Hesselbein Christopher Lorenz

Ricercatore

Hesselbein Christopher Lorenz

Ricercatore

Chris Hesselbein received his PhD in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He is an ethnographer who studies how knowledge and technology, both digital and more mundane, are co-constructed with conceptions of social order and self-identity. Chris is particularly interested in exploring how the production and consumption of technoscience inform, and often naturalize/normalize, our understandings of embodiment, materiality, and aesthetics. Other research projects examine how (expert) knowledge is established as (un)authoritative, and how ‘alternative arti/facts’ are enacted on digital platforms through algorithmic processes.

Carriera

RTDa at DIG/PoliMI since 2022

Ricerca

Science and Technology Studies

Pubblicazioni Selezionate

Hesselbein, C. Bory, P. (2025). Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies. PoliMI SpringerBriefs. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-97167-9

Hesselbein, C., Canali, S., Bory, P. (2024). Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication: An emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon. Information, Communication & Society, 28(5), 778–796. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2433548

Canali, S., Hesselbein, C. (2023). “Using and Interpreting FemTech Data: (Self-)Knowledge, Empowerment, and Sovereignty”. In L.A. Balfour (ed.) FemTech: Intersectional Interventions in Women’s Digital Health (pp. 291-319). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5605-0_13

Hesselbein, C. (2023). Kickstarting Science? Crowdfunded Research, Public Engagement, and the Participatory Condition. Science as Culture, 23(4), 583-608 https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2023.2222741

Hesselbein C. (2021), "Walking the Catwalk: From Dressed Body to Dressed Embodiment", Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture, 25, 367-393

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