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Digital Humanism Conference<\/a>, 24-26 June 2026, Vienna (A): Session “From Pessimism to Promise” (co-organized with Katja Mayer).\u00a0<\/p>\n Data Care Festival<\/a> “Reclaiming Techno-Optimism. Building for Context. Culture. Community”, 9-12 June 2026, Utrecht\/ Amsterdam (NL): Sessions Situated AI Ethics and field trip to The Hague: Behind the Scenes of AI (co-organized with Mirko Tobias Sch\u00e4fer, Data School, Utrecht Univ.)<\/p>\n Automating Suspicion: Algorithmic welfare surveillance and the making of welfare fraudster, Data Justice Conference<\/a>, 1-2 June 2026, Cardiff University (UK).<\/p>\n Situating AI. From hegemonic AI ethics to infrastructures of hope grounded in real-world contexts and concerns, 4-6 May 2026, STS Graz Conference <\/a>(A).<\/p>\n Situated Ethics: How to Respect Local Perspectives in Global AI Ethics, ETAC6\/ GlobalTA Conference<\/a>, 2-4 June 2025, \u00d6AW\/ Vienna (A).<\/p>\n Mind Scripting: Exploring Practices and Values of Welfare Fraud Detection, ETAC6\/ GlobalTA Conference<\/a>, 2-4 June 2025, \u00d6AW\/ Vienna (A); together with Doris Allhutter.<\/p>\n Infrastructuring openness. Practices and politics of opening government data for creating public value, STS Graz<\/a>, 5-7 May 2025, Graz (A).<\/p>\n Spotlighting human labor in algorithmic organizational practices and its policy implications, Automating Welfare: Policy Implications of AI in the Digital Welfare States<\/a>, 10 April 2025, Warsaw (PL).<\/p>\n Mager, Astrid (03.12.2024) \u00d6AW Gender & Diversity Lecture “KI und Geschlecht im \u00f6ffentlichen Leben, 3 December 2025, \u00d6AW\/Vienna (A).<\/p>\n Emergent Data Infrastructures in Public Health Insurance: how the tech-industry\u2019s profit-driven techniques mold public sector governmentality, AOIR conference<\/a>, 30 October-2 November 2024, Sheffield (UK); together with Doris Allhutter.<\/p>\n Communal Infrastructures of Welfare: public value, data extractivism and data justice, ECREA conference<\/a>, 24-27 September, Ljubljana (together with Doris Allhutter & Rafaela Cavalcanti de Alc\u00e2ntara).<\/p>\n Ars Electronica workshop Data for the People<\/a>, 7 October 2024, Linz (A); together with Doris Allhutter.<\/p>\n Data power in the public sector. How data are used to exercise power in public health insurance, Data Power Conference<\/a>, 6 September 2024, Graz & Bangalore (A\/IND); together with Doris Allhutter.<\/p>\n Infrastructures of welfare. Narratives and counter-narratives of data infrastructures in the context of public health insurance and open commons, Big Data Discourses Conference<\/a>, 2 February 2024, Leipzig (D).<\/p>\n Automating Welfware: How to open up, re-imagine, and rebuild data infrastructures for the public good, STS Austria Conference (Panel Open Infrastructures<\/a>), Austrian Academy of Sciences, 28 November 2023, Vienna (A).<\/p>\n Algorithmic systems in public administration. The AMS Algorithm (AMAS) and its sociotechnical implications, RingVO Governing Inclusion and Exclusion in Digital Societies<\/a>, 6 November 2023, Vienna (A); together with Fabian Fischer.<\/p>\n Keynote #2: Europ\u00e4ische Suche? Vom Datenkapitalismus zur Suchmaschinen-Diversit\u00e4t, Forum Privatheit 2023: Data Sharing \u2013 Datenkapitalismus by Default?<\/a>, 5 October 2023, Berlin (D).<\/p>\n Machtfaktor Infrastruktur: Von Informationshegemonien zu pluralen Suchmaschinenlandschaften in Europa, RingVO Digitalisierung und Internationalisierung<\/a>, 26 June 2023, Innsbruck (A).<\/span><\/p>\n Europ\u00e4ische Such-Infrastruktur? Von Informationshegemonien zu pluralen Suchmaschinenlandschaften, TA Jahrestagung<\/a>, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 6 June 2023, Vienna (A).<\/p>\n CHANSE kick-off conference<\/a>, 1-2 June 2023, Tallinn (Estonia).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n How to counter-act hegemonic search with European search projects \u201cgrowing in the ruins scalability leaves behind\u201d, 4S\/ESOCITE conference<\/a>, 7-10 December 2022, Cholula (Mexico).<\/p>\n Search for social change<\/span>. How<\/span> to rethink and rebuild<\/span> digital futures with European<\/span> search <\/span>engines\/<\/span> infrastructures devoted to the public good, MOMENTUM Kongress<\/a>, <\/span><\/span>13-16 October 2022, Hallstatt (A).<\/p>\n Marginalized search. How to counter-act hegemonic search with alternative search projects from Europe, AOIR conference, 2-5 November 2022, Dublin (IR).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Panel discussion \u201cDigital Humanism & Democracy\u201d organized by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF); Digi Days, 20 October 2022, Vienna.<\/p>\n Alternative Search. Envisioning and encoding social justice in European search infrastructures, EASST conference<\/a>, 6-9 July 2022, Madrid (ES).<\/p>\n How to counter<\/span><\/span>–<\/span><\/span>act hegemonic search with <\/span><\/span>alternative search projects from Europe, International Digital Security Forum<\/a>, 1 June 2022, Vienna (A). Algorithmic Imaginaries. Visions and values in the shaping of search engines, Digital Humanities lecture series, 17 May 2022, University of Vienna (A).<\/p>\n Lecture “Algorithmic Imaginaries” & panel discussion<\/a>, 12 April 2022, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (A).<\/p>\n \u201eAlgorithmische Imaginationen. Von der kapitalistischen Ideologie zur Suchmaschinen-Diversit\u00e4t?<\/a>\u201c, 22 Feburary^2022, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna (A).<\/p>\n Panel discussion “Bias-free Algorithmic Decision-Making: A Utopian Idea?”, 3 February 2022, University of Linz. (cancelled)<\/p>\n “Digital Technologies and Labour Market Policy: the AMS Algorithm<\/b>“, lecture at Ringvorlesung Governing Algorithms<\/a>, Department of Political Sciences, University of Vienna, 13 December 2021 (together with Florian Cech).<\/p>\n Preconference: Momentum Young Research Workshop<\/a>, Hallstatt, 14 October 2021 (together with Thomas Gegenhuber).<\/p>\n \u201eEncoding social change? Analysis of open search technology between German hacker ethics and Asian start-up culture\u201c, 3rd Internatinal Open Search Symposium<\/a>, virtual CERN, 12 October 2021.<\/p>\n “Encoding Freedom: Analysis of open search technology between German hacker ethics and Asian start-up culture”, 4S conference<\/a>, virtual Toronto, 6-9 October 2021.<\/p>\n Keynote @ Lund University, Search Symposium, Lund (SE), 16-17 September 2021.<\/p>\n “Rolle von Algorithmen bei Arbeitssuche und Vermittlung, Beispiel AMS Algorithmus”, IHS, Vienna (A), 16 June 2021.<\/p>\n “Auf zu neuen Ufern? Analyse von alternativen Suchmaschinen und deren Imaginationen von demokratischen digitalen Zuk\u00fcnften”, TA21 & NTA9<\/a>, virtual Vienna, 11 May 2021.<\/p>\n “Coping with the Covid-19 crisis”, panel discussion, virtual \u00d6AW Joint Academy Day, 18 March 2021; video available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Algorithmen – Freund oder Feind?”, panel discussion, Wiener Zeitung, 28 January 2021, video available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Algorithmic Welfare: B\u00fcrgerInnen-Profiling im Wohlfahrtsstaat” (together with Doris Allhutter, Florian Cech, Fabian Fischer, Gabriel Grill), <\/strong><\/b><\/b>Momentum Kongress: Republik<\/a>, virtual, 16 October 2020.<\/b><\/p>\n “Ask<\/b> Susi! <\/b>Analyzing<\/b> open <\/b>search<\/b>technology<\/b>between<\/b> German <\/b>hacker<\/b>ethics<\/b>and<\/b> Asian <\/b>start-up<\/b>culture”<\/b>, Momentum Kongress: Republik<\/a>, virtual, 16 October 2020.<\/p>\n “How to create your own AI device with SUSI.AI – An open source platform for conversational web<\/a>“, workshop @ Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (A), 11 September 2020 (together with Hong-Phuc Dang).<\/p>\n “Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified<\/a>” @ 4S\/EASST conference 2020, virtual Prague (CZ), 19 August 2020 (together with C. Katzenbach).<\/p>\n “Algorithmic profiling of job seekers in Austria: How austerity politics are made effective<\/a>” @ 4S\/EASST conference 2020, virtual Prague (CZ), 18 August 2020 (together with D. Allhutter, F. Cech, F. Fischer & G. Grill).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “How to push back hegemonic search? Analyzing alternative imaginaries in search engine design and their potential to contribute to more open digital futures<\/a>” @ 4S\/EASST conference 2020, virtual Prague (CZ), 18 August 2020.<\/p>\n Live radio broadcast “Das eingef\u00e4rbte Fenster zu Welt<\/a>” @ \u00d61 Punkt Eins (A), 5 December 2019. “Algorithmen, Daten und Netzwerke” @ <\/span>Tagung: Wiener Netzwerke 1920 – 1970 – 2020; Museumsquartier Vienna (A), 16 November 2019. “Data protection is a fundamental right. Examining sociotechnical imaginaries of search engines and Europe”, keynote @ d<\/span>igital society research day, Maastricht (NL), 15 November 2019. Contribution to the panel discussion “Occupy Internet. Der “gute” Algorithmus<\/a>“, ORF Radiokulturhaus Vienna (A), 13 November 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n “Algorithmic profiling of job seekers in Austria: how to make austerity politics effective” @ 4th European Technology Assessment Conference<\/a>, Bratislava (SK), 4 November 2019 (t<\/span>ogether with D. Allhutter, F. Cech, F. Fischer & G. Grill). “Wearables, Selbstvermessung und Fitnessapps und m\u00f6gl. Herausforderungen f\u00fcr die Gesundheitsbildung” @ <\/span>Digitalisierung \u2013 Medien \u2013 Bildung: Was bedeutet Digitalisierung f\u00fcr die Erwachsenenbildung? Vienna (A), 14 October 2019. “Alternative search engines as drivers for social change?”<\/span> @ Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval <\/a>conference, Hamburg (D), 26 April 2019.<\/p>\n “Where is SUSI in the AI?” workshop @ FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit<\/a>, Singapore (SGP), 18 March 2019.<\/p>\n “Visions and values in European search engine design<\/a>” @ TU Wien (A), 21 January 2019<\/p>\n “Body data \u2013 data body. Tracing ambiguous trajectories of data bodies between empowerment and social control in the context of Health”, workshop Digital Data(-fication) @ University of Vienna (A), 17 December 2018 (together with Katja Mayer).<\/p>\n “Algorithmen, Daten und Ideologien. Zur Analyse von sozio-technischen Praktiken in der Gestaltung von (alternativen) Suchmaschinen”, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung<\/a> @ TU Berlin (D), 15 November 2018.<\/p>\n Selbst vermessen \u2013 fremd gesteuert @ Momentum Kongress 2018: Klasse, Hallstatt (A), 18-21 October (together with Katja Mayer).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Social innovation. Alternative search engines as drivers for social change? @ STS Austria Conference: Innovation and Societal Transformation: Science, Democracy, and Sustainable Futures, Klagenfurt (A), 17-19 September 2018.<\/p>\n “<\/a>Data protection is a fundamental right in Europe”. Examining sociotechnical imaginaries of search engines and a European identity<\/a> @ EASST2018: Meetings – Making Science, Technology and Society together, Lancaster University, UK, 25-28 July 2018.<\/p>\n “Technikforschung als Gesellschaftskritik? Analyse der Rolle von Normativit\u00e4t in meiner Forschung zu alternativen Suchmaschinen” @ TA18: Technikfolgenabsch\u00e4tzung und Normativit\u00e4t \u2013 An welchen Werten orientiert sich TA?<\/a>, Vienna, 11 June 2018.<\/p>\n Invited talk “Algorithmic Imaginaries” @ Ethics in Information Technology, University of Hamburg, 28 May 2018. (thanks to Judith Simon<\/a> for the organization!)<\/p>\n Brown Bag Lunch talk “Algorithmic Imaginaries<\/a>” @ HIIG, 16 May 2018.<\/p>\n Workshop “We are on a mission. Exploring the role of future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology<\/a>” (organized together with Christian Katzenbach) @ HIIG Berlin, 27 April 2018.<\/p>\n Invited talk “Algorithmic Imaginaries. Vision and values in the shaping of search engines” @ Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, 19 April 2018. (thanks to Claudia M\u00fcller-Birn<\/a> for organizing this!)<\/p>\n 34c3 Kongress<\/a>, Leipzig, 27-30 December 2017.<\/p>\n Beitrag zum Workshop “Open Search Infrastructure”, Munich, 16 November 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201eAlgorithmische Imaginationen. Visionen und Werte in der Ko-Produktion von Suchtechnologie und Europa<\/a>\u201c @ Japanologische Fachtagung, Vienna, 11 November 2017.<\/p>\n “Momentum Young Research”, pre-conference workshop @ Momentum Kongress<\/a>, Hallstatt,\u00a019 October 2017 (together with Leo Dobusch).<\/p>\n Elektronische Person, Governance-by-Design & Co., ExpertInnen Workshop & \u00f6ffentliche Podiumsdiskussion “Verantwortungsvolle Automatisierung”<\/a> @ \u00d6AW, Vienna, 2 October 2017.<\/p>\n “(Un)Making Europe in the Context of Search Engine Policy” @ European Sociological Association conference<\/a>, Athens, 1 September 2017.<\/p>\n “Biofeedback. Good bot and bad bot”, performance @\u00a0Liquid Music FIN\/2<\/a>, Wies, 9 June 2017 (together with Katja Mayer).<\/p>\n “Suschmaschinen in Europa. Europ\u00e4ische Suchmaschinen?”, presentation @ Netzpolitischer Abend<\/a>, Vienna, 2 March, 2017.<\/p>\n “Search for Serendipity”, round table discussion, Vienna (Malzgasse 12a), 15 November 2016: 6pm<\/p>\n “Momentum Young Research”, pre-conference workshop @ Momentum Kongress<\/a>, Hallstatt,\u00a013 October 2016 (together with Elke Sch\u00fc\u00dfler)<\/p>\n “Search engine imaginary. Visions and values in the co-production of search technology and Europe”\u00a0@ AoIR pre-conference workshop “The Internet Rules, But How? A Science and Technology Studies Take on Doing Internet Governance<\/a>\u201d, Berlin, 5 October 2016<\/p>\n Panel “ICTs and power relations. Present dilemmas and future perspectives” (together with Doris Allhutter & Stefan Strauss) @ IS4IS Summit Vienna<\/a>, Vienna, 3-7 June 2015<\/p>\n “Europa gegen Google & Co?<\/a>“, Pr\u00e4sentation der Projektergebnisse “Glocal Search” (OeNB), Austrian Academy of Sciences, 23.o4.2015<\/p>\n “Alternative Suchmaschinen und deren Ideologien” @ Buchpr\u00e4sentation: Anton Tantner: Die ersten Suchmaschinen. Adressb\u00fcros, Frag\u00e4mter, Intelligenz-Comptoirs<\/a>“, University of Vienna, 25.03.2015<\/p>\n “Search engine governance at the intersection of global, European, and local contexts” @ Tag der Politikwissenschaft<\/a>, Vienna, 28-29 November 2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “Digital labor, capitalist ideology, and alternative future” @ digital labor conference<\/a>, NYC, 14-16 November<\/p>\n “Momentum Young Research”, pre conference workshop @ Momentum Kongress<\/a>, 16 October, Hallstatt (together with Leonhard Dobusch)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “The absence and presence of “the state” in sociotechnical imaginaries of search engines” @ EASST conference<\/a>, Torun\/ Poland, 17-19 September 2014<\/p>\n “Google media coverage in the context of EU data protection reform” @ STS Conference 2014 ‘Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies’, Panel ‘The Politics of ICTs’, Graz\/ Austria, 5-6 May 2014<\/p>\n “Is small really beautiful? Big search and its alternatives” @ Society of the Query #2<\/a>, Amsterdam, 7-8 November 2013; blog post & video here<\/a><\/p>\n Moderation of the track \u201ctechnology and regulation\u201d @ Momentum 13 symposium<\/a>, Hallstatt\/ Austria, 17-20 October 2013<\/p>\n Panel “Social Media in der Politarena<\/a>” @ \u00d6sterreichische Medientage, Stadthalle Wien, 24-26 September 2013<\/p>\n “M\u00e4chtige Netze – Vernetzte Macht” @ Paraflows Festival<\/a>, Vienna, MQ, Raum D, 13-15 September 2013<\/p>\n “\u00d6sterreichischer Netzkonvent – Forderungen und Ergebnisse<\/a>” @ Daten. Netz. Politik 13, Kabelwerk Vienna, 14-15 September 2013; video available on their website.<\/p>\n Wir: Der Souver\u00e4n<\/a>, Vienna, K\u00fcnstlerhaus Passagegalerie, 11 September 2013<\/p>\n Participation in the book launch<\/a> “Vor Google. Eine Mediengeschichte der Suchmaschine im analogen Zeitalter”, Vienna, 9 April 2013, 7pm, Lesesaal der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Eingang Lichtenfelsgasse 2, Stiege 6 (Lift), 1. Stock<\/p>\n “User Profiling. Wie globale Unternehmen aus lokalen Daten Profit schlagen” @ EBC\/ APA<\/a>, Vienna, 26 July 2012 – pics<\/a> & press<\/a>.<\/p>\n Issue Mapping Online Workshop<\/a>, London, 22 May 2012<\/p>\n \u201cDefining Algorithmic Ideology: Using ideology theories to understand and critique corporate search engines\u201d @ Critical Social Media\/Information Society Conference<\/a>, Uppsala, 2-4 May 2012<\/p>\n “Suchmaschinen im Spannungsfeld von globaler Informations\u00f6konomie und lokaler Gesellschaftspolitik”, Themenabend Black Box Suchmaschine<\/a>, 25.4.2012, Museumsquartier, Raum D, Wien. Link zum Video Archiv <\/a>der Veranstaltung (organisiert gemeinsam mit Ren\u00e9 K\u00f6nig).<\/p>\n \u201cThe performative character of digital methods\u201d @ OII conference \u201cInterdisciplinary Insights on the Social Science of Digital Research<\/a>\u201d, Oxford, 12 March 2012<\/p>\n Unlike Us. Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives<\/a>, Amsterdam, 8-10 March (no talk)<\/p>\n “Google & user profiling” @ Geek Girl Meetup Ume\u00e5<\/a>, 14 December 2011, Caf\u00e9 Station: 16h-18h<\/p>\n Workshop “Studying digital cultures \u2013 tools and methods<\/a>“, organized by Lund University’s Humanities Laboratory, the Humanities Experiment Group (HEX), and the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund, 24 November 2011<\/p>\n Lecture on “Digital Methods” in Olof Sundin<\/a>‘s seminar on Research Methods, Lund, 23 November 2011: 9h-12h<\/p>\n Lecture @ USSTE<\/a> seminar “BIOFUELS IN PUBLIC SPHERES: How old and new media shape the biofuel controversy under the influence of technoscientific marketing” (together with Jenny Ekl\u00f6f <\/a>in Ume\u00e5, 8 November 13.00-14.30<\/p>\n Inauguration symposium of the new research institute \u201cInternet and Society<\/a>\u201d in Berlin, 25-28 October<\/p>\n Presentation @ symposium Knowledge Machines between Freedom and Control<\/a>, IMA Institut fuer Medienarcheologie, Hainburg, 6-7 October 2011<\/p>\n “Search Engines in Society” @ Social Media Cultures<\/a> workshop, HUMlab, 26-28 September 2011<\/p>\n “Algorithmic Ideology: How capitalist society shapes search engines”, @ conference A Decade in Internet Time<\/a>, OII\/ Oxford, 21-24 September 2011<\/p>\n Lecture @ Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology Vienna: Economy – Markets – Organizations: The Culture of modern Economy<\/a>, University of Vienna, 11-16 July 2011<\/p>\n
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