Blake Hallinan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and affiliated with the ERC-funded DigitalValues project directed by Prof. Limor Shifman. They study the politics of classification and evaluation on digital platforms, including how recommendation systems determine relevance, how social media measures civility, and how artists adapt to engagement metrics. Their new project investigates how users make sense of and contest algorithmic governance.

At the Hebrew University, Hallinan teaches classes on technology and society, public speaking, and academic writing.