Elizabeth Englezos, PhD
#Hyperconnected
#Hyperconnected
Law and Digital Influence over Individual Identity
My doctoral thesis considers digital technologies and their influence over the individual. As part of this research, I examine the existing law as related to the digital space and options for future legal reform. I specialise in data, privacy, and the law of consent; algorithms and the importance of algorithm design choices; and theories of identity and identity development.
I also have a keen interest in legal theories – particularly the works of Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard – and Intellectual Property Law and completed my honours thesis on patents and biomedical research tools.
Lecturer and Workshop facilitator
I currently teach at the Griffith Law School at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. You can normally find me teaching Contract Law, Foundations of Law, Global Law, Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property and my new elective Law and Digital Media.
That we fall so easily into the screen’s coma of the imagination is due to the fact that the screen presents a perpetual void that we are invited to fill…Yet the image is always light years away. It is invariably a tele-image … located at a very special kind of distance which can only be described as unbridgeable by the body.
Jean Baudrillard, ‘The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena’ (James Benedict trans, Verso, 1995) 55