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Book Review: Combining the Legal and the Social in the Sociology of Law

Hydén, H., Cotterrell, R., Nelken, D., & Schultz, U. (Eds.). (2023). Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law: An Homage to Reza Banakar. Bloomsbury Academic. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61932 This review was originally published in the network magazine of the British Sociological Association (BSA). How do you review or even assess such a book, as […]

Democratic Algorithms is out!

I am happy to announce here that my book "Democratic Algorithms" got published. In the book, I discuss the making of an recommender algorithm in public broadcasting and ask: Can an algorithm be democratic? And how can we understand algorithms not only as technical, but also as social and political phenomena?

My PhD Thesis got awarded …

It has been some time allready, but better late then never to share some great news! Last year my dissertation Rule(s) of Recommendation got awarded with the STS Austria Early Career Award in the category PhD Thesis. I am very happy and grateful for this award. When I was starting my PhD – and after […]

Sensing In/Security: it is out!

Klimburg-Witjes, N., Pöchhacker, N., Bowker GC. (eds). (2021) Sensing In/Security. Sensors and the Making of Transnational Security Infrastructures. Mattering Press: Manchester, UK It has been some time since the last entry here. The last two years were rather busy – and this kinda unplanned end-of-the-world scenario did for sure not help. However, we have not […]

Talk: Big Data Policing in Canada

I am very excited to announce an invited talk by Thomas Linder (Surveillance Studies Centre, Queens University) on Big Data Policing in Canada as part of our Workshop on Risk Assessment and Computational Knowledge Production in Legal Systems. Really looking forward to this!

Messenger Security, Trust, & Infrastructures

Now it happened – I had to install WhatsApp. I opposed the idea of using this app for a long time now, but it is the only communication channel to a new community I just “entered”. And so I complained and then complied. However, installing yet another messenger triggers many different questions in regard to […]