Nadia Jude

Bio

I am an interdisciplinary media, technology and policy researcher, passionate about advancing social, political and digital justice through research that is publicly engaged and develops inventive forms of situated, immanent critique.

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Edinburgh Law School working on the UKRI-funded research project: ‘Infra-legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, AI and International Law’. Here, I am developing skills in ethnographic and socio-legal research methods to critically examine how the moderation of ‘terrorist and violent extremist content’ (TVEC) online is co-produced by states, private companies and civil society organisations in practice.

I hold a BA in International Politics and an MA in Public Policy from the University of Melbourne. My doctoral thesis focused on policy and regulation relating to disinformation, and is in the final stages of completion with the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology. My research has been published in New Media & Society, Media International Australia andTech Policy Press. I also have 10 years of experience working across government, industry and not-for-profit organisations, bringing skills in product management, digital analytics, digital policy and communications.

Exploring knowledge infrastructures that uphold open-source intelligence (OSINT) work

I am currently developing research on ‘emergent intelligence infrastructures’ and am interested in exploring recent changes to knowledge infrastructures that uphold open-source intelligence (OSINT) work.

OSINT work is deeply participative, often combining crowd-sourced labour, user-generated online data, algorithmic decision-making and AI, to both enable and resist knowledge claims about ‘risky’ people and behaviours. This work depends on complex knowledge infrastructures that are shaped by a variety of social, technological, economic, political and legal dynamics.

My plan is to work with a broad range of organisations developing OSINT technologies, workflows and methods for online safety and security-related purposes. Here, I am particularly interested in exploring connections between work on ‘infrastructural participation’ with relational ‘infra-legalities’ methods. In doing so, I hope to develop inventive methods for examining ‘emergent intelligence infrastructures’ where models for greater transparency and accountability around security decisions can be re-imagined and re-composed.