Here’s my book review of Helga Nowotny’s book In AI We Trust, which just came out in German – “ asked me to write a review as part of their AI special issue, which I gladly did! It’s titled ..read more

Everyone interested in open/ing digital knowledge infrastructures should consider submitting to our call – deadline is 31 January 2024. The book will be co-edited by and me and is going to be open access – everything else would be ridiculous given the topic! We’re currently negotiating with De Gruyter.. are all the infos you need ..read more

Letzte Woche war ich zur Abwechslung mal bei Jugendradio! Fein wars!! Mit Dank an für die Einladung! Interview und Podcast zum Nachhören gibts hier ..read more

If you’d like to get a flavour of my project “Algorithmic Imaginaries” you might watch of the lecture I gave in Feburary as part of the ÖAW’s gender & diversity lecture series (in German). This lecture sparked quite some media attention including a cover in Der Standard’s “Forschung Spezial” we’ll discuss Google, surveillance capitalism, and discrimination; moderated by . All infos and registration on-site can be found ; there’ll be a stream too! . I’m already looking forward to this get-together ..read more

starts, albeit virtually. It’s the first ZOOM conference I’m attending at this scale and I’m really curious how that will work out! I’m involved in three sessions: If you’re registered for the conference you can find the links to the ZOOM meetings right next to the sessions ..read more

to my Standard blog post on COVID-19 & digitalization (in German); the teaser reads as follows: E-Learning-Plattformen und Videokonferenz-Tools haben sich in unserem Alltag eingenistet. Kaum ein Haushalt, der sich dem noch entziehen kann. Dennoch dürfen grundlegende technopolitische Fragen nicht aus den Augen verloren werden ..read more

The special issue I guest-edited together with is going to be (finally) published in February 2021. I’d like to thank for his support throughout this rather long, but finally rewarding process. It’s a pity SAGE won’t publish an online first version of the articles, but well, they apparently agreed to do so for future special issues, which I’d highly appreciate!!! Thanks also to all our authors for their fine contributions and their patience! If you’d like to read our editorial “Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified” I’d like to p ..read more

Allhutter, D., Cech, F., Fischer, F., Grill, G. & Mager, A. (2020) “Algorithmic Profiling of Job Seekers in Austria: How Austerity Politics Are Made Effective”, – argued in our report. We’d like to thank the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor (AK OÖ) (all in German). The final report is in German, but english publications will (hopefully) follow SOON! For now I’d like to point you to the english publications in New Frontiers in Big Data that we published a year ago (only based on publicly available materials back then, but still relevant in its argumentation): for his support throught the pro ..read more

und ich haben einen Beitrag für den Blog zu unserer Studie zum sogenannten “AMS-Algorithmus” verfasst (auf dt.). Der Blog Post ist die Studie (gemeinsam mit Florian Cech, Fabian Fischer und Gabriel Grill) ist . Aus Platzgründen konnte das im Blog Post verwendete “Szenario” einer fiktiven Arbeitssuchenden – Shifteh A. – leider nicht zur Gänze abgebildet werden. Deshalb möchte ich es hier veröffentlichen: Nachdem wir im Rahmen unserer Studie weder einen direkten Zugang zu AMAS (Arbeitsmarkt-Chancen-Assistenzsystem), noch zu den dafür verwendeten Daten hatten sind die Berechnungen des Szenarios f ..read more

to the video documentary of past year’s Ars Electronica event “ How to become a high-tech anti-discrimination activist collective ” that was co-organized with the Johannes Kepler University in Linz (A). Both my colleague Doris Allhutter and me organized a workshop as part of this bigger event. My workshop was concerned with AI technology and open source alternatives: “How to create your own AI device with SUSI.AI – An Open Source Platform for Conversational Web”. It was a great opportunity to catch up with my co-workshop leader (one of my case studies of my current search engine project; see r ..read more