Mike Ananny is an Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where he studies the intersection of journalism practice and technology design, the public significance of digital news infrastructures, and the ethics of algorithmic systems. He is also on the Steering Committee of USC’s Science, Technology and Society research cluster, a Faculty Fellow with USC’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and co-directs the interdisciplinary research group “MASTS” (Media as SocioTechnical Systems) and the Sloan Foundation project Knowing Machines (with Kate Crawford and Jason Schultz). He was a 2022 Visiting Professor at the University of Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, a 2018-19 Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and has held fellowships and scholarships with the Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center on Internet and Society, Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, LEGO, and Interval Research. He was a founding member of Media Lab Europe, a postdoc with Microsoft Research’s Social Media Collective, and has consulted for LEGO, Mattel, and Nortel Networks. His PhD is from Stanford University (Communication), SM from the MIT Media Lab (Media Arts & Sciences), and BSc from the University of Toronto (Human Biology & Computer Science). He has published in various academic and popular venues, is the author of Networked Press Freedom (MIT Press, 2018), co-editor (with Laura Forlano and Molly Wright Steenson) of Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press, 2019), and is preparing a manuscript on the public power of silence and mediated absences (under contract with Yale University Press). He has written for popular press publications including The Atlantic, Wired Magazine, Harvard’s Nieman Lab, and the Columbia Journalism Review.