Alessandro Delfanti, PhD University of Curriculum vitae, April 2017

Room 3017 CCT, 3359 Road, Mississauga ON, Canada, L5L 1C6 delfanti.org | [email protected]

Current position Assistant Professor of Culture and New Media, . Joint appointment at: ­ Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT), Mississauga campus ­ Faculty of Information (iSchool), St. George campus September 2015 –

Past positions Postdoctoral fellow, Innovating Communication in Scholarship Project, affiliations with Science & Technology Studies and Genome Center, University of California, Davis September 2014 – August 2015 Media@McGill postdoctoral fellow, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal September 2013 – August 2014 Adjunct professor (a contratto), Department of Informatics and Communication, University of Milan February 2012 – February 2014

Education Ph.D. in Science and Society, University of Milan, July 2011. Dissertation: “Genome hackers. Rebel biology, open source and science ethic”. Supervisor: Prof. Adam Arvidsson Summer school in Comparative Sociology of Information Societies, University of Oslo, July 2009 Master in Science Communication, SISSA, Trieste, December 2007. Dissertation: “What Dr. Venter did on his holidays: the Sorcerer II and the public communication of biotechnology.” Final mark: 30/30 with distinction. Supervisor: Prof. Yurij Castelfranchi Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Parma, March 2001. Dissertation: “Transgenic animals as patentable inventions. The European law.” Final mark: 100/110. Supervisor: Prof. Angiola Ferrari

Grants, awards and fellowships Fellowship: Sapienza University of Rome, Visiting Professor for Research Activities, May­July 2017. University of Toronto Mississauga Research and Scholarly Activity Fund ($4,110) for the project “Worker Mobilization in the Sharing Economy", 2016 University of Toronto Mississauga Working Groups: “Digital Technologies and Democracy” ($3,000), 2015 Bright Ideas Fellow, ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, University of Edinburgh January – February 2012 Visiting research student, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics, Los Angeles June – December 2010 Research grant, Innovations in the Communication of Science (ICS), SISSA June – December 2007 International prize “The Need to Redefine Patent Law,” Associazione culturale Punto rosso October 2004

Other professional activities Free lance journalist: Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American), Il Manifesto, Il Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, and others. Areas covered: digital cultures, science politics, social movements, 2006 – present Special issues editor and peer review coordinator, Journal of Science Communication, 2008 – 2012 Veterinary clinician, 2001 – 2005 Professional translator (English to Italian), 2006 – 2013

Publications BOOKS Delfanti, A., 2013. Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science, London: Pluto Press (Italian translation: Biohacker. Scienza aperta e società dell’informazione, Milano: Eleuthera, 2013) Arvidsson, A. and Delfanti, A., 2013. Introduzione ai media digitali. Bologna: Il Mulino (second edition: 2016). Under contract with Wiley for translation into English, expected publication: 2018 ARTICLES Delfanti, A., 2016. “Beams of particles and papers. How digital preprint archives shape authorship and credit”, Social Studies of Science 46 (4), pp. 629­645. Casemajor, N., Couture, S., Delfin, M., Goerzen, M., and Delfanti, A., 2015. “Non­participation in digital media. Toward a framework of mediated political action,” Media, Culture & Society 37(6), pp. 850­866 Delfanti, A., 2013. “Geni ribelli. La open science nell’immagine pubblica di due biologi,” Tecnoscienza, Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies 4 (2), pp. 27­50 Delfanti, A., 2011. “Hacking genomes. The ethics of open and rebel biology,” Intl. Review of Information Ethics, 15 Delfanti, A., 2010. “Users and peers: from citizen science to P2P science,” Journal of Science Communication 9 (1) Delfanti, A., Castelfranchi, Y., and Pitrelli, N., 2009. “What dr. Venter did on his holidays. Exploration, hacking, entrepreneurship in the narratives of the Sorcerer II expedition,” New Genetics and Society 28 (4), pp. 415­430 EDITED WORKS Balbi, G., Delfanti, A., and Magaudda, P., 2016. “Digital Circulation: Media, Materiality, Infrastructures,” Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies 7 (1 & 2). Söderberg, J. and Delfanti, A. (eds.), 2015. “Hacking hacked! The life cycles of digital innovation,” special section of Science, Technology & Human Values 40 (5) Delfanti, A. and Söderberg, J. (eds), 2012. “Special issue: Expanding the frontiers of hacking,” Journal of Peer Production 2 Delfanti, A. (ed), 2011. “Know your genes. The marketing of direct­to­consumer genetic testing.” Journal of Science Communication 10 (3) Delfanti, A. (ed.), 2010. “Special issue: User­led and peer­to­peer science,” Journal of Science Communication 9 (1) BOOK CHAPTERS Delfanti, A., 2017. “Distributed biotechnology”, in Tyfield, D., Lave, R., Randalls, S., Thorpe, C. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science, New York: Routledge (in press). Soderberg, J. and Delfanti, A. 2017. “Riappropriarsi dell’hacking. Tre cicli di trasformazione nel capitalismo digitale”, in Armano, E., Murgia, A., and Teli, M. I confini del lavoro negli spazi digitali, Milano: Mimesis Delfanti, A. and Iaconesi, S., 2016. “Open source cancer. Brain scans and the rituality of biodigital data sharing,” in Barney, D., Coleman, G., Ross, C., Sterne, J. and Tembeck, T. (eds): The Participatory Condition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 123­143 Delfanti, A. and Pitrelli, N., 2015. “Open science: revolution or continuity?,” in Albagli, S., Maciel, M.L., and Abdo, A. (eds): Open Science, Open Issues, Rio de Janeiro: IBICT/UniRio, 2015, pp. 59­68 Delfanti, A., 2014. “Is do­it­yourself biology being co­opted by institutions?,” in Bureaud, A. and Whiteley, L. (eds): Meta­life. Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, Alife and the Arts, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014 Delfanti, A., 2012. “Tweaking genes in your garage: biohacking between activism and entrepreneurship,” in Wolfgang Sützl and Theo Hug (eds): Media Activism and Biopolitics. Critical Media Interventions in the Age of Biopower. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, pp. 163­178 EDITORIALS, SHORT PAPERS AND REPORTS Delfanti, A., 2017. “Evil Scholarly Publishing”, Cultural Anthropology (in press) Delfanti, A., 2015. “Preprints and peer review: a lesson from physics,” Journal of Science Communication 14 (4), C05 Delfanti, A., 2014. “Curami, curami, curami! Malattia e condivisione in rete,” Studi culturali 1, pp. 82­88 Delfanti, A., 2013. “La scienza aperta nell’era dei media digitali,” in Bertram, N. (ed.): Sociale, digitale. Trasformazioni della cultura e delle reti. Milano: Doppiozero Mancuso, M., Delfanti, A., et al. (eds.), 2012. “The open future,” special issue of Musique et Cultures Digitales vol. 68 Delfanti, A., 2012. “Open access and science communication. Reflections on the need for a more open communication environment.” Journal of Science Communication 11 (2) Delfanti, A., 2011. “Where is public communication of science going?,” Journal of Science Communication 10 (2) Delfanti, A., 2011. “Internet fra dono e mercato, discussione su Marco Aime e Anna Cossetta Il dono al tempo di internet,” Studi Culturali vol. 8, pp. 107­124 Niessen, B. et al., 2010. “Openwear. Sustainability, openness and P2P production in the world of fashion,” research report Delfanti, A., 2010. “Open science, a complex movement,” Journal of Science Communication 9 (3) Picardi, I. and Delfanti, A., 2009. “ScienceDebate2008. Scienza, politica e web nelle presidenziali USA,” in Pitrelli, N. et al., Atti del VII Conv. Naz. sulla Comunicazione della Scienza, Polimetrica, pp. 167­174 Delfanti, A. (ed.), 2008. “Web and collaborative science,” Journal of Science Communication 7 (2) BOOK REVIEWS “By any media necessary. Disturbances” by Critical Art Ensemble, Digicult, 2013 Cyberchiefs by O’Neil, M., New Media and Society, 12, 2010 Communicating Biological Sciences by Nerlich, B. et al., Tecnoscienza, 1 (1), 2010 Communication Power by Castells, M., Journal of Science Communication, 8 (4), 2009 The Scientific Life by Shapin, S., Journal of Science Communication, 8 (1), 2009 “How­to establish PCST. Two handbooks on science communication.” Review of Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology by Bucchi, M. and Trench, B. and Communicating Science in Social Contexts by Cheng, D. et al., Journal of Science Communication, 7 (4), 2008

Teaching UNDERGRADUATE University of Toronto Mississauga: CCT222 “Political economy of communication, culture and technology,” Fall 2016 CCT300 “Critical analysis of media,” Winter 2016 and 2017 CCT490 “Special topics: Digital cooperation in everyday life,” Fall 2015 WRI430 “Journalistic investigation,” Fall 2015 and Winter 2016 WRI392 “Research and writing,” Winter 2016 McGill University “Online cooperation in daily life,” Fall 2013, B.A. Communication Studies, GRADUATE University of Toronto INF2240 “Political economy and cultural studies of information,” Fall 2016 University of Milan “Sociology of new media,” Spring 2012 and 2013, M.A. Informatics and Communication Student supervising University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Member of the doctoral dissertation committee for Alexander Cybulski, Faculty of Information. PhD thesis: “Copypunk. Videogame hackers, copyright and the control of new media”. Advisor: Sara Grimes (ongoing) Member of the doctoral dissertation committee for Rianka Singh, Faculty of Information. Advisor: Sarah Sharma (ongoing) Member of the doctoral dissertation committee for Ava Lew, Faculty of Information. Advisor: David Nieborg (ongoing) Dissertation advisor for Nicole Stradiotto, Master of Information (ongoing). Open University of Catalunya, Doctoral Program on Information and Knowledge Society Rosen Bogdanov, PhD Thesis: “Open source biology and public participation in the life sciences”, (ongoing). Member of the dissertation committee SISSA, Trieste, Master in Science Communication Michele Bellone, M.A. Thesis: “Digital ethnography of online anti­vaccination movements”, 2015 Davide Mancino, M.A. thesis: “Shutting down Nature: The SCOAP3 project and the future of scholarly publishing,” 2013 Filippo Bonaventura, M.A. thesis: “It was from there that we emerged, to see the stars. Communicating astronomical culture in Italy,” 2012 Gabriele Ferrari, M.A. thesis: “Oppenheimer at the Playstation: How videogames narrate nuclear power”, 2011

Conferences “Academia as a financial market of ideas”, Canadian Communication Association, Toronto 2017 “You’re deactivated! Being fired in digital capitalism”, Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies, Toronto 2017 “ArXiv or viXra? Doppelgängers and the Quest for the True Archive”, Society for Social Studies of Science conference, Barcelona, 2016 “Beams of Particles and Papers: The Archive as Flux”, What is Media? Conference, Portland OR, 2016 Chair of the panel “Transforming Scholarship: Open Access, Data Sharing, and Emerging Forms of Publication”. Society for Social Studies of Science, Denver, 2015. Individual paper: “High energy papers: communication and credit in particle physics” “Towards a critique of hacker practices and politics”, Canadian Communication Association, St. Catharines, , 2014 “File sharing: not movies but biomedical data”, World Social Science Forum, Montreal, 2013 Convenor of the panel “Hacking STS: bio­hacking, open hardware development, and hackerspaces.” Paper presented: “Biohacking and the meanings of openness in the life sciences”, 4S/EASST conference, Copenhagen, 2012 Chair of the roundtable “Does PCST belong in the university?”, International Public Communication of Science and Technology conference, Florence, 2012 “Le politiche del biohacking: DIYbio nel capitalismo digitale”, STS Italia conference, Rovigo, 2012 “Internet e la torre d’avorio della scienza”, Internet Governance Forum Italia, Trento, 2011 “Hacking genomes. A study of open source biotech ethos”, Ten Years After: Mapping the Societal Landscape of Genomics Conference, Amsterdam, 2010 “Hacking genomes. A study of open source biotech ethos”, Risky Enanglements? Contemporary Research Cultures Imagined and Practised, Vienna, 2010 “ScienceDebate2008. Web2.0 e scienza nelle presidenziali Usa”, Science Communication Conference, Forlì, 2008 “What dr. Venter did on his holidays: the Sorcerer II and the public communication of biotechnology”, Public Communication of Science and Technology World Congress, Malmö, 2008

Invited talks and panels “Academic Governance in the Age of Academia.edu”. Talk, University of Milan, 2016 “Distributed Biotechnology”. Seminar, University of Geneva, Rethinking Science and Public Participation Colloquium Series, 2016 “Open Science, Democracy, and Capitalism”. Sapienza University of Rome, Rethinking the Relation between Science and Democracy Conference, 2016. “Scholarship as a Financial Market of Ideas”. Talk, York University, STS speaker series, 2016 “Social Media and Academic Labour”. Talk, OpenCon conference, Toronto, 2016 “You’re disconnected! Getting fired in platform capitalism” invited presentation at The Politics of Disconnection and Disruptive Media international workshop, Sodertorn University, Stockholm, 2016 “The Scientific Ethos”, invited presentation, Digital Sociology conference, University of Milan, 2016 Talk, “arXiv or viXra? Doppelgängers and the Quest for the True Archive,” Academic Misconduct Conference, University of California, Davis, 2016 Talk, “Beams of particles and papers. The archive in high­energy physics,” Art of the Archive conference, University of California, Davis, 2015 Talk, “The politics of open biology: a moral economy,” workshop on Responsibility as an Integral Component of Digital Research Practices in Nano and Biotechnology, Waag Society, Amsterdam, 2015 Seminar, “Vers une biologie citoyenne?” University of Lausanne, 2014 Talk, “Open source cancer: hacking and biodigital rituals of sharing,” workshop on Medicine, the Body, and the Digital Revolution” University of Zurich, 2014 Talk, “Non­participation in digital media. Toward a framework of mediated political action,” Digital Culture Initiative, University of California, Davis, 2014 Talk, “Citizen biology: from kitchens to institutions,” Garages, Kitchens and Hackerspaces conference, European University, St Petersburg, 2014 Talk, “Open science, revolution or continuity?,” international seminar Open Science, Open Issues, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Open Knowledge Foundation Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2014 Public talk, “Open source cancer: hacking and biodigital rituals of sharing,” Art/Science Salon, University of Toronto, 2014 Moderator of the panel “Biological systems as generative models for the future”, Sight & Sound Festival, Montreal, 2014 Public talk, “Biohackers. The politics of open science”, McGill University, Montreal, 2014 Seminar, “File sharing: medical data and collective cure in the digital sphere”, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 2014 Public talk, “Biohackers. The politics of open science”, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 2014 Invited talk, “Challenges of open science”, Celsius Science & Society seminar, Dublin City University, 2014 Chair of the panel “Under the skin: Revealing invisible data”, Transmediale festival, Berlin, 2014 Invited talk on “Participatory medicine”, Media@McGill speaker series, McGill University, Montreal, 2014 Seminar, “What is open science?”, Open science workshop, Université du Québec a Montréal, Montreal, 2013 Talk, “Pirate modernities”, Internet festival, Pisa, 2013 Talk, “Biohacker contaminations”, The spaces of hacking Simposium, Montreal, 2013 Public talk, “La scienza aperta e le istituzioni della ricerca”, World Wide Rome – Open Science, Roma, 2013 Seminar, “Commoning in open science” ,Bartleby, Bologna, 2013 Talk, “Citizen science and new forms of collaboration”, Challenges to Researching, Engaging & Governing the Messiness of Convergence, University of Edinburgh, 2012 Public talk, “DIYbio: Empowerment or anarchy?”, Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2012 Seminar, “Genome hackers”, Sociology department, University of Goteborg, 2011 Seminar, “Hacking genomes”, History of Science Colloquiums, University of California Los Angeles, 2010 Talk, “The dark side of open access”, Workshop on Technoscience and Knowledge Society, Università di Bologna, 2010 Talk, “Who owns science?”, Plagiarism in Science and Technological Evolution Symposium, Università di Trento, 2010 Talk, “Da Santoro al popolo viola. La determinazione mediatica del dibattito politico”, Department of Political Science, Università di Padova, 2010

Research activities P.I, “Digital Media and Democracy” working group, University of Toronto Research team leader, “The predicament of participation”, The Participatory Condition Conference and POOC (Participatory Open Online Course), 2013 – 2014, McGill University, Montreal Member of the research group “Bits, Bots and Bytes,” 2013 – present, McGill University, Montreal Co­author of the final report, “Openwear,” EU project on collaborative fashion production, 2010 – 2011, University of Milan Member of the research group “Innovations in the communication of science” (ICS), 2007 – present, SISSA, Trieste

Academic and professional service CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION International workshop “Exploring Material Perspectives on Disconnection”, University of Toronto, 2016 Seminar, “The social life of medical data. The politics of sharing, pooling and appropriating medical information”, University of California Davis, Spring 2015 Speaker series, ICIS project and Science and Technology Studies Program, University of California Davis, 2014/15 International workshop “Circulating genomes: sharing in the life sciences sector”, ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, University of Edinburgh, 2012 JOURNAL REVIEWS (2009 – PRESENT) Public Understanding of Science (2); International Journal of Cultural Studies (1); In Circulation (1); Journal of Peer Production (2); Systems and Synthetic Biology (1); Journal of Organizational Change Management (1); Journal of Science Communication (4); Tecnoscienza, Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies (2); Studi Culturali (1); Quaderni di Sociologia (1); The Political Economy of Communication (1); Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (1); Futures (2); Problemi dell’informazione (1); Research Policy (1) BOOK PROPOSAL REVIEWS Cambridge University Press (1) OTHER PROPOSAL REVIEWS London Science Museum (1); Mitacs Accelerate Program (1) SCIENTIFIC BOARDS Participatory Design Conference, Aarhus, 2016 Journal of Peer Production, 2011 – present National conference on science communication, Trieste, 2013 Workshop “Science journalism and power in 21st century,” Trieste, 2010 National conference on science communication, Forlì, 2008 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 4S ­ Society for Social Studies of Science National Journalists Association, Bologna, Italy (pubblicista), 2010 – present STS Italia – The Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies Selection of media appearances BOOK REVIEWS “Rebels or profiteers?,” Science, August 2014 “Apologia di un hacker,” L’Espresso, May 2014 “Biohackers by Alessandro Delfanti,” The Guardian, July 2013 “Can do­it­yourself biology change science or save a life?,” TechPresident, December 2013 “La cultura hacker incontra le scienze della vita,” Le Scienze, November 2013 “L’open source irrompe nei laboratori e cambia le regole del gioco scientifico,” Il Manifesto, October 2013 “Biohackers by Alessandro Delfanti,” Post Magazine, July 2013 “Quelle frontiere dell’ambivalenza,” Il Manifesto, April 2013 INTERVIEWS “Chi sono i biohacker e perché la difesa USA li cerca,” Il Venerdì di Repubblica, January 2016 “La biologia fai da te tra cantine e garage,” Pagina 99, December 2015 “Biohacker, ecco chi sono gli hacker della vita,” Wired Italia, February 2015 “Hacking the code of life,” Delta Sky Magazine, December 2014 “Italian heralds crowdsource in battle with brain cancer,” Montreal Gazette, February 2014 “Delfanti, ricercatore piacentino: quando la rete ‘cura’ il cancro,” La Libertà, August 2013 “I pionieri della scienza fai­da­te,” La Repubblica, December 2012 “Il business dei sani,” E ­ Emergency magazine, October 2011 RADIO INTERVIEWS “Biohacking,” CKUT, Montreal, April 2014 “Do­it­yourself biology,” Rai Radio 3, December 2013 “Biohacker,” Radio Città del Capo, October 2013 “Biohacker,” Radiopopolare, October 2013 “L’Europa e l’open access,” Radio Città del Capo, April 2013 “I test genetici e il mercato,” Rai Radio1, October 2011 TELEVISION INTERVIEWS “Biohacker,” Radio Télévision Suisse, 2015