Ali Karimi

Ali Karimi is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary. He is a scholar of critical information studies with a focus on surveillance, privacy, and data justice. He is also the director of a new research lab, Data Justice Research Centre.

Karimi received his PhD from McGill University, where his research was supported by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Before joining the University of Calgary, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
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Areas of Research

Critical data studies, Data justice , History of technology, Surveillance studies, Global communication

Supervising degrees

Communication and Media Studies - Doctoral: Accepting Inquiries
Communication and Media Studies - Masters: Accepting Inquiries