Sarah Daoust-Braun

Sarah Daoust-Braun is a doctoral researcher and research and teaching associate at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) at the University of Zurich. Her research examines internet users’ everyday experiences of and responses to datafication and surveillance in their use of emerging AI technologies and digital media, as well as in digital communication. In particular, she uses qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate chilling effects, beneficial experiences with dataveillance, and individual and collective sense-making around data collection and analysis practices. Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) and a master’s degree in social sciences with a specialization in Internet & Society from the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Before pursuing graduate studies, Sarah worked as a journalist for four years in Montreal and Ottawa, Canada.