Rate My Professor Sky Croeser

Dr. Sky Croeser is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Internet Studies within the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities, at Curtin University. She also holds the role of Project Units Coordinator at the Centre for Human Rights Education. Croeser earned her PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Western Australia in 2010. Her academic career includes research positions at the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University starting from 2005, with her appointment at Curtin University commencing around 2010.

Croeser's research centers on how people, particularly activists, use and reshape the technologies of everyday life. Her interests include social movements, activism, feminism, anarchism, internet studies, climate change action, queer parenting praxis in artificial intelligence development, intersectional perspectives on online freedom of speech, internet governance in post-revolutionary Tunisia, and anti-fascist activism in Greece. She has collaborated with activist and community groups worldwide, including the Tactical Technology Collective, on research, workshops, and projects. Croeser delivers teaching in areas such as digital and social media, power, politics, and the internet, and supervises honors, project, and PhD students. Her contributions extend to conference presentations at events like the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), International Communication Association (ICA), and various activist gatherings. Notable publications include the monograph Global Justice and the Politics of Information: The Struggle over Knowledge (Routledge, 2015); co-edited book Voices from the Field: Lessons in Social Change in the Global Economy (Lexington Books, 2014); 'Theories of parenting and their application to artificial intelligence' (AIES 2019, with Peter Eckersley); 'Blended Data: Critiquing and Complementing Social Media Datasets, Big and Small' (Second International Handbook of Internet Research, 2020, with Tim Highfield); 'Transforming Tunisia: Transitional Justice and Internet Governance in a Post-Revolutionary Society' (International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2016, with Christalla Yakinthou); 'Post-industrial and digital society' (The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism, 2018); and 'Thinking Beyond “Free Speech” in Responding to Online Harassment' (Ada, 2016). Her work has garnered over 238 citations on Google Scholar.