Dr Saskia Witteborn

Saskia Witteborn (PhD University of Washington) is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She specializes in critical technology studies and migration, with a focus on understanding the daily practices and lived experiences of transnational migrants. She has worked with various migrant groups in the United States, Europe, and East Asia and has contributed to theorizing the geopolitics of belonging, the datafication of forced migration, technology and affect, data privacy, and socio-technological imaginaries of migration management. She is currently exploring Web3 immersive realities with a focus on gaming communities in the Philippines.

She was a visiting scholar at Free University of Berlin, at the Berlin Institute for Migration and Integration Research at Humboldt University, and at Télécom Paris Tech. Her research has appeared in edited collections and in leading journals, including the Journal of Communication, Cultural Studies, Research on Language and Social Interaction, and The Journal of Refugee Studies. She has co-authored the SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration with Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, and Radhika Gajjala (2020) and Together: Communicating Interpersonally. A Social Construction Approach (6^th ed., 2005) with John Stewart and Karen Zediker, published by Oxford University Press. Her latest book Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression is forthcoming with Stanford University Press.

During her time at LSE, Dr. Saskia Witteborn is working with Professor Myria Georgiou.

Expertise

Digital migration studies, Technology and the geopolitics of belonging, Migration into immersive realities, Cultural Communication, Philosophy of Communication, Language and Social Interaction