where he taught at the discipline of Media and Communication and at the International MA Programme Media and Global Communication. Ampuja has published on media and social theory, critical theory, media and globalization, information society, political economy of communication and media coverage of economic policies following the financial crisis. A revised version of Ampuja's PhD thesis was published as Theorizing globalization: a critique of the mediatization of social theory (Brill, 2012;

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... market Books, 2013). His current research project, supported by the Academy of Finland, focuses on policies and discourses surrounding innovation and entrepreneurship from an ideology-theoretical perspective. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4849-894X Laurence Barry holds a PhD in political science from the Hebrew University, where she recently taught a course entitled 'The big data revolution in a critical perspective' . Her subjects of interest are neoliberalism, Foucauldian studies, the intertwinement of specific rationalities with modern power and its recent digital turn. From her previous life, she is also an actuary, and currently leads in France a research programme on the impact of big data technologies on insurance mechanisms.