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Past Member

Hector Amaya

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Philosophy of Communication
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Hector Amaya’s project engages new forms of violence and harm afforded by digitization and internet technologies, and evaluates them against normative ideas about publicness and intersubjectivity. These forms of violence include bullying and trolling; hate speech; self-published violence; digital geopolitics, such as political and infrastructure cyber-attacks; and hacking.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ph.D.
2003
University of Calgary, Canada
M.A.
1997
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México
H.B.A.
1990

Appointments

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
2016–2017
Visiting Scholar
Southwestern University
2003–2008
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies