Working on

• the embedded norms and values of algorithmic systems
• how computational tools impact knowledge production
• the role of data, algorithms and AI in production (use of computers in coffee roasting and more recently also personalized Artwork on Netflix).
• Datawalks: encouraging people to critically reflect on the impact of datafication on everyday life and realizing that data are material and situated

Relevant other positions

• Management Team Utrecht Data School
• Co-coordinator (with colleagues from Law) SIG ‘Principles by design’ [Focus Area Governing the Digital Society]
• Coordinator media track Applied Data Science
• Mediawijzer.net Scientific Advisory Board

Teaching

• coordinator new tracks “Critical Data Studies” & “Media, Data & Maatschappij” (these include courses Data as media, Infrastructures of Digital Cultures, Digital Methods, Rhetorics of Data Visualization, Platformsamenleving, Mediatisering & Dataficering)
• Teaching:
  • MsC Personalization for (public) media (in Applied Data Science program)
  • RMA Data-Driven Methods and Tools
  • BA Data as Media

Three relevant publications

• Gendered language & employment websites: How search algorithms can cause allocative harm (Commissioned Report for the College for Human Rights) Link
• Tool criticism & the computational turn: A methodological moment in media and communication studies
• Datawalking as research method