Stefana Broadbent

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Stefana Broadbent was one of the co-authors of the The Onlife Manifesto, which was drafted on behalf of the Digital Futures Task Force of DG Connect of the European Commission in 2012. She was one of the members of the The Onlife Initiative, in which Yiannis Laouris of Future Worlds Center was also a member.

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Stefana Broadbent lectures in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. She is the convener of the MSc in Digital Anthropology. Previously she was in the Strategy Board of Swisscom where she also directed a research unit the User Observatory. She was in the Management Team of IconMedialab now LBi a multinational digital consultancy listed in Stockholm. In 1993 she founded CB&J, a research company that was acquired by IconMedialab in 1999. Stefana holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive science from the University of Edinburgh, and a degree in Psychology from the Univesité de Genève. She has lectured in Anthropology and Ergonomics, at the Politecnico di Milano, the ENSAD in Paris. Her recent book L’Intimite’ au Travail FYP Editions 2011 received the AFCI prize in 2012.