Btihaj Ajana is Professor of Ethics and Digital Culture at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Her academic research is interdisciplinary in nature and focuses on the ethical, political and ontological aspects of digital developments and their intersection with everyday cultures and modes of governance. She is the author of Governing through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity (2013) and editor of Self-Tracking: Empirical and Philosophical Investigations (2018), Metric Culture: Ontologies of Self-Tracking Practices (2018) and The Quantification of Bodies in Health: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2021). Ajana also uses the medium of film as a way of exploring social issues while bringing scholarly ideas to wider audiences. Her films include Quantified Life (2017), Surveillance Culture (2017), Fem’s Way (2020), and Borderscapes (2022).
