Officers

Following the elections in Leicester (July 2016), the ESN can count on the following leadership:

Ksenia Ermoshina & Sylvia Blake (co-chairs)

Francesca Musiani & Sandra Ristovska (outgoing co-chairs)

The ESN leadership counts on a number of committees made up of volunteer members helping in a number of tasks:

• Jennifer Henrichsen (Mentorship Program)

• Abstract Review Committee: Vivi Theodoropoulou (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus); Julia Pohle (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany); Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Annika Sehl (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany); Kate Zambon (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Amira Firdaus (University of Malaya, Malaysia); Sarah Ganter (University of Vienna, Austria); Ana Duarte Melo (University of Minho, Portugal); Sheena Johnson-Brown (University of Technology, Jamaica); Sandy Schumann (Oxford Centre for Intergroup Conflict, UK); Aleksandra (Sasa) Gorisek (University of Vienna, Austria); Ruth Sanz Sabido (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK); Carla Cerqueira (University of Minho, Portugal); Katharine Reed Allen (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Sara Bannerman (McMaster University, Canada); Rowan Howard-Williams (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Sibo Chen (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

The ESN co-chairs

Ksenia Ermoshina

Born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Ksenia started her research career at the faculty of philosophy and political science, State University of Saint-Petersburg. Her master in philosophy, defended in 2010, was dedicated to the notion of miracle viewed through a lense of epistemology and history of science. At the same time Ksenia reorients towards sociology and integrates French University Colledge where she wins a scholarship to make a Masters in Paris. Her second Masters is dedicated to a study of occupations of Universities as a form of collective action, with a specific interest to the usage of media by the participants. 

In 2012, Ksenia started a PhD at the Center for Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris Tech, France. Her thesis is dedicated to a study of civic apps in France and Russia. Within STS framework, Ksenia analyses interfaces of the applications and the way infrastructure and design orients civic participation.

In September 2016, Ksenia started her postdoc at the Institute for Science of Communication, CNRS, France working within the project NEXTLEAP, focused at the development of new generation privacy enhancing technologies.

Ksenia also teaches at Sciences Po, a course for Masters program called Mapping Controversies.

https://ensmp.academia.edu/KseniaErmoshina/

Sylvia Blake

Sylvia Blake is an instructor and doctoral researcher at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication, where she holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship and the CanWest Global Graduate Fellowship in Communications. Her research traces the evolution of the media diversity principle and seeks policy tools to support diversity within Canada and globally in the context of evolving media technologies, industry globalization, and trade liberalization. She teaches undergraduate classes related to broadcasting policy in Canada and cultural industries within Canada and globally.

Prior to accepting the position of ESN Chair, Sylvia was the coordinator for the ESN’s renowned Mentorship Program and a member of the review committee for several years. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvia-blake-93539730

The ESN volunteers

Jennifer R. Henrichsen (Mentorship Program Coordinator)

Jennifer R. Henrichsen is a Ph.D. student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is interested in exploring how technological and economic changes influence media innovation and privacy loss in digital communications. Most recently, she was the First Look Media Technology Fellow at the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington, D.C. Previously, she was the research and program coordinator for the Journalism After Snowden initiative at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Jenn has been a consultant to UNESCO, where she completed a global research project on digital security issues facing journalists. A Fulbright Research Scholar, Jenn received a BA with honors from Pacific Lutheran University and a Master’s Degree in International and European Security with honors from the University of Geneva and the Geneva Center for Security Policy. She co-wrote a book titled, War on Words: Who Should Protect Journalists? (Praeger, 2011).