Dr Janna Joceli Omena new fellow at the IfK

(28.08.2025) The new fellow at the Center for Digitized Public Spheres Research comes from the United Kingdom: Dr Janna Joceli Omena from King's College London will be visiting the IfK from September.

Omena is a lecturer in digital methods (assistant professor) at the Department for Digital Humanities at King's College London. She researches and combines the practice and theory of digital methods, focusing on computer-assisted media from a conceptual, technical and empirical perspective in order to advance reproducible methods and research software. Her work examines how AI, web technologies, digital objects and research software influence methodology, implementation and knowledge production.

Janna Joceli Omena is the author of Métodos Digitais: Teoria-Prática-Crítica (2019), the first anthology on digital methods in Portuguese, and co-organiser of a bilingual special issue on the data sprint approach (2022). She is also a member of the Public Data Lab, the Knowledge Graphs Interest Group at the Alan Turing Institute, and a collaborator with the Digital Methods Initiative.

During her stay, Janna Joceli Omena will work with the Digital Media & Computational Methods department on research software for AI-supported image and network analysis. To this end, the department is hosting a one-week methods café in the second week of September, to which interested colleagues are cordially invited. Her first scholarship stay is planned for 1 to 12 September 2025, with a second stay scheduled for September 2026 (exact dates to be announced).

We look forward to discussing future research and teaching collaborations with her and warmly welcome Janna Joceli Omena to the Department.

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