Department of Management, Society and Communication

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.

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup has published four books: 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.

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.