Rate My Professor Nardine Alnemr

Dr. Nardine Alnemr is a Lecturer in Politics and Policy at the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Murdoch University, a position she assumed in 2024. She concurrently holds a fellowship at the university's Indo-Pacific Research Centre. Previously, Alnemr served as a research associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, where she earned her Doctor of Philosophy in 2021. Her PhD thesis, "Citizens and intelligent machines: algorithms in deliberative democracy," investigates the role of algorithms within deliberative democratic processes.

Alnemr's academic interests center on deliberative democracy, algorithmic governance, artificial intelligence's implications for democracy, digital politics, internet governance, and digital rights. Notable publications encompass "Deliberative democracy in an algorithmic society: harms, contestations and deliberative capacity in the digital public sphere" (Democratization, 2025), "Democratic self-government and the algocratic shortcut: the democratic harms in algorithmic governance of society" (AI & Society, 2023), "Advancing deliberative reform in a parliamentary system: prospects for recursive representation" (European Political Science Review, 2024), "Securitizing CyberSpace in Egypt: The dilemma of cybersecurity and democracy" (book chapter, 2021), and "Agenda-setting in Transnational and Global Citizens' Assemblies" (2023). Her scholarship has accumulated over 100 citations on Google Scholar. Alnemr contributes to public engagement via op-eds in The Conversation addressing Western Australian elections and U.S. cryptocurrency policy, alongside podcasts such as "Democracy and Artificial Intelligence: current practices and visions into the future," and blogs on AI-deliberative democracy intersections. At the University of Canberra, she participated in the team awarded the 2021 University Teaching Excellence Award for the "Investigating and Explaining Society" project. She delivers seminars, including on democratic renewal via experimental deliberative mini-publics at Murdoch University's Philosophy Research Seminars.