Dr Athina Karatzogianni is a Senior Lecturer in New Media and Political Communication, Director of Media Programmes at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull. Athina has also contributed extensively on theorising cyberconflict, and exploring the potential of ICTs and network forms oforganization for social movements, resistance and open knowledge production. Recent research focused on agency and resistance in transnational migrant and digital diaspora networks (for the MIG@NET EU FP7) and towards the research monograph The Real, The Virtual, and the Imaginary State with Palgrave.

 Athina has authored The Politics of Cyberconflict (2006); Power, Conflict and Resistance: Social Movements, Networks and Hierarchies co-author Andrew Robinson (2010); edited Violence and War in Culture and the Media: Five Disciplinary Perspectives (2012); Cyber Conflict and Global Politics (2009) [all with Routledge]; and Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change, co-edited with Adi Kuntsman (2012, Palgrave).