Maria Eriksson is a media scholar who studies the history and politics of everyday digital technologies. Her research is located at the intersection of software studies, media archaeology, social anthropology, and science and technology studies and focuses on the interplay between culture and technology.

Since May 2019, She is visiting the Departement Künste, Medien, Philosophie at Universität Basel, where she teaches and conducts research at the Seminar für Medienwissenschaft. Currently, she is involved in the research project Modern Times 1936, which aims to explore and critique how artificial intelligence interprets historic sources.