Btihaj Ajana
Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Media, Culture and Creative Industries, and Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Her teaching and research interests are concerned with the areas of culture and identity, ethics and politics, and the philosophy of digital media. She has published on ICT-based surveillance and is the author of “Governing through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity” (Palgrave, 2013), a book that provides a critical and multi-level analysis of the various socio-political and ethical implications of identity systems in relation to the field of immigration and citizenship. She is currently conducting further research in this area looking at the application of Big Data analytics in the governance of mobility, in addition to researching the ontological and ethical aspects of the Quantified Self movement.