Karin van Es is associate professor of media and culture studies and project lead for the Humanities at Data School, both at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Her work is situated at the intersection of television studies, software studies and critical data and algorithm studies. Her current research focuses on streaming video culture and industries. Karin is author of the book The Future of Live (Polity Press, 2016). She is co-editor of the volumes The Datafied Society (AUP, 2017), Situating Data (AUP, 2023), Collaborative Research in a Datafied Society (AUP, 2024), Governing the Digital Society (AUP, 2025) and the special issues "Big Data Histories" (2018) for TMG and "Critical Technical Practice(s)" for Convergence. She has published in outlets such as Television & New Media, Media, Culture and Society, Critical Studies in Television, Social Media + Society, Big Data and Society, and First Monday.
Karin is also program team member of the UU strategic theme Institutions for Open Societies.
At the Centre for Digital Humanities she is impact liason. Here she leads interdisciplinary research projects with external parties and is part of the GenAI in Education Humanities taskforce.