We are extremely happy to announce that Alessandra Renzi will be joining the Infoscape Lab as a Ryerson Post-Doctoral Fellow in the spring of 2010.

Alessandra is completing a PhD on Telestreet, an Italian network of pirate television producers at OISE, University of Toronto, in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies. Her work focuses on the development of radical research methodologies and collaborative creative practices that overcome the boundaries of representation to strengthen and relay the links between academia and activist communities.

She is involved in various media and migrant rights projects like Precarity Toronto [1], An Interference Project: Wait! [2], and the pirate television channel Insutv [3] in Naples, Italy. She currently teaches in the department of Culture, Communication and Information Technologies of the University of Toronto Mississauga. You can find some of Alessandra’s writings in Boler, M. (ed) Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT Press, 2008), Shuler, D. (ed) Liberating Voices A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution, (MIT Press, 2008), Eckardt, F. et al. (eds.) 

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 Situations, Practices and Encounters, (Franke & Timme, 2008), as well as in Fuse Magazine, Inchiesta and Inflexions.