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Azadeh Akbari

1983-·24,087 citations

Azadeh Akbari is Professor of Critical Data & Technology Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt and was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. Her research focuses on digital authoritarianism, surveillance studies, and data justice, particularly within the context of the Global South and the Middle East.

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Works

33 works
TitleYearLanguageCitations▼
Platform surveillance and resistance in Iran and Russia: The case of Telegram2019—171
Authoritarian smart city: A research agenda2022—54
Follow the thing: Data: Contestations over data from the global south2020—53
The Russian invasion of Ukraine: implications for politics, territory and governance2023—46
The threat of automating control: Surveillance of women's clothing in Iran2021—14
The politics of data justice: exit, voice, or rehumanisation?2024—12
Critical ICT4D: The need for a paradigm change2023en11
Shutting down the internet is another brutal blow against women by the Iranian regime2022—10
Digital development dilemma: from progress to control2025—9
Towards a critical political economy of surveillance and digital authoritarianism2025—8
A Critique of Surveillant Assemblage: Bodies, Desire, and the Limits of the Data Double2025—7
Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development)2025en6
Big Tech authoritarianism: Political synergies of an emerging power2025—5
Uneven datafication2026—5
Prospects for reform?: the Iranian elections: the women's movement: an emerging power2009en2
Iran: Digital Spaces of Protest and Control. The Hague, Netherlands: European Center for Not-for-Profit Law2022en2
Prospects for reform?: the Iranian elections: the women’s movement: an emerging power2009en2
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Iran: Digital Spaces of Protest and Control. The Hague, NL: European Center for Not-for-Profit Law2022en2
Iran: Digital spaces of protest and control2022en2
A Resilient ICT4D Approach to ECO Countries' Education Response during COVID-19 Pandemic2021—2
Iran’s Case Should Put an End to Illusions About Digital Sovereignty2026—1
The Birth of Code/Body2025en1
The evolution of ICT4D: content, context, and process2025—1
Seminar Digitale Geographien: Schlüsseltexte und Debatten2022——
Shakhsari, Sima: Politics of Rightful Killing. Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan.2024en—
Book Review: Politics of Rightful Killing. Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan2023en—
Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial/Territorialising the Digital———
FEMINISTISCHE+DIGITALE+GEOGRAPHIE+N: die Politik einer Kontamination2021——
Information and communication technology for development (ICT4D)2024——
Introduction2025——
Situating data: a critique of universalist approaches to data2023——
Pre-Print: Akbari, A.(2024). The Birth of Code| Body. In V. Steeves & B. Roessler (eds.). Being Human in A Digital World. Cambridge University Press.(all …—en—