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Marie Eneman

Docent

Department of Applied IT, div Informatics
Telephone
+46 709-75 88 44
Mail
marie.eneman@ait.gu.se
Visiting address
Medicinaregatan 7B (Natrium)
41390 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 470
405 30 Göteborg

About Marie Eneman

Marie Eneman, Associate Professor in Informatics

I am Associate Professor (Docent) in Informatics at the University of Gothenburg. I hold a PhD in Informatics and an MSc in Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. My research is situated at the intersection of critical AI and data studies, surveillance studies, science and technology studies (STS), and technology regulation.




Research

My research examines the politics and practices of digital and AI-based surveillance and algorithmic governance in policing and across the wider criminal justice system. I am particularly interested in how political ambitions to strengthen security and crime control intersect with technological developments, expanding the capacities of police and other public authorities to see, know and act.

My work explores how surveillance technologies, biometrics and AI are used across policing and the justice system, from criminal investigations to prosecution and court proceedings, including how digital material is collected, interpreted and used as evidence.

A central concern is how these technologies become part of wider surveillant assemblages, where data, algorithms, legal powers, institutional practices and public–private infrastructures intersect. I examine how these arrangements redistribute capacities for seeing, knowing and acting, while creating technological dependencies and layers of opacity that raise questions about responsibility, rights, regulation, oversight and democratic control.

My research also addresses the policing and regulation of online child sexual exploitation, particularly child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and online sexual grooming, including the legal and technological responses developed to address these crimes.

I participate annually in the SOM Institute's national survey, examining public attitudes towards digital and AI-based surveillance, privacy and the use of surveillance technologies by public authorities.

Research leadership and policy engagement

I lead several externally funded research projects and am Founder and Director of the Swedish Surveillance, Technology and Society Research Hub (SurSoc). The hub brings together research on digital and AI-based surveillance, algorithmic governance and algorithmic seeing, the politics of visibility and opacity, technology regulation, democratic control and accountability. I have also undertaken commissioned evaluations and advisory assignments for the Swedish Police Authority and Swedish government bodies, addressing questions of digital and AI-based surveillance, algorithmic governance, privacy, regulation and oversight.

Teaching and supervision

I teach and supervise at undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, with a particular interest in the politics and governance of digital technologies and AI. I also contribute regularly to academic conferences, policy discussions and public debate.