Miren Gutiérrez holds a Ph.D. in Communication and is a researcher at the University of Deusto. She has published over 60 articles, chapters, monographs, and scientific-technical reports. She is also the Principal Investigator of the ARES research program (analysis of antifeminist resistance), financed by the State Research Agency (AEI). She is also a Research Associate at ODI in London (UK), generating scientific reports based on big data. The central theme of her research is data and algorithms as tools for data activism and as a space for political and social debate. Gutiérrez is the author of the book Data Activism and Social Change, London: Palgrave-Macmillan. She has been certified as a full professor by Ikerbasque. She is on the editorial board of Frontiers in Communication (ESCI) and an AEI evaluator. She is a professor in the degree programs in Communication, International Relations, and Law, and in the postgraduate programs of the Erasmus Mundus master’s in international Humanitarian Action and the Doctorate in Communication for Human Development at Deusto. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Navarra (Spain) and the University of Tartu (Estonia).

Antonia Moreno holds a PhD in Journalism specializing in Science, Technology, and Health from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She has two degrees, one in Optics and Optometry (University of Murcia, 2000) and another in Journalism (UPV/EHU, 2004). She developed her Postdoctorate at the Ikerbasque Foundation (2015), and since 2010, she has worked in different universities in Colombia and Spain as a professor of the Bachelor’s Degree in Communication. She is currently linked to the Communication Research Group of the University of Deusto as a postdoctoral researcher.

Mayo Fuster Morell is faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. She is the lead researcher of Dimmons Research Group (2021 SGR 01383). She is the Chair of the COST ACTION P-WILL on intersectional feminist applied to platform economy (2022-2026), a pan-European network of more than 50 countries and 150 members hosted by Public Policy Research Center, Belgrade. She was the lead researcher of the European project PLUS on platform work and welfare state, and DECODE Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem and at the IGOP’s European Project: P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production in the Future Internet. In 2010, she concluded her Ph.D. thesis on the governance of common-based peer production at the European University Institute in Florence, and she has numerous publications in the field.

Diego Casado Mansilla is an Associate Researcher in the MORElab/DEUSTEK research group and professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Deusto. He received his doctorate from that same university in 2016. The research topic of his thesis was the use of persuasive technologies to generate pro-environmental behavioral changes. His research interests focus on interaction technologies between everyday objects augmented with technology and people, persuasion and motivation strategies for change through technology, behavioral change, citizen science, and how to generate hybrid intelligence spaces between machines and people with social purposes. Casado-Mansilla has more than 50 scientific publications on interaction topics in the field of sustainability and the Internet of Things (IoT), of which 19 are JCR and three book chapters (WoS h-index: 6, Scopus h-index: 10, Google h-index: 13). He has worked on 7 H2020 projects of which he is the principal investigator (PI) in two of them, he has been PI in two projects of the national research plan RETOS I D i and he has participated in more than ten national and regional projects in collaboration with companies. Finally, Casado-Mansilla is a member of several scientific committees at IEEE and ACM.

Diego ALVAREZ holds a Ph.D. in Computer science and a master’s in development policies and Processes from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where he is a tenured Professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication, Documentation, and Art History. He has made communication his scientific study object, particularly interested in Media pluralism and diversity and the relationship between media and democracy. Álvarez has participated in several multidisciplinary research projects focused on the role of media in empowerment processes to facilitate the participation of citizens in processes of social change that pursue the creation of a more just society. He has worked on developing an open standard for electoral programs (Open Manifesto Project). Among the works in the field of political activism, he has participated in the development of the Collaborative Representation proposal, a prospective study on political participation and collaboration from the perspective of Big Data within the framework of Open Government, an analysis of the contribution to empowerment processes of the electoral programs of the political parties. He has collaborated with the Open Government team of the Provincial Council of Valencia and has provided collaborative input to its Open Government Strategy. As a civic hacker, he has set up several initiatives to drive the development and use of civic technologies to hold public representatives accountable. In collaboration with Prof. David Pardo, run analizo.info, a social entrepreneurship initiative created to facilitate citizen participation in information analysis, seeking to improve society in the political, social, economic, and environmental areas.

Stefania Milan. Professor of Critical Data Studies at the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Media Studies. Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, and Research Associate, Chair “Artificial Intelligence & Democracy” at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute. Investigates the interplay between technology and society, and the possibilities of self-organization, emancipation, and autonomy that digital infrastructure opens. A social scientist by formation, she values interdisciplinary research, including critical data studies, political sociology, and science and technology studies. 

Annabel Martín carries out her teaching career and her research on contemporary Spanish culture from Dartmouth College in the US as a full professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and in the Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Programs. She was also the creator and first director of the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth College. Her research work is part of the field of feminist cultural studies dedicated to the analysis of nationalism, historical memory, and terrorist violence and reconciliation in the Basque context from a gender perspective. He has published extensively in these areas as well as on gender and tourism in developing Spain, on the role of the humanities in the neoliberal world or on issues of gender and educational models. She is the author of the book La gramática de la felicidad: Relecturas franquistas y posmodernas del melodrama (2005), coeditor of Tras las huellas del terrorismo en Euskadi: Justicia Restaurativa, Convivencia, Reconciliación (2019) and prepares a manuscript, Rest in Peace: The Basque Political contours of the arts, on the role that the arts play in the processes of reconciliation and democratic deepening in collaboration with various Basque artists, mediators, and victims. She is also part of several international research groups, including CITUR on film and tourism at the Universitat de València and CinemAGEnder (film and age studies). She is part of the advisory board of the SERENE NETWORK group (EU Horizon 2020) on gender and equality, is a member of the advisory board of Feminism (s), and in 2019 held the Bernardo Atxaga Chair of the CUNY Graduate Center of the Instituto Etxepare (Basque Government).

Cristina Ortíz Ceberio has a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of the Basque Country (San Sebastián) and a doctorate in Romance Language and Literature from the University of Cincinnati (Ohio, United States). She is currently a professor and head of the Department of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she teaches interdisciplinary courses on contemporary culture and courses on Spanish language and literature written in Spanish. Her most recent publications include the monographic volume Ellas Cuentan: Artistic representations of violence in the Basque Country from a gender perspective (Madrid: Dykinson, 2020) co-authored with Dr. María Pilar Rodríguez from the University of Deusto, which has been translated into English as Affective Landscapes: Representation of Terrorism and Violence by Basque Female Authors (New York, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021). She is the author of numerous articles on Spanish and Latin American literature and cinema and studies on nation and nationalism from the perspective of gender studies. 2015 her professional work was awarded the Patricia W. Baer Honorary Professorship.

María Pilar Rodríguez is a tenured professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Deusto and has been the Director of the Doctorate Programme in Leisure, Culture, and Communication for Human Development from 2014 until 2023. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University (Cambridge, USA). Until 2002 she was a professor at Columbia University (New York, USA). She is the Principal Investigator of the research team in Communication, recognized by the Basque Government with the maximum category A. She has around one hundred publications on literature, cinema, culture, and gender studies. His latest books include those entitled Cine vasco: Una historia política y cultural (IB Tauris, 2015, co-written with Rob Stone; Basque Cinema: A political and cultural history (Social Communication, 2015) and Ellas cuentan: Representaciones artísticas de la violencia en el País Vasco desde la perspectiva de género (Dykinson, 2020, co-written with Cristina Ortiz); Affective Landscapes: Representations of Terrorism and Violence by Basque Female Authors (Peter Lang, 2021).

María Jesús Pando Canteli has a doctorate in Language and Literature and is a tenured professor at the University of Deusto, where she has taught classes on analysis and evaluation of media messages and currently on comparative literature and gender studies in undergraduate and doctorate and cultural studies in the Erasmus master’s degree. Mundus Euroculture. Fulbright postdoctoral fellow in 2008-2009, she has actively participated in various international (Aristos Campus Mundus on gender, discourse, and communication) and national (MINECO 2016-2019) projects. She is currently participating in the European project H-2020 Gearing Roles on the implementation of equality plans. She has published articles in indexed journals and book chapters on gender and media and discourse analysis from a gender perspective and on female agency in the literary and cultural scene of 17th-century Europe. She is a regular evaluator of scientific journals on gender, discourse, and society and has a valid six-year term recognized by the CNAI. She has been vice dean of postgraduate studies and attached to the Vice Chancellor for International Relations at the University of Deusto. She currently coordinates the Modern Languages ​​degree at said university.