Ab heute vertrete ich die Professur für Medien, Algorithmen und Gesellschaft in Paderborn. Das wird ein spannendes Semester…
Start in Paderborn
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Talk at The New School: Privacy and Autonomy
On Thursday, March 30, I’ll present my research on privacy at The New School Thursday Night Philosophy Workshop.
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Is there a right to offline alternatives?
At CPDP last year we discussed whether there should be a right to offline alternatives to networked devices and services. My colleagues from the Forum Privacy and I have written a paper following the discussion which is contained in the volume Data Protection and Privacy: (In)visibilities and Infrastructures that just has been published.
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Paderborn!
Direkt nach meiner Rückkehr aus New York geht es gleich spannend weiter: Im kommenden Sommersemester vertrete ich die Professur für Algorithmen, Medien und Gesellschaft in Paderborn!
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Ethics and Politics of Algorithms
I’ve published a short piece that discusses the ethics and politics of algorithms beyond the concern for transparency and scrutiny, which currently is at the center of public debates. I add some points, which are discussed among researchers but that often get too little attention.
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New Paper in Surveillance & Society
My new paper in Surveillance & Society has just been published. Here is the abstract:
The article discusses problems of representative views of data and elaborates a concept of the performativity of data. It shows how data used for surveillance contributes in creating suspect subjectivities. In particular, the article focuses on the inductive or explorative processing of data and on the decoupling of data generation and analysis that characterize current use of data for surveillance. It lines out several challenges this poses to established accounts of surveillance: David Lyon’s concept of surveillance as social sorting and Haggerty and Ericson’s “surveillant assemblage”. These problems are attributed to a representationalist view, which focuses on the veracity of data. This can lead to ignoring problematic consequences of surveillance procedures and the full scope of affected persons. Building on an idea by Rita Raley, an alternative account of data as performative is proposed. Using Judith Butler’s concept of “citationality,” this account shows how surveillance is entangled with the production of subjects through data in general. Surveillance is reformulated as a particular way in which subjects are produced that is parasitical to other forms of subjectivation.
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New York!
For the coming 10 months I will be in New York as visiting scholar at the New School. I’m looking forward to a great time and lots of interesting academic collaborations.
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Kooptiertes Mitglied in Passau
Seit heute bin ich kooptiertes Mitglied des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs “Privatheit” in Passau und freue mich auf die Zusammenarbeit!
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On twitter
Due to repeated requests, I’ve now got a twitter acount: @t_matzner. Initially it will mirror or link to the updates on this site and then we’ll see how it develops. But all important information will continue to be posted also here in the federation and open-standard feed friendly manner of blogs.
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Workshop: Das Vermittelte und das Unvermittelte
Zusammen mit Jessica Heesen organisiere ich kommenden Montag in Tübingen einen Workshop zur Medienethik mit dem Thema “Das Vermittelte und das Unvermittelte — Herausforderungen für mediale Öffentlichkeiten”. Hier ist das Programm. Anmeldung per Mail bei mir.
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