Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester.

She is currently Principal Investigator for the H2020 DigiGen The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation, leading work on ICT and the transformation of civic participation (2019-2022). Her most recent book is Platform Economics: Rhetoric and Reality the “Sharing Economy”, co-authored with Cristiano Codagnone and Jacob Matthews (Emerald, 2018).

Keywords: digital activism, social media, cybersecurity