Professor Marianne Franklin
Staff details

My research explores how digital networked technologies both collide and collude with transformations in society, culture, and politics at the online-offline nexus working from a multidisciplinary background in History, Music, Social and Political Theory, Politics, and Cultural Studies
Academic qualifications
- PhD Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam (NL)
- MA in International Relations, Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam (NL)
- BA in History and Music (Minors in French, Politics, Russian Literature, Philosophy of Science)
- Certificate of Proficiency in Photography Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, NZ
- Associate of the Trinity College of Music (ATCL) in Piano (Performance, Distinction)
- Royal Schools of Music, London Grade VIII (Violin, Distinction)
Teaching and Supervision
- Convener of the MA in Global Media and Politics Programme
- Convener of (Global) Internet Governance and its Critics
- Convener of the MA Research Skills and Dissertation Module
Publications and research outputs
Book
Franklin, M. I.. 2021. Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural. New York/London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190855475
Franklin, M. I.. 2013. Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance, and the Internet. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199982707
Franklin, M. I.. 2012. Understanding Research: Coping with the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide. London/New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-49080-1
Franklin, M. I.. 2005. Resounding International Relations: On Music. Culture, and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403967558
Franklin, M. I.. 2004. Postcolonial Politics, the Internet, and Everyday Life: Pacific Traversals Online. Routledge. ISBN 9780415339407
Edited Book
Franklin, M. I., ed. 2013. The Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet Booklet. UN Internet Governance Forum: Internet Rights and Principles Coalition.
Book Section
Franklin, M. I.. 2021. Music: Women Rewriting Punk Performance Politics. In: Shirin M. Rai; Milija Gluhovic; Silvija Jestrovic and Michael Saward, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 485-500. ISBN 9780190863456
Franklin, M. I.. 2019. Music Making Politics: Around the World in a Song. In: Roland Grätz and Christian Höppner, eds. Musik öffnet Welten: Zur Gestaltung internationaler Kulturbeziehungen. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl. ISBN 9783958295261
Franklin, M. I.. 2019. “Human Rights Futures for the Internet”. In: Matthias Kettemann; Ben Wagner and Kilian Vieth, eds. Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology: Global Politics, Law and International Relations. Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, Massachusetts, USA: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781785367717
Franklin, M. I.. 2018. “How Does the Way We Use the Internet Make a Difference?”. In: Maya Zehfuss and Jenny Edkins, eds. Global Politics: A New Introduction (3rd Edition). London/New York: Routledge, pp. 164-187. ISBN 9781138060289
Franklin, M. I.. 2017. “(Un)Dressing in Public: Defiant Embodiments and the Geopolitics of Seeing”. In: Zeena Feldman, ed. Art and the Politics of Visibility: Contesting the Global, Local, and the In-Between. UK: IB Tauris, pp. 73-113. ISBN 9781780769066
Franklin, M. I.. 2016. The Art of (Un)Dressing Dangerously: The Veil and/as Fashion. In: Andreas Behnke, ed. The International Politics of Fashion: Being Fab in a Dangerous World. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 41-68. ISBN 9781138788985
Franklin, M. I.. 2016. Mobilizing for Net Rights: The IRPC Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet. In: Des (D. J.) Freedman; Cheryl Martens; Robert McChesney and Jonathan Obar, eds. Strategies for Media Reform: International Perspectives. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 9780823271641
Franklin, M. I.. 2016. “Mobilizing for Net Rights: The Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet”. In: Des Freedman; Jonathan Obar; Cheryl Martens and Robert W. McChesney, eds. Strategies for Media Reform: International Perspectives. New York USA: Fordham University Press, pp. 72-91. ISBN 9780823271658
Franklin, M. I.. 2015. (Global) Internet Governance and its Civil Discontents. In: Joanna Kulesza and Roy Balleste, eds. Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Age of Cyberveillance. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781442260412
Franklin, M. I.. 2015. “(Global) Internet Governance and its Civil Discontents”. In: J Kulesza and R Balleste, eds. Cybersecurity: Human Rights in the Age of Cyberveillance. Maryland USA: Rowman and Littlefield/Scarecrow Press, pp. 105-128. ISBN 978-1442260412
Franklin, M. I. and Davies, Matt. 2015. “What does (the Study of) World Politics Sound Like?”. In: Federica Caso and Caitlin Hamilton, eds. Popular Culture and World Politics: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies. E-International Relations, 120--?. ISBN 978-1910814024
Franklin, M. I.. 2015. “(Un)Dressing in Public: Defiant Embodiments and the Geopolitics of Seeing”. In: Zeena Feldman, ed. Art and the Politics of Visibility: Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1780769066
Franklin, M. I.. 2014. Sex, Gender, and Cyberspace. In: Laura J Shepherd, ed. Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations, 2nd Edition. London and NY: Routledge, pp. 375-388. ISBN 978-0415715218
Franklin, M. I.. 2014. “Sex, Gender, and Cyberspace”, Second Edition. In: Laura J Shepherd, ed. Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations, 2nd Edition. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 375-388. ISBN 9780415715218
Franklin, M. I.. 2013. How Does the Way We Use the Internet Make a Difference? In: Maya Zehfuss and Jenny Edkins, eds. Global Politics: A New Introduction, 2nd Edition. London and NY: Routledge, pp. 176-199. ISBN 978-0415684811
Franklin, M. I.. 2011. Decolonising the Future: Not to go where Cyborgs have gone before? In: Pieter Wisse, ed. Interoperabel Nederland. Den Haag: Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, pp. 22-41. ISBN 978-9-079-49003-5
Franklin, M. I.. 2009. Sex, Gender and Cyberspace. In: Laura Shepherd, ed. Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 326-346. ISBN 978-0-415-45388-2
Franklin, M. I.. 2007. Democracy, Postcolonialism, and Everyday Life: Contesting the ‘Royal We’ Online. In: Lincoln Dahlberg and Eugenia Siapera, eds. Radical Democracy and the Internet: Interrogating Theory and Practice. London and NY: Palgrave Schol, pp. 168-190. ISBN 978-0230007208
Article
Franklin, M. I.. 2018. Refugees and the (Digital) Gatekeepers of “Fortress Europe”. State Crime Journal, 7(1), pp. 77-99. ISSN 2046-6056
Franklin, M. I.. 2014. DRIP is an abuse of our rights not a matter of national security. The Conversation,
Franklin, M. I.. 2013. Veil Dressing and the Gender Geopolitics of “What Not to Wear”. International Studies Perspectives, 14(4), pp. 394-416. ISSN 1528-3577
Franklin, M. I.. 2013. Human rights on the internet: online, you have rights too. The Guardian,
Franklin, M. I.. 2013. Like it or not, we are all complicit in online snooping. The Conversation,
Franklin, M. I.. 2012. Being Human and the Internet; Against Dichotomies. Journal of Information Technology, 27(4), pp. 315-318. ISSN 0268-3962
Franklin, M. I. and Wilkinson, Kenton T.. 2011. Transnational Communications in Action: A Critical Praxis. Communication, Culture and Critique, 4(4), pp. 361-381.
Franklin, M. I.. 2010. Digital Dilemmas: Transnational Politics in the 21st Century. The Brown Journal of World Affairs, 16(2), pp. 67-85. ISSN 1080-0786
Franklin, M. I.. 2009. “Who’s Who in the ‘Internet Governance Wars’: Hail the Phantom Menace?”. International Studies Review, 11(1), pp. 221-226.
Franklin, M. I.. 2008. “What If? Confessions of a Sceptical Activist”. Making Communications Research Matter: Essay Forum in Social Science Perspectives, ?-?.
Franklin, M. I.. 2007. NGOs and the Information Society: Grassroots Advocacy at the UN - a cautionary tale. Review of Policy Research, 24(4), pp. 309-330. ISSN 1541132X
Franklin, M. I.. 2003. I Define My Own Identity Pacific Articulations of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’on the Internet. Ethnicities, 3(4), pp. 465-490. ISSN 1468-7968
Franklin, M. I.. 2002. Reading Walter Benjamin and Donna Haraway In the Age of Digital Reproduction. Information Communication & Society, 5(4), pp. 591-624. ISSN 1369118X
Franklin, M. I.. 2001. Inside Out: Postcolonial Subjectivities and Everyday Life Online. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 3(3), pp. 387-422. ISSN 1461-6742
Conference or Workshop Item
Franklin, M. I.. 2017. 'Rock-Chic(k) Lit: Vanguard or Old Guard?'. In: Paper presented on Panel WA73: Music and the Critique of Modern International Relations at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Baltimore (USA), 22nd February 2017. Baltimore, United States.
Franklin, M. I.. 2011. 'Visible Veil Dressing & the Gender Geopolitics of ‘What Not To Wear’'. In: International Studies Association Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada.
Audio
Franklin, M. I.. 2010. “Cyberspace as a public park”.
Digital
Franklin, M. I.. 2014. “Slacktivism, clicktivism, and “real” social change”.
Franklin, M. I.. 2010. "Media research in the 21st Century".
Report
Franklin, M. I.. 2005. Gender Advocacy at the World Summit on the Information Society: Preliminary Observations,. Project Report. GenderIT.org, http://www.genderit.org.
Further profile content
Featured publications
2021: Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural. New York/London: Oxford University Press
2014: Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance and the Internet. New York/London: Oxford University Press
2012: Understanding Research: Coping with the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide. London/New York: Routledge
2005:
Resounding International Relations: On Music, Culture, and Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Editor
2004: Postcolonial Politics, the Internet, and Everyday Life: Pacific Traversals Online. London/New York: Routledge
Professional projects
Steering Committee and former co-Chair of the Internet Rights and Principles Coalition, UN Internet Governance Forum https://internetrightsandprinciples.org
Steering Group member of the Digital Constitutionalism Network
Former Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
Coordinator and Editor of the Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet Booklet Project https://internetrightsandprinciples.org/charter/
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Co-Convener of the Technology and Human Rights research stream
Media engagements
2020:
Panellist, Roundtable: “Too Many Crises! Music and Politics on a Planet on Fire”
TUSK Music Festival 2020, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 3rd October
2016:
The Politics and Digital Geographies of Observing: After the Fall
Keynote: Regarding Spectatorship: Revolt and the Distant Observer, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin,
2013:
Portable Cultures/Travelling Bodies: The Floating Archive in an Age of Digital Redistribution
Guest Speaker, Contingent Movements Symposium, Maldives Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale
Conferences and talks
2019:
Co-Convener/Moderator, Data Governance by AI
Internet Rights and Principles Coalition and Amnesty International, 2019 Internet Governance Forum Meeting, Berlin
2018:
Internet Policy and/as Politics
Keynote: Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG), Berlin, 4th September
2015:
Big Data in the Global South International Workshop
Institute for Technology and Society, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 16-17 November
2017:
Keynote: International Conference: The Industrial Revolution 4.0: Preparing for Disruptive Technologies
Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore Singapore
Grants and awards
Distinguished Scholar Award, ISA Annual Convention 2022, Nashville USA
Honoring STAIR Distinguished Scholar Award Winner Marianne Franklin: sponsored by the Science, Technology and Art in International Relations (STAIR) and International Political Sociology Sections
2019:
UK/EU Hub Lead
Deathscapes: State Violence and Race in Settler Societies: Australian Research Council Project ID: DP160100303
2005:
Research Consultancy
Ford Foundation Research Consultancy, Knowledge, Creativity, and Freedom Program: Portfolio in Electronic Media Policy
2002:
Research Fellowship Award - Social Science Research Council (USA)
Columbia University (USA)