Dr. Giota Alevizou is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Culture and Co-Director of the MA in Digital Futures. She is a board member of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association.
Her research in digital humanities examines how technologies shape paradigms, methods, and genres that foster artificial and collaborative intelligence, as well as collective action. A central strand of her work explores how innovation trajectories and the materiality of global informational assemblages and social technologies influence the epistemology of media—from alternative and learning media, encyclopaedias, and semantic systems to contemporary developments such as large language models (LLMs) and creative AI platforms.
She also investigates how digital creativity contributes to civic culture, with related work on digital sustainability, digital/bio citizenship, digital activism, and the development of the “smart” city. She leads the ‘Outsmarted’ project, supported by the Digital Futures Institute and the Centre for Digital Culture, which foregrounds young people’s perspectives on the intersections of digital technologies and the learning city.
She has previously co-led multiple research projects funded by the Hewlett and Gates Foundations, as well as the AHRC/EPSRC, integrating critical technology studies with approaches from open commons and design justice. Her publications span knowledge representation, collective intelligence, educational commons, platformisation, data ethics, and digital and creative cities. Her monograph, The Web of Knowledge, will be published by Polity in February 2026.
