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Amanda Lagerkvist is a Professor at Uppsala University's Department of Informatics and Media, and a founder of Existential Media Studies. She leads the Uppsala Informatics and Media Hub for Digital Existence and the research program BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds (2020-2024) within WASP-HS.
Her work intersects existential philosophy with digital culture, focusing on themes like disability, selfhood, datafication, and AI imaginaries. She has authored key works including Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation (OUP, 2022) and Media and Memory in New Shanghai (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Recent publications (2020-2025) analyze existential ethics in AI, biometric vulnerabilities, and digital environmental data. Her 15 most recent articles address topics like AI as existential media, digital afterlife ethics, and limit situations in digital culture, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach combining media studies, philosophy, and ethics.
Scientific Awards:
- Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2013)
Research Grants and Collaborations: Currently heading the RJ project Dismedia (2023-2025) and participating in the national At the End of the World programme (2023-2028). She collaborates on INTIMATE AI (2023-2026) and hosts the Assistive AI, Disability and Norms of Being Human sabbatical project (2023). She co-leads the The Mediated Planet (2020-2025) with KTH.
