Bjorn Beijnon
Bjorn Beijnon works as of 2021 as a researcher for the lector Access to Justice and as a lecturer at Creative Business. Currently he investigates the accessibility and inclusivity of online jurisdictional services in The Netherlands.
Bjorn is also a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam. His PhD research focuses on digital subjectification by big tech companies through attentional capturing. Through cultural analyses and media ethnographies, he analyses how digital platforms subjectify their users in contemporary surveillance cultures.
In the Digital Divide project, Bjorn investigates how the interfaces of Dutch jurisdictional websites steer (potential) litigants in searching, finding, understanding and using information. Concurrently, he analyses what levels of internet skills are expected of litigants on these websites, based on their design and information.
Expertise
- Big Tech and surveillance
- Online platforms and subjectivity
- Normativity on online platforms
Publications
- Constructing 24/7 Madness. The Pathology Behind Schizophrenia in Western Urban Screen Cultures
- Strategies and tactics in Skyrim through virtual reality the VR–HMD as a model for disciplining in the twenty-first century
- Mediating Knowledge How Theater Transmits Partial Perspectives
