Dr. Guy Paltieli is a Polonsky Academy Fellow at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Dr. Paltieli Received his PhD in Politics at The University of Cambridge where he studied the meaning of solitude in democratic thought, suggesting that in an online environment solitude should be an alternative to privacy. His current project “Privacy, Presence and Participation: Changing Political Concepts in a Visible Democracy” focuses on the way new forms of technology change the meaning of political concepts. His research focuses mainly on datafication as a new civic virtue, new forms of virtual representation and the politics of data since the end of the Second World War.
