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'''Nanna Bonde Thylstrup''' is Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media at Copenhagen Business School. Her research focuses on the politics and ethics of data and machine learning and the interplay between digital developments and cultural, social and political change.
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'''Nanna Bonde Thylstrup''' is Associate Professor on the Promotion Programme in Modern and Digital Culture at the University of Copenhagen. She is PI of [https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/daloss/ Data Loss: The Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies] (DALOSS) funded by the European Research Council. The project is premised on the idea that datafication is inherently conditioned by loss, and that this loss can also be generative. Rather than framing loss retroactively as something that can be ‘fixed, patched or recovered’, then, DALOSS  investigates loss as actively constituted through social, political, and aesthetic relations.  
  
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup works across several projects and is Principal Investigator on the project AI REUSE funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (2020-2023). She is currently also involved in three other research projects, Datafied Living funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark, Platform Intelligence in News funded by Innovation Fund Denmark and Follow Me: The Influence of Danish Digital Media Creators funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark. Previously, she worked on the project Uncertain Archives: Adapting Cultural Theories of the Archive to Understand the Potentials and Risks of Big Data funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark and the Velux-funded project The Past's Future: Digital Transformations and Cultural Heritage Institutions.
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In addition, she leads the [https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/digital-culture/ Digital Culture Research Cluster] fostering interdisciplinary research in digital culture. She received her PhD (in Modern Culture) from University of Copenhagen and MA (in Modern Culture) from the University of Copenhagen. She has been a visiting fellow at Duke University, Cornell University and Columbia University.  
  
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup has published four books: ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20862 The Politics of Mass Digitization]'' (MIT Press, 2019), ''The Uncertain Image'' (co-edited with Ulrik Ekman, Daniela Agostinho and Kristin Veel, Routledge, 2019), ''Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data'' (co-edited with Daniela Agostinho, Catherine D’Ignazio, Annie Ring and Kristin Veel, MIT Press, 2021), and ''(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War and Contemporary Art'' (co-edited with Daniela Agostinho, Solveig Gade and Kristin Veel, Sternberg Press, 2021). In addition she has published several special issues, including “Knowledge Production” in ''Big Data & Society'' (co-edited with Mikkel Flyverbom and Rasmus Helles, 2019) and “Pragmatic engagements with and from within the Internet” in ''First Monday'' (co-edited with Mareile Kaufmann and Anna Leander, 2020). She has published widely on the politics of data, machine learning cultures and digital governance.
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Her research and teaching focuses on the politics and ethics of data, machine learning and digital infrastructures. She is particularly interested in how digitization and algorithmic processes are changing how we encounter, govern and practice knowledge infrastructures, and the political and ethical dimensions of these changes. Thylstrup is the author and editor of several books, including ''Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for the Age of Big Data'' (MIT Press, 2021), ''(W)ARCHIVES: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art'' (Sternberg Press 2021), and ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20862 The Politics of Mass Digitization]'' (MIT Press, 2019) (a "watershed work", JASIST). Thylstrup has moreover edited several special issues, including Big Data & Society, First Monday, and Philosophy of Photography and she has published in a range of journals including ''Journal of Cultural Economy, Digital Journalism, Media Culture & Society, Ephemera'', and ''Internet Policy Review''. She is also editorial board member of a new open access series on Artificial Intelligence in Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press).
  
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen and has previously worked at Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen. She has held Visiting Fellowships at Duke University, Colombia University, Cornell University, and Stanford University. Prior to that she worked in publishing. [https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-management-society-and-communication/staff/nbtmsc (2022)]
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Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is a regular commentator on issues related to emerging technologies in Danish and international media, including including El País and The New York Times. She has consulted for a number of cultural heritage organisations, governments and NGOs on issues related to digitization and emerging technologies, including the Danish National Archives, The Danish Royal Library, Bodleian Libraries and DanChurchAid.
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Nanna is PI, co-PI and member of several ongoing research projects funded by European Research Council, Independent Research Fund Denmark, Velux Foundation and Innovation Fund Denmark, including AI REUSE, Follow Me (FoMe),Personalized Intelligence in News, and Datafied Living. [https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/nanna-bonde-thylstrup-2 (2025)]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 12:41, 20 April 2025

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is Associate Professor on the Promotion Programme in Modern and Digital Culture at the University of Copenhagen. She is PI of Data Loss: The Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies (DALOSS) funded by the European Research Council. The project is premised on the idea that datafication is inherently conditioned by loss, and that this loss can also be generative. Rather than framing loss retroactively as something that can be ‘fixed, patched or recovered’, then, DALOSS investigates loss as actively constituted through social, political, and aesthetic relations.

In addition, she leads the Digital Culture Research Cluster fostering interdisciplinary research in digital culture. She received her PhD (in Modern Culture) from University of Copenhagen and MA (in Modern Culture) from the University of Copenhagen. She has been a visiting fellow at Duke University, Cornell University and Columbia University.

Her research and teaching focuses on the politics and ethics of data, machine learning and digital infrastructures. She is particularly interested in how digitization and algorithmic processes are changing how we encounter, govern and practice knowledge infrastructures, and the political and ethical dimensions of these changes. Thylstrup is the author and editor of several books, including Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for the Age of Big Data (MIT Press, 2021), (W)ARCHIVES: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press 2021), and The Politics of Mass Digitization (MIT Press, 2019) (a "watershed work", JASIST). Thylstrup has moreover edited several special issues, including Big Data & Society, First Monday, and Philosophy of Photography and she has published in a range of journals including Journal of Cultural Economy, Digital Journalism, Media Culture & Society, Ephemera, and Internet Policy Review. She is also editorial board member of a new open access series on Artificial Intelligence in Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press).

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is a regular commentator on issues related to emerging technologies in Danish and international media, including including El País and The New York Times. She has consulted for a number of cultural heritage organisations, governments and NGOs on issues related to digitization and emerging technologies, including the Danish National Archives, The Danish Royal Library, Bodleian Libraries and DanChurchAid.

Nanna is PI, co-PI and member of several ongoing research projects funded by European Research Council, Independent Research Fund Denmark, Velux Foundation and Innovation Fund Denmark, including AI REUSE, Follow Me (FoMe),Personalized Intelligence in News, and Datafied Living. (2025)

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