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x EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

of data between different people and organisations. This includes exam-
ining how government policies and legislation shape how data move
between different sites of practice.
More recently, Dr. Bates led an AHRC project (The Secret Life of a
Weather Datum) which examined the socio-cultural values, practices and
public policies shaping the journey and form of meteorological data from
its initial production through to being re-used in different contexts,
including climate science and financial markets.
Source: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/staff/batesresearch
Professor Jodi Dean is a political philosopher and Professor in the
Political Science department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She
has also held the position of Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the
Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Drawing from Marxism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, and post-
modernism, Professor Dean has made contributions to contemporary
political theory, media theory, and feminist theory, most notably with her
theory of communicative capitalism; the online merging of democracy and
capitalism into a single neoliberal formation that subverts the democratic
impulses of the masses by valuing emotional expression over logical dis-
course.
She is the co-editor of the journal Theory & Event.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Dean
Dr. Shane Gunster is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program
Chair in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. His
research and teaching interests focus upon environmental communication,
especially the politics of climate and energy. His recent work has been
published in the Canadian Journal of Communication, the Canadian
Journal of Political Science and edited collections with Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, University of Toronto Press and MIT Press. He is cur-
rently working on a book manuscript on environmental journalism. He has
also worked closely with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on a
variety of research projects associated with the Climate Justice Project.
Source: http://pics.uvic.ca/events/good-life-green-life