Ling, R., Robinson, L., Brooks, C., Joinson, A., Whitty, M.... Carmi, E. (2020). ESRC Review. In Yates, S.J. and Rice, R.E. (Eds.), (pp. 219-249). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190932596.
- Yates, S.J., Hepburn, P., Rice, R.E., Wessels, B. and Carmi, E. (2020). ESRC Review. In Yates, S.J. and Rice, R.E. (Eds.), (pp. 321-343). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190932596.
- Yates, S.J., Robson, L., Rice, R.E. and Carmi, E. (2020). ESRC Review. In Yates, S.J. and Rice, R.E. (Eds.), (pp. 499-525). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190932596.
- Yates, S.J., Jones, G., Dutton, W.H. and Carmi, E. (2020). ESCR Review. In Yates, S.J. and Rice, R.E. (Eds.), (pp. 603-627). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190932596.
Internet publications (10)
- Yates, S. and Carmi, E.(2021).Don’t know how your data is used, or how to protect it? You’re not alone – but you can improve your data literacy.
- Carmi, E. and Ben-Meir, S.(2021)."Through which glasses do you want to examine Facebook?" (in Hebrew).
- Carmi, E.(2021).Nick Clegg and Silicon Valley’s myth of the empowered user.
- Carmi, E.(2021).'It's machine learning, you wouldn't understand': How Facebook engineers our minds (In Hebrew).
- Carmi, E.(2021)."It’s not you, Juan, it’s us”: How Facebook takes over our experience.
- Carmi, E.(2020).The Organic Myth: There’s no type of content that is natural to social media.
- Carmi, E.(2020).With Giphy's purchase Facebook continues to crumble democracies across the world (in Hebrew).
- Carmi, E.(2019).We don't need no education? Informing the misinformed.
- Carmi, E.(2018).Do you agree? What #MeToo can teach us about digital consent.
- Carmi, E.(2018).It’s personal, isn’t it? What personalization mean for internet research methods.
Journal articles (23)
- Ben-David, A. and Carmi, E. (2025). Dark Cycles: Social Engineering and Political Chatbots in Netanyahu’s 2019 Election Campaigns. International Journal of Communication, 19, pp. 592-616
- Carmi, E. and Nakou, P. (2025). Building data citizenship and learning to resist in the datafied society. Learning, Media and Technology pp. 1-14. doi:10.1080/17439884.2025.2505553
- Kotliar, D.M. and Carmi, E. (2024). Keeping Pegasus on the wing: legitimizing cyber espionage. Information, Communication & Society, 27(8), pp. 1499-1529. doi:10.1080/1369118x.2023.2245873
- Burnside, G., Cheyne, C.P., Leeming, G., Humann, M., Darby, A., Green, M.A.... Buchan, I.E. (2024). COVID-19 risk mitigation in reopening mass cultural events: population-based observational study for the UK Events Research Programme in Liverpool City Region. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 117(1), pp. 11-23. doi:10.1177/01410768231182389
- Carmi, E. and Yates, S. (2023). Data Citizenship: Data Literacies to Challenge Power Imbalance Between Society and “Big Tech”. International Journal of Communication, 17, pp. 3619-3637
- Musi, E., Carmi, E., Reed, C., Yates, S. and O’Halloran, K. (2023). Developing Misinformation Immunity: How to Reason-Check Fallacious News in a Human–Computer Interaction Environment. Social Media + Society, 9(1). doi:10.1177/20563051221150407
- Birdsall, C. and Carmi, E. (2022). Feminist avenues for listening in: amplifying silenced histories of media and communication. Women's History Review, 31(4), pp. 542-560. doi:10.1080/09612025.2021.1944345
- Musi, E., Aloumpi, M., Carmi, E., Yates, S. and O’Halloran, K. (2022). Developing Fake News Immunity: Fallacies as Misinformation Triggers During the Pandemic. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 12(3), pp. e202217-e202217. doi:10.30935/ojcmt/12083
- Carmi, E. (2021). A feminist Critique to digital consent. Seminar.net, 17(2). doi:10.7577/seminar.4291
- Gillespie, T., Aufderheide, P., Carmi, E., Gerrard, Y., Gorwa, R., Matamoros-Fernández, A.... Myers West, S. (2020). Expanding the debate about content moderation: Scholarly research agendas for the coming policy debates. Internet Policy Review, 9(4). doi:10.14763/2020.4.1512
- Carmi, E. (2020). Rhythmedia: A Study of Facebook Immune System. Theory, Culture & Society, 37(5), pp. 119-138. doi:10.1177/0263276420917466
- Yates, S.J., Carmi, E., Lockley, E., Pawluczuk, A., French, T. and Vincent, S. (2020). Who are the limited users of digital systems and media? An examination of U.K. evidence. First Monday. doi:10.5210/fm.v25i7.10847
- Carmi, E., Yates, S.J., Lockley, E. and Pawluczuk, A. (2020). Data citizenship: rethinking data literacy in the age of disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation. Internet Policy Review, 9(2). doi:10.14763/2020.2.1481
- Carmi, E. and Yates, S.J. (2020). What do digital inclusion and data literacy mean today? Internet Policy Review, 9(2). doi:10.14763/2020.2.1474
- Carmi, E. (2019). The hidden listeners: regulating the line from telephone operators to content moderators. International Journal of Communication, 13, pp. 440-458
- Carmi, E. (2019). Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P by Robert Gehl (review). Information and Culture: A Journal of History, 54(2), pp. 245-247
- Sinnreich, A. and Carmi, E. (2019). Sonic Publics| Introduction and Audio Transcript. International Journal of Communication, 13, pp. 359-382
- Sinnreich, A. and Carmi, E. (2019). Introduction and Audio Transcript. International Journal of Communication, 13, pp. 359-382
- Sinnreich, A. and Carmi, E. (2019). Introduction and audio transcript. International Journal of Communication, 13, pp. 359-382
- Carmi, E. (2017). Review: Cookies – More than Meets the Eye. Theory, Culture & Society, 34(7-8), pp. 277-281. doi:10.1177/0263276417736367
- Carmi, E. (2017). Regulating behaviours on the European Union internet, the case of spam versus cookies. International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 31(3), pp. 289-307. doi:10.1080/13600869.2017.1304616
- Carmi, E. (2017). It’s a Question of Trust: Halt and Catch Fire’s Third-Season Review. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 39(4), pp. 10-11. doi:10.1353/ahc.2017.0038
- Carmi, E. (2015). Taming Noisy Women. Media History, 21(3), pp. 313-327. doi:10.1080/13688804.2015.1045468
Reports (7)
- Yates, S., Singleton, A., Polizzi, G., D’Arcy, J., Harris, R., Blackwell, C.... Sheppard, P. (2024). The Minimum Digital Living Standard - Overview 2024. Liverpool, UK: University of Liverpool.
- Yates, S., Hill, K., Blackwell, C., Davis, A., Padley, M., Stone, E.... Barrera, P. (2024). A Minimum Digital Living Standard for Households with Children - Overall Findings Report. Liverpool, UK: University of Liverpool.
- Carmi, E. and Nakou, P. (2023). What Mobilises People Against Big-Tech? London, UK: City, University of London.
- Yates, S., Carmi, E., Lockley, E., Wessels, B. and Pawluczuk, A. (2021). Me and My Big Data: Understanding Citizens Data Literacies - Final report. Liverpool, UK: Nuffield Foundation.
- Abad, N., Ahmed, N., Amponsa-Achiano, K., Azlan, A., Arcos, R., Ayodele, J.... Zhou, Y. (2021). WHO Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organisation. ISBN 9789240019515.
- Pawluczuk, A., Yates, S., Carmi, E., Lockley, E. and Wessels, B. (2020). Data citizenship framework: exploring citizens’ data literacy through data thinking, data doing and data participation..
- Yates, S., Carmi, E., Pawluczuk, A., Wessels, B., Lockley, E. and Gangneux, J. (2020). Understanding citizens data literacy: thinking, doing & participating with our data..