Julie Uldam is Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School. Her PhD and postdoc research was conducted as part of a collaboration between London School of Economics and Copenhagen Business School. Julie’s current research critically explores the interrelations between activism and digital media, including climate justice activism, human rights activism and corporate activism. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including New Media & Society, Organization and International Journal of Communication. Her book Civic Engagement & Social Media was published in 2015. Julie was chair of ECREA’s Communication & Democracy section and chair of the network on Social Innovation and Civic Engagement.

Tina Askanius is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University (Sweden), where she is also the co-director of the interdisciplinary research platform Rethinking Democracy.  She holds a PhD from Lund University where she defended the thesis Radical Online Video. YouTube, video activism and social movement media practices in November 2012. Her research broadly concerns the interplay between social media and social movements and she has published extensively on these matters in the context of social and climate justice movements as well as far-right and neo-Nazi movements in Scandinavia.