Mahsa is an Internet researcher focusing on freedom of expression and access to information online in Iran. Her research aims to understands communications ecologies within Iran’s information control space. Mahsa has worked on digital rights on Iran since 2012, in various capacities within civil society. She does research on freedom of expression online in the MENA region with the human rights organisation ARTICLE19. Mahsa is also a Senior Information Control Fellow with the Open Technology Institute, and a Graduate Resident of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights.
Telegram; Social media; social movements; information controls; censorship; surveillance; MENA; Iran; digital activism.
With Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka, Mahsa Alimardani, Dr Jens Foerderer, Dr Michaela Lindenmayr, Professor Helmut Krcmar, and Assistant Prof Maximilian Schreieck
A joint webinar from the OII and TUM about governments using technology to control citizens and Firms’ fake follower use. This event is supported by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation
2 December 2022
In her latest blog, Oxford Internet Institute researcher Mahsa Alimardani shares her personal perspective on the power of the internet as an agent for societal change as an Iranian national studying in the UK.
12 October 2020
5 August 2020
24 June 2020
MIT Technology Review, 19 April 2023
The term ‘smart city’ paints a picture of a tech-enabled oasis—powered by sensors of all kinds. But we’re starting to recognize what all these tools might mean for privacy. In this episode, we meet a researcher studying how this is being applied.
Bloomberg, 22 March 2023
Opposition figures and hate speech researchers say Iran’s regime shouldn’t get to shut down social media at home and use it to spread alleged misinformation abroad.
Sky News, 23 December 2022
Some protesters are leaving their phones at home before demonstrations as the threat of violence from security forces continues, as the videos which are still emerging from Iran are more graphic than before.
