My research is concerned with search engine politics, datafication of public sectors, algorithmic systems & bias, the global information economy and local socio-political cultures, critical theory, internet governance in Europe, alternative tech and open source communities, as well as science & technology studies (STS) more generally.<\/p>\n
Currently, I’m working as a Senior Academy Scientist at the Institute of Technology Assessment<\/a> (ITA) in Vienna\/ Austrian Academy of Sciences and as a lecturer at the Department of Science and Technology Studies<\/a>, University of Vienna. I recently finished the project “Algorithmic Imaginaries. Visions & values in the shaping of search engines” (funded by the FWF; Elise Richter Program<\/a>; project number: V511-G29). A short summary can be found on the ITA website<\/a>. The project resulted in a cumulative “habilitation” and a range of peer-reviewed journal articles.The habilitation is submitted and the process is ongoing at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna.<\/p>\n I also finished a project on the so-called AMS Algorithm with the title: “Socio-technical analysis of the so called \u201cAMS-algorithm\u201d of the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS)” (together with Doris Allhutter and colleagues from the Technical University of Vienna); more infos can be found at the ITA website<\/a>. This project triggered a lot of attention in the Austrian media and policy circles, as well as in academia. This is why a larger follow-up project started last year as part of the FWF funding scheme CHANSE (project number: FWF I 6075). The project “Automating Welfare” is coordinated by Anne Kaun (Sweden) and aims at a comparison of datafication and automation attempts in public sectors across Europe, as well as communical projects on a city level, for example. The Austrian team constist of Doris Allhutter, Rafaela Cavalcanti de Alc\u00e2ntara, and me; more infos here<\/a>. Moreover, I’m involved in a couple of activities as part of the Young Academy<\/a> of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, such as the AGIDE project <\/a>(Academies for Global Innovation and Digital Ethics, headed by \u00d6AW division president Christiane Wendehorst) that is going to end in spring 2024 with a public event (more infos will follow).<\/p>\n Previously, I was leading the project “GLOCAL SEARCH. Search technology at the intersection of global capitalism and local socio-political cultures” (funded by the Jubil\u00e4umsfonds of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), <\/em>project number 14702)<\/em> at ITA. Check out the abstract<\/a> on the ITA website. These articles have been published as part of the project so far: Defining Algorithmic Ideology, TripleC<\/em> (2014), Is small really beautiful?, in: Society of the Query Reader<\/em> (2014); Ideologie des Algorithmus, in: Die Googleisierung der Informationssuche (2014), <\/em>Search engine imaginary: Visions & values in the co-production on search technology and Europe, Social Studies of Science<\/em> (2016); see publications. Here’s a short video showing my work on Algorithmic Ideology (recorded at the Digital Labor Conference, NYC, November 2014):<\/p>\n