Dr. A. (Anna) Priante

Anna Priante is Assistant Professor at the Department of Technology and Operations Management (Business Information Management section) at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Anna’s research is at the intersection of sociology and information systems and aims at understanding how digital technologies affect people, organizations and society at large. Her current and future work is organized around three main areas: 1) the use of digital technologies for social change, especially in domains such as health and well-being, education and sustainability; 2) ethics of data and AI; and, more recently, 3) AI and the creative industry.

In her research, Anna combines various methods, including network analytics, statistical analysis, machine learning, content analysis, and computational-intensive approaches for theory construction.  

Her work has been published in leading multi-disciplinary journals including New Media & Society, Social Networks and Nonprofit Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and has appeared in multiple international conferences (Academy of Management Annual Meeting, International Conference of Information Systems, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, American Sociology Association Annual Meeting, and International Sunbelt Social Network Conference).

Anna holds a Ph.D. with a Sociology major from the University of Twente (The Netherlands), a MSc in Sociology and Social Research and a BSc in Sociology from the University of Trento (Italy). Before joining the Rotterdam School of Management, she was Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Administration (Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation Management research group) at the University of Twente. In addition, she has been a visiting scholar on multiple occasions at the Department of Sociology of the University of California, Los Angeles.