Victoria Andelsman Alvarez

Victoria Andelsman Alvarez is a Postdoc in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen, where she contributes to the ERC- and IRFD-funded Datafied Living project (2021-2025). Her research examines digital parenting practices, infrastructural underpinnings of datafication, and care ethics within Denmark's welfare state context.

Her academic background includes:

• Ph.D. in Communication, University of Copenhagen (2024)
• Research Master's in New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam
• BA in Communication, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina

Dr. Andelsman Alvarez investigates how digital technologies reshape parenting experiences and care infrastructures. Her work analyzes mobile communication between parents and daycare centers, moral dimensions of digital media use, commodification of digital learning, and datafication's impact on welfare systems. Adopting a care-minded framework, she explores concepts like digital resignation and infrastructural dependencies in everyday life, with particular attention to temporal and spatial reconfigurations of parenting practices.

Analysis of her 2022-2024 publications reveals consistent focus on datafication's societal implications across multiple domains. Her research spans digital parenting (4 publications), educational systems (3 publications), welfare state transformations (2 publications), and intimate knowledge production (1 publication). Key methodological approaches include qualitative case studies of Danish parenting practices, critical analysis of digital platform infrastructures, and theoretical development of care ethics frameworks for datafication contexts.

As part of the Datafied Living project, she collaborates with researchers across disciplines to examine how datafication reshapes everyday life within welfare state contexts. Her work bridges communication studies, sociology, and ethics to provide nuanced understandings of technology's role in contemporary social practices, particularly focusing on care relationships and infrastructural dependencies.