talks

Invited Talks/Guest Lectures
2023

  • Algorithms in Public Welfare, Algorithms and Society (held by Christian Sandvig) at University of Michigan
  • Algorithmic Management of Unemployment, Policy and Politics of Government Algorithms (held by Ben Green) at University of Michigan

2022

  • “Constructing Certainty in Machine Learning: On the performativity of accuracy and its hold on the future”, Digital Age Research Center at University of Klagenfurt
  • “The politics of protest and labor strike prediction technologies in supply chain management and beyond”, Work Research Institute at Oslo Metropolitan University

2020

  • Algorithmic Job Seeker Profiling in Austria, Critical Theory of Media and Informatics (held by Katta Spiel) at TU Wien, Spring 2020


Conference Presentations
2023

  • How to teach the study of algorithms: Experiences from the field, With Fischer, F., Cech, F., Fassl, M., STS Conference Graz 2023
  • Constructing Certainty in Machine Learning: On the performativity of testing and its hold on the future, Data (Re)Makes the World conference of Information Society Project at Yale Law School, April 2023

2022

  • Making algorithms work: On the production of ignorance in the construction of accuracy measures in machine learning, 4s/ESOCITE Joint Meeting 2022
  • Risky Complaints: Unpacking recent trends in risk assessment across global supply chains, Graduate Research in STS (GRiSTS) 2022 Conference at Harvard University
  • Unpacking risk in unrest risk assessment across global supply chains, SASE 2022 - Panel “Digital Technologies and Working Conditions in Global Value Chains”
  • Constructing Certainty: The performativity of benchmarking and its hold on the future, EASST 2022
  • The politics of data in labor unrest risk assessment across global supply chains”, The 9th biennial Surveillance & Society conference of the Surveillance Studies Network
  • Unpacking the construction of labor risk in supply chain management, RAI 2022 (Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society) - Panel “AI and the new politics of supply chains"

2021

  • Disruptions as democratic participation: Problematizing technologies for predicting civil unrest, Data Justice Conference 2021
  • Repairing Online Harms: Assessing Punitive and Reparative Justice Approaches, With Schoenebeck, S., Alharbi, R., Im, J., Iriarte, M., Batool, A., Wilkinson, D., Gilbert, E., Funwie, A., Naseem, M., First Annual Conference of The Platform Governance Research Network

2020

  • Algorithmic Welfare: B¨urgerInnen-Profiling im Wohlfahrtsstaat, With Allhutter, D., Mager, A., Cech, F., Fischer, F., Momentum Kongress: Republik
  • Algorithmic profiling of job seekers in Austria: how to make austerity politics effective, With Fischer, F., Allhutter, D., Mager, A., Cech, F., Society for social studies of science - Annual Meeting 2020

2019

  • Algorithmic profiling of job seekers in Austria: how to make austerity politics effective, With Allhutter, D., Mager, A., Cech, F., Fischer, F., 4th European Technology Assessment Conference
  • The science of ”civil unrest prediction“ meets social media, With Sandvig, C., Society for social studies of science - Annual Meeting 2019


Summer/Winter Schools, Workshops and Reading Groups

  • ACM FAccT 2023 Doctoral Colloquium, Presented: “Contested Risk Assessments: Investigating the Politics of Unrest Detection and Prediction Software”, June 2023
  • Accountable Algorithms Reading Group, Presented: “Constructing Certainty in Machine Learning: On the performativity of accuracy and its hold on the future”, Northeastern University (US), Fall 2022
  • Algorithmic Reparations Workshop, University of Michigan (US), October 2022
  • Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, Technology and Policy During Times of Crisis, Presented: “Online Protest Made Risky: Unrest risk assessment across global supply chains”, University of Oxford (UK), August 2022
  • DigiGov Virtual Winter School, Taming the iMonster: Regulating digital platforms, Presented: “Contested Inferences on Social Media: The case of Emotion AI”, University of Vienna (AT), February 2022
  • Predictive Risk Intelligence Workshop, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (DE), December 2021
  • Crises of Vectorial Ecosystem Working Group, UCLA (US), 2021/22
  • Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar, Presented: “The science of ’civil unrest prediction’ meets social media”, Queen’s University (CA), June 2019


Public Speaking

  • Network Analysis on the Austrian Media Corpus at Vienna Long Night of Science (AT) April 2018
  • Algorithmic Fairness at Privacy Week 2017 (AT) October 2017
  • The politics of Algorithms at The Big Data Game, Steyr (AT) November 2016
  • Governing Algorithms made in Austria at Privacy Week 2016 (AT) October 2016