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Cornelia Brantner is a Professor at Karlstad University's Department of Geography, Media and Communication, and coordinates the Centre for Geomedia Studies. She has held previous roles including visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, temporary Professorships at Bremen University and TU Dresden, and research positions at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on geomedia, visual communication, digital publics, and algorithmic accountability. Current projects include leading the Swedish Research Council-funded initiative on digital infrastructure sovereignty in welfare states.
Education and career highlights include a background in communication studies, with expertise spanning media ethics, digital governance, and spatial media analysis. Her work interrogates intersections of online/offline spaces, visibility dynamics, and inequality in digitized environments.
Research trends in her publications emphasize algorithmic accountability, AI's role in media ecosystems, and data sovereignty. Key themes include analyzing geopolitical implications of digital infrastructure, tracking visual discourse around climate change via social media, and exploring ethical dimensions of automation and social media algorithms. Her grants and leadership roles reflect a focus on bridging theoretical and applied media studies.
Her lab/center, the Centre for Geomedia Studies, advances interdisciplinary research into spatially-oriented digital media practices. Notable collaborations include international teams analyzing Twitter's sociotechnical ecosystems and cross-linguistic political information retrieval systems.
