Biography
Daniel Trottier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Daniel’s research addresses the social impacts of new technologies in daily life, with an emphasis on how individuals and organisations understand how personal information and private exchanges are made public. His current focus includes use of digital media for the purposes of expressing grievances, and denouncing others.
Daniel obtained his PhD in Sociology from Queen’s University, Canada in 2011. His dissertation examined how young adults, organisations and businesses made sense of Facebook’s global ascent, and the consequences this brought for each of them. He then accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta, to further advance a surveillance studies approach to digital media. He then completed postdoctoral fellowships at Uppsala University in Sweden, and the University of Westminster, UK, where he served as work package lead of two Horizon projects (PACT: Public Perception of Security and Privacy: Assessing Knowledge, Collecting Evidence, Translating Research into Action; RESPECT: Rules, Expectations & Security through Privacy-Enhanced Convenient Technologies), to examine police institutions’ perceptions and adoption of social media surveillance.
Upon joining Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2014, Daniel obtained a VIDI to advance the study of Digital Vigilantism for five years. He has subsequently obtained funding to study the impacts of digitalisation on social life including in domains of urban security (IcARUS: Innovative AppRoach to Urban Security), neighbourhood reputation (SYMTRA: Digital Technologies in Symbolic Trajectories of Urban Neighbourhoods) and the ethics of AI development in public safety (AI-MAPS: AI for Multi-Agency Public Safety issues).
Daniel has published extensively, including seven books (three of which are open access) and sixty articles, book chapters and encyclopaedia entries. His 2012 book Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World received ten favourable reviews, and was awarded the 2013 Surveillance Studies Network book prize. He has delivered over sixty keynotes and invited lectures at international conferences, symposiums, and doctoral summer schools.
In addition to supervising eight PhD researchers, Daniel has also served as an examiner for 17 PhD dissertations across disciplines including criminology, information studies, population health, psychology, political science, and management.
Daniel teaches in the International BSc Communication and Media (IBCoM), the MA Media Studies, where he also serves as thesis co-coordinator, and the Research master Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts. Since 2022 he chairs the Research Ethics Review Committee at ESHCC. He is also participating in the SSH-Breed sector plan as co-lead of Theme 6 "Data and cyber harms at work."
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- trottier@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Daniel Trottier & Frazer Woodhead (2024) - Norm enforcement on and of Reddit: Rules of engagement and participation - First Monday, 29 (1) - doi: 10.5210/fm.v29i1.13141 - [link]
- Daniel Trottier, Qian Huang & Rashid Gabdulhakov (2024) - Digital Media, Denunciation and Shaming: The Court of Public Opinion - doi: 10.4324/9781003453017 - [link]
- Ajay Sandhu & Daniel Trottier (2023) - The Criminal Selfie: Conveying Grievance While Recording and Live Streaming Antisocial Behavior - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 29 (3), 423-436 - doi: 10.1007/s10610-023-09548-8 - [link]
- Jessica Vitak, Y (Yuting) Liao, Anouk Mols, Daniel Trottier, Michael Zimmer, Priya Kumar & Jason Pridmore (2023) - When Do Data Collection and Use Become a Matter of Concern?: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of U.S. and Dutch Privacy Attitudes - International Journal of Communication (online), 17 (2023), 471–498 - [link]
- Massimo Fattori, Gabriele Jacobs & Daniel Trottier (2022) - Pluralized Narratives of Security: Descriptive Insights from the Private Industry - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-16273-2_9 - [link]
- Daniel Trottier, Jay Lee & John D. Boy (2022) - Urban Data Analytics as Research Topic, Method and Ethical Concern - Digital Culture & Society, 7 (2), 311-328 - doi: 10.14361/dcs-2021-070215 - [link]
- Shangwei Wu & Daniel Trottier (2022) - Dating apps: A literature review. - Annals of the International Communication Association, 46 (2), 91-115 - doi: 10.1080/23808985.2022.2069046
- Raphael Cohen-Almagor & Daniel Trottier (2022) - Internet Crime Enabling: Stalking and Cyberstalking - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-98015-3_57 - [link]
- Qian Huang, Simone Driessen & Daniel Trottier (2022) - When Pop and Politics Collide: A Transcultural Perspective on Contested Practices in Pop Idol Fandoms in China and The West - International Journal of Communication, 16, 1-19 - [link]
- Daniel Trottier, Qian Huang & Rashid Gabdulhakov (2021) - Covidiots as global acceleration of local surveillance practices - Surveillance & Society, 19 (1), 109-113 - doi: 10.24908/ss.v19i1.14546 - [link]
- Daniel Trottier (2024) - Doxing and denunciation: Unpacking the court of public opinion (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Daniel Trottier (2024) - Thematic session - Communication: Transparency, fake news and social media (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Professional - Daniel Trottier (2024) - Carleton University (External organisation) (Member)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Academic - Daniel Trottier (2024) - Drexel University (External organisation) (Member)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Academic - Daniel Trottier (2024) - The University of Tokyo (External organisation) (Member)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Academic - Daniel Trottier (2024) - University of Toronto (External organisation) (Member)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Academic - Daniel Trottier (2023) - Surveillance & Society (External organisation) (Member)
Activiteit: Membership of board › Academic - Daniel Trottier (2023) - Police Legitimacy on Digital Media in a Context of Political Polarization (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Daniel Trottier (2023) - Curtin University (External organisation) (Member)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Academic - Daniel Trottier (2023) - École Polytechnique Fédéral Lausanne (EPFL) (External organisation) (Member)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Academic
- Daniel Trottier (2013) - Surveillance Studies Network 2013 book prize
Research Master Seminar I
- Level
- MA-1
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CS5016
Media and Business Transformations
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM4101
Vigilant Audiences, Visibility and Reput
- Year Level
- MA, MA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM4252
Surveillance and Societies
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM4602
Digital Citizenship and Community Engage
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM4605
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5000
Master Thesis Project
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5050