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Biography

Jason Pridmore is a Professor of Human Centric AI in Society with a focus on Emerging Technologies and Social Change. He is the co-director of the Community for Learning Innovation and the co-lead of the AI strategy working group at ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥ (EUR). He works in the Department of Media and Communication which is within the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication where he was the former Vice Dean of ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥. Jason is the coordinator of both , which will build a European Science Communication Competency Centre, and , an EU funded project piloting Human Centric Industry innovations. Jason is also the lead on several projects with his research team, including , , REINCARNATE, and he co-leads the project. Previously, Jason led the project, and was the Project Exploitation Manager and Data Security Manager on the project. He was the Principle Investigator in the Netherlands on the .

His research interests are focused primarily on practices of digital science communication, digital identification, the use of new/social media and consumer data as surveillance practices, and digital (cyber) security issues. He has written extensively on marketing practices and information exchange and participates in research focused on privacy, data ethics, mobile devices, policing practices, citizenship, branding and quantified self movements. Jason currently participates in an advisory capacity for a range of European Union Research projects and Dutch funded projects on new technologies, privacy, and security issues.

He is co-editor of the book published by Routledge press. Prior to joining the department, he was the Senior Researcher on the DigIDeas project based in Maastricht, the Netherlands. This project examined the social and ethical implications of digital identification, with his research focusing specifically on consumer identity and identification practices and the use of new media in marketing practice. Jason received his PhD from the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada, in 2008. Before moving to the Netherlands, he worked as a Post-Doctoral fellow as part of The New Transparency Project within the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University.