Dr. Annette Markham, Chair Professor of Media Literacies and Public Engagement at Utrecht University, is a long time ethnographer of lived experience of digitalization and datafication. As a methodologist, she is well known for developing frameworks for mindful, ethical, and creative approaches to studying digital tech futures. Markham also specializes in using citizen social science methods to build community-centred knowledges about how AI and data-driven logics impact everyday practices and future imaginaries, particularly among young adults. Markham leads the Futures+ Literacies + Methods Lab (FLL) and the Digital Ethnography Methods Lab Lab at Utrecht University.

Markham's work is grounded in nearly 30 years of interpretive sociology and mixed qualitative methods for understanding the impact of digital media and tech on lived experience, especially related to self-identity formation. Markham also specializes in arts-based public engagement, using critical pedagogy and citizen social science methods to facilitate community-centered knowledges about how algorithmic and data-driven logics impact everyday practices and future imaginaries, particularly among young adults in urban contexts. Prior to joining Utrecht University, Markham founded and directed the international Future Making Research Consortium, the Digital Living Research Center at Aarhus University, and the Skagen Institute for Transgressive Methods. Markham is former director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University. She holds honorary adjunct professorships at Aarhus University, Denmark, and RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. CV, publications, and information about upcoming appearances are available at https://annettemarkham.com.