Matilda Tudor
Researcher at Department of Informatics and Media
- E-mail:
- matilda.tudor@im.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum (plan 3)
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Biography
Matilda Tudor PhD., is a media phenomenologist and feminist media researcher. She is currently affiliated as a research fellow and research assistant within the WASP-HS project BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds, led by Amanda Lagerkvist and situated at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University https://www.im.uu.se/research/hub-for-digtal-existence/#anchor-811040.
Her work largely focuses on critical and minority perspectives on what it means to live with and through digital media and communication technologies in relation to the micro politics of everyday existence. It includes a particular interest in theories of embodiment and time-space relationships within the post-digital age.
Tudor is coordinating the DIGMEX network for the study of digital media and existential issues and challenges, comprising over 180 members from all over the world. DIGMEX organizes workshops, seminars and open lectures, as well as the international conference series Digital Existence. https://www.im.uu.se/research/hub-for-digtal-existence/digmex-research-network/. She is also the main coordinator of The Uppsala Informatics and Media Hub for Digital Existence at Uppsala University https://www.im.uu.se/research/hub-for-digtal-existence, led by Amanda Lagerkvist.
Tudor has further been leading and teaching a broad range of courses in Media and Communication Studies, including Gender perspectives in Media Studies, Media History: History of Ideas, Theories of Science in Media Studies, Academic reading and writing, and Qualitative text analysis.

Publications
Selection of publications
Body stakes: an existential ethics of care in living with biometrics and AI
Part of AI & Society, 2024
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Queering digital media spatiality: A phenomenology of bodies being stopped
Part of Feminist Media Studies, p. 1189-1204, 2023
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Sonorous Surfaces, Biased Backends: The Gendered Voices of AI Assistants as Existential Media
Part of Media Backends, p. 193-213, University of Illinois Press, 2023
Part of New Media and Society, p. 3895-3911, 2022
- DOI for A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia
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Part of Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media, p. 395-399, Routledge, 2021
Recent publications
Border technologies and forging relations: a conversation
2025
Body stakes: an existential ethics of care in living with biometrics and AI
Part of AI & Society, 2024
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Queering digital media spatiality: A phenomenology of bodies being stopped
Part of Feminist Media Studies, p. 1189-1204, 2023
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Sonorous Surfaces, Biased Backends: The Gendered Voices of AI Assistants as Existential Media
Part of Media Backends, p. 193-213, University of Illinois Press, 2023
Part of New Media and Society, p. 3895-3911, 2022
- DOI for A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia
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All publications
Articles in journal
Body stakes: an existential ethics of care in living with biometrics and AI
Part of AI & Society, 2024
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Queering digital media spatiality: A phenomenology of bodies being stopped
Part of Feminist Media Studies, p. 1189-1204, 2023
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- Download full text (pdf) of Queering digital media spatiality: A phenomenology of bodies being stopped
Part of New Media and Society, p. 3895-3911, 2022
- DOI for A queer kind of dwelling: Digital throwness and existential security among sexual minorities in Russia
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"Tala klarspråk om genusmotståndarnas politiska agenda"
Part of Altinget: rikspolitik, 2019
Velourmannen, bögen och Järn-Hans: Manskurser och maskulinitet
Part of Lambda Nordica, p. 38-58, 2008
Chapters in book
Sonorous Surfaces, Biased Backends: The Gendered Voices of AI Assistants as Existential Media
Part of Media Backends, p. 193-213, University of Illinois Press, 2023
Part of Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media, p. 395-399, Routledge, 2021