Dr Vassilis Charitsis
Senior Lecturer in Marketing
Eastern Gateway 108
- Email: vassilis.charitsis@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267550
Summary
I am a senior lecturer in Marketing and a board member of Centre of AI: Social and Digital Innovation. Prior to joining Brunel Business School, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Consumer Society Research of the University of Helsinki.
My work has been published in a number of interdisciplinary journals including Marketing Theory, Television & New Media, Surveillance & Society, Social Movement Studies and ephemera: theory and politics in organisation.
My research explores digital cultures and new media technologies.My doctoral thesis focused on the datafication of everyday life through self-tracking technologies. My current research interests include consumer surveillance, automated-decision making, algorithmic biases and data-driven inequalities.
Qualifications
PhD (Karlstad University, Sweden)
MBS by Research (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
MA (University of Brighton, England)
BSc (University of Athens, Greece)
Newest selected publications
Charitsis, V. and Lehtiniemi, T. (2023) 'Data Ableism: Ability Expectations and Marginalization in Automated Societies'. Television and New Media, 24 (1). pp. 3 - 18. ISSN: 1527-4764 Open Access Link
Charitsis, V. and Laamanen, M. (2022) 'When digital capitalism takes (on) the neighbourhood: data activism meets place-based collective action'. Social Movement Studies, 23 (3). pp. 1 - 18. ISSN: 1474-2837
Stuart, R., Braganza, A., Charitsis, V. and Jones, M. (2022) 'Digital poverty in Margate: a study of two hyperlocal communities'. Place of publication: The British Academy. Available at: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/digital-poverty-in-margate-a-study-of-two-hyperlocal-communities/.Open Access Link
Charitsis, V., Yngfalk, AF. and Skålén, P. (2019) '‘Made to run’: Biopolitical marketing and the making of the self-quantified runner'. Marketing Theory, 19 (3). pp. 347 - 366. ISSN: 1470-5931 Open Access Link
Charitsis, V. (2019) 'Survival of the (Data) Fit: Self-Surveillance, Corporate Wellness, and the Platformization of Healthcare'. Surveillance & Society, 17 (1/2). pp. 139 - 144. ISSN: 1477-7487 Open Access Link