Rikke Bjerg Jensen

I am a Reader in the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London. My work is ethnographic in nature and grounded in explorations of information security practices and needs among groups of people living and working at the margins of societies.


why ethnography matters to information security

Together with Nicola Wendt, I wrote this piece on how ethnography can contribute to information security, which appeared in the ISG Newsletter 2020/2021. An emerging body of information security scholarship has explored the security needs and practices of distinct groups of people, often focusing on those who are either marginalised or at higher security risk, e.g. activists, refugees, undocumented migrants. What these works highlight, among other things, is that information security relies as much on people’s experiences of security in their interactions with technology as on the security of the technology itself.
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