Friderike Spang is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics, Prague (CETE-P). Prior to joining CETE-P, she was a Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.Her research spans political philosophy and applied ethics. In political philosophy, she works on theories of compromise, disagreement, and deliberative democracy. In applied ethics, her work focuses on animal and environmental ethics. At CETE-P, her research combines these areas with technology ethics. Specifically, her work explores how democratic innovations and associated technologies can be used to represent the interests of non-human animals in political decision-making.
Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Applied Philosophy, Political Studies Review, Politics and Animals, Journal of Deliberative Democracy, and Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Justin Eckstein (PhD, University of Denver) is an Associate Professor of Communication, Media, and Design Arts at Pacific Lutheran University and affiliated faculty in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. He wrote Sound Tactics (Penn State Press), co-edited a collection, Cookery (University of Alabama Press), and penned numerous peer-reviewed articles.
To read his new book on sound tactics (open access), see here. See here for the introduction to a recent special edition on argumentation and sound. And click here to read an open access article on the ways in which Belarusian activists used sound argumentatively.