Areas of Interest: social, organizational, and ethical aspects of data-driven technologies; audit cultures, esp. scoring, rating, ranking schemes; everyday governance and regulation; ethnomethodology; ethnography
About
Malte Ziewitz studies the changing role of data-driven technologies in establishing, maintaining, and subverting social order. An ethnographer and STS scholar, his recent work looked at the lived experience of credit scoring subjects, the search engine optimization (SEO) industry, and attempts at algorithmic regulation.
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Research areas
Infrastructure Studies
Ethics, Law and Policy
Location
313 Morrill Hall
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Faculty (Field)
Information Science