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| Name | Annalisa Pelizza |
| Academic title(s) | Dr. |
| Institute | University of Twente |
| Department | Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STePS) |
| Function | Associate professor |
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| Short biography |
Normal 21 false NL /* Style Definitions */ Annalisa Pelizza is associate professor in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Twente (NL). She received her PhD in Information Society from the University of Milan Bicocca, and a MA in Media and Communication Studies from the University of Bologna (cum laude). She also worked a project manager and ethnographer with governmental agencies and engineering companies, developing large-scale IT infrastructures.
Annalisa Pelizza works at the intersections of science and technology studies (STS), communication science, and political theory. Her broad research interests are governance by information infrastructures; performativity of data circulation; computational methods; interactive digital art, especially in urban environments; sociology of translation and semiotics as research methodologies. She has been interested in how information infrastructures bring new (individual and organized) actors into existence, endow technical actors with new political powers, reshuffle the modern order of governance.
Her newest work looks at the transnational information infrastructure for migrant registration and identification – and how this helps to redraw the boundaries between citizens and aliens, Europe and Member States, Euclidean and networked conceptualizations of space. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant “Processing Citizenship: Digital registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory and Europe” (2017-2022). The project aims to develop a history of the present that accounts for contemporary materially-embedded practices of registration of migrants at European Hotspots as activities of governance transformation.
Annalisa’s ideas have usually been sustained by excellence-oriented programs, at the European (i.e., Marie Curie and European Research Council), as well as national (e.g., visiting fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, Chancellor’s Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh) levels. She acts as editorial board member and reviewer for various STS, policy and communication science journals, and is active member of international and national STS associations. |
| Recent publications |
800×600 Normal 21 false NL /* Style Definitions */ Pelizza, A. and Hoppe, R. (2018), ‘Birth of a Failure: Consequences of framing ICT projects for the centralization of inter-departmental relations’, Administration and Society, 50 (1): 101 – 130. Published online ahead of print on 07 August 2015. DOI: 10.1177/0095399715598343
800×600 Normal 21 false NL /* Style Definitions */ Pelizza, A. and Kuhlmann, S. (2017), ‘Mining Governance Mechanisms. Innovation policy, practice and theory facing algorithmic decision-making’, in Carayannis, E. G., Campbell, D. F., Efthymiopoulos, M. P. (Eds.), Handbook of Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy, and Cyber-Defense. (Berlin: Springer). Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06091-0_29-1 Pelizza, A. (2016), ‘Disciplining Change, Displacing Frictions. Two structural dimensions of digital circulation across land registry database integration’, Tecnoscienza. Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 7(2): 35-60. Available at http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/issue/view/36/showToc
Pelizza, A. (2016), ‘Developing the Vectorial Glance: Infrastructural inversion for the new agenda on governmental information systems’, Science, Technology and Human Values, 41(2): 298-321. DOI: 10.1177/0162243915597478 800×600 Normal 21 false NL /* Style Definitions */ Pelizza, A. (2016), ‘Translating Failures. The journey of framing government digitization as failing project’, Proceeding of the Proving Futures and Governing Uncertainties in Technosciences and Megaprojects, Paris 12-14 December. (Peer-reviewed, selected)
Pelizza, A. (2016), ‘Materializing Autarchy. Counter-evidence of vendor lock-in in the Dutch cadastral information systems’, Proceeding of the 2016 World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), RC32, Panel “Reshuffling Government”. Poznan (PL), 23-28 July. |
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