events
Peer-reviewed presentations at academic events
2023
Conspiracy theories and misinformation in digital media: A Delphi study assessing current challenges, problematic developments, and potential countermeasures (with D. Mahl, S. H. Kessler, M. Schäfer, J. Zeng & F. Georgi) International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada. 29.05.2023
Herausforderungen, Trends, Massnahmen: Eine Delphi-Studie zu Verschwörungstheorien und Fehlinformation in digitalen Medien [Challenges, Trends, Countermeasures: A Delphy Study about conspiracy theories and misinformation in digital media] (with D. Mahl, S. H. Kessler, M. Schäfer, J. Zeng & F. Georgi) 68. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschafte (DGPuK23), Bremen, Germany. 19.05.2023
2022
Informedness, Information Behaviours and Information Deficits Related to COVID-19 and Prevention Measures in Switzerland (with S. H. Kessler & F. Georgi). European communication conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Aarhus, Denmark. October 2022
Communicating AI policy: how technology comes to matter in media (with L. Liebig & C. Katzenbach).
International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France. May 30, 2022
Shaping AI – Imaginaries and Controversies of AI in Media and Policy (with C. Katzenbach, V. Richter & L. Liebig).
Imagining AI & the Human Conf: Artificial Intelligence and the Human. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction, Berlin, May 12, 2022
2021
An analysis of Swiss people’s subjectively perceived misinformation regarding the novel coronavirus (with S. H. Kessler, F. Georgi).
European Conference on Health Communication (ECHC). Amsterdam, Netherlands (online). Nov 4, 2021.
AI Federalism: Shaping AI Policy within States (with L. Güttel).
Digital Democracy Workshop. Zurich, Switzerland. Oct 28, 2021
Shaping AI: Who’s afraid of big methodological, historical, political questions? (roundtable, with N. Marres, J. Robèrge, M. Castelle, C. Katzenbach, F. McKelvey, D. Ricci, P. N. Edwards, M.-J. Meurs, M. Tironi, G. Danduran).
4S Conference. Toronto, Canada (online). Oct 6, 2021
Citizen science in a connected world: Ethical issues with using Internet of Things devices (with J. Scheibner).
CitSci Helvetia. Zurich, Switzerland (online). Jan 15, 2021
2020
Capturing ‘Life’: The convergence of technology and health for profit.
Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Dublin, Ireland (online). October 2020.
Algorithms and their discontents: making the global work locally.
EASST + 4S Joint Conference. virPrague (online). August 2020.
2017
Advertisers and algorithms: translating between tradition and technology.
Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Tartu, Estonia. Oct 19, 2017.
Algorithms, Words and Valuation.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Boston (MA), USA. Aug 31, 2017.
Online advertising, algorithms, and intermediaries.
Theorizing the Web. New York City (NY), USA. April 7, 2017.
2016
La mémoire kaléidoscopique : l’histoire au prisme des algorithmes d'autocomplétion [The kaleidoscopic memory: history as seen through algorithms of autocompletion].
Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences. Lausanne, Switzerland. June 9, 2016.
Year in search: relevance and limitations.
Theorizing the Web. New York City (NY), USA. April 15, 2016.
An imaginary algorithmic public: How media report on search query metrics.
Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Phoenix (AR), USA. October 22, 2015.
2015
Zeitgeist is as Zeitgeist does: the performativity of algorithmic ranking charts.
Early Stage Researchers Colloquium on Internet and Society. Berlin, Germany. September 24, 2015.
Faiseurs d'algorithmes malgré eux: les contributeurs de Google Search et le 'digital labor' [Involuntary algorithm makers: contributors of Google Search and digital labor].
Swiss Sociological Association Congress. Lausanne, Switzerland. June 5, 2015.
2014
Are Google's linguistic prosthesis biased towards commercially more interesting expressions? A preliminary study on the linguistic effects of autocompletion algorithms (with F. Kaplan).
International annual conference of Digital Humanities. Lincoln (NE), USA. July 17-19, 2013.
2013
Research Notes: Information demand about the US presidential candidates in Switzerland. Investigating information retrieval via the Google AdWords platform.
International workshop on Just-in-time Sociology. EPFL, Switzerland. December 4, 2012.
Academic conference posters
Big data and the individual: locating agency in interaction with algorithms.
Research day of the Social and Political Science Faculty. Lausanne University, Switzerland. November 5, 2015.
Researching interaction with algorithms: advertisers and Google AdWords.
Doctoriales UNIL. Lausanne University, Switzerland. December 14, 2014.
Interacting with Algorithms. Advertisers and Google AdWords.
Swiss National Science Foundation: Swiss Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Day. Bern, Switzerland. October 21, 2013.
Algorithms and Agency: the Commodification of Words by Advertisers and Google AdWords.
Research day of the Social and Political Science Faculty. Lausanne University, Switzerland. October 31, 2013
Keynote presentations
When Media Comes To Matter. Annual Conference of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM). University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. April 19, 2024
Künstliche Intelligenz und die Illusion der Neutralität [Artificial Intelligence and the illusion of neutrality]. Ulmer Denkanstösse. Stadthaus Ulm, Germany. March 21, 2024
The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines. Digital Discourses: Humanity in the Age of AI. Goethe Institut Jakarta, Indonesia. October 6, 2023
What bias? Whose bias? A multi-level perspective on data and Artificial Intelligence.
Data Science Initiative BeDSI, Universit of Bern, Switzerland. Oct 31, 2022
Challenges in AI Policy: Learning from soft law perspectives.
BRAGFOST. Maceió Atlantic, Brazil, July 1, 2022
Principles in Ethics Guidelines & Policy Perspectives.
EELISA Summer School "AI, Ethics, and Human Rights", Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. June 6, 2022
AI Ethics and Sustainability.
Annual International Symposium 2022: Digital Ethics for a Sustainable Society.
Center for Digital Ethics & Policy, Loyola University Chicago (IL), USA, March 30, 2022
Transparency & openness in AI ethics.
CH Open Networking-Dinner. Bern, Switzerland. November 25, 2021.
Was ist KI? Eine Übersicht zu Technologie, Hype und Ethik [What is AI? An overview of the technology, the hype, and the ethics].
KI-Parlamentarierdinner. Bern, Switzerland. June 6, 2021.
What AI ethics can do (and what it can’t).
Machine Learning Day. Arizona State University, Tempe (AZ), USA. April 9, 2021.
Technological innovations and social values. APARIUZ (2nd edition).
Faculty of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland. March 3, 2021
Digital ethics.
Hack4SocialGood. Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. December 11, 2020
Digital governance: how to be inclusive?
#GovAfterShock. Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland. November 11, 2020.
Freedom in the digital era.
Krise der Sozialdemokratie, Krise der Freiheit? – Brennpunkt Digitalisierung [Social democracy in crisis, freedom in crisis? – Focal point digitization]. Progr, Bern, Switzerland. September 21, 2020.
Die gesellschaftlichen Aspekte von technologischen Innovationen [The social aspects of technological innovations].
APARIUZ. Faculty of Law, University of Zurich. May 18, 2020.
What is ethical citizen science?
Citizen Science Winter School. University of Zurich. January 13, 2020.
'action suppression': von Modellen und Menschen ['action suppression': of models and men].
Minds 100. Basel, Switzerland. November 20, 2019
Citizen Science & Research Ethics.
Engaging Billions of Scientists! Den Haag, Netherlands. July 2, 2019.
Le numérique est plus qu’un simple outil parmi d’autres, mais va-t-il pour autant vraiment révolutionner le monde? [The ‘digital’ is more than a simple tool among many others, but will it actually revolutionize the world?].
Roadshow WIR 2017. Olympic Museum. Lausanne, Switzerland. November 2, 2017.
« L'année en recherches » : une mise en scène algorithmique de l'actualité par Google [«Year in Search»: an algorithmic presentation of the news by Google].
Invited keynote. Université du Québéc à Montréal. Montréal, Canada. October 5, 2016.
Social Media as a Tool, Social Media as a Culture: How to Understand ‘the Digital’ in Higher Education.
Digital Campus Meeting organised by Swissnex San Francisco. Lausanne, Switzerland. November 11, 2014.
The Use of Social Media in an Academic Context: Beyond Twitter and Facebook.
Tutors' programm UNICA2014. Lausanne, Switzerland. October 9, 2014.
Other presentations
(invited)
2024
Research and motivation in the age of AI.
Award ceremony of the national competition 'Schweizer Jugend forscht'. Fribourg, Switzerland. Apr 27, 2024
Wikipedia & AI: The Race for Free Knowledge.
Panel participant. Wikipedia Day. Wikimedia CH, Bern, Switzerland. Apr 27, 2024
AI Safety: the Quest to Making AI Human-Centric, Trustworthy and Safe.
Panel participant. Applied Machine Learning Days. EPFL, Switzerland. Mar 26, 2024
2023
Mit KI leben | Vivre avec l’intelligence artificielle [Living with AI].
KUB/BCU Fribourg, Switzerland. Nov 23, 2023
Governing AI ethically.
Center for Digital Trust. EPFL, Switzerland. Nov16, 2023
2022
Diskriminierung in und durch Soziale Medien [Discrimination on and by social media].
Respondent at the event series Soziale Medien und Menschenrechte. University of Bern, Switzerland. Dec 15, 2022
Medienpolitik in digitalen Zeiten [Media policy in digital times].
Panel participant. Mondays for Future. Raiffaisen Forum, Bern, Switzerland. Dec 5, 2022
Valuating words: metrics and semantic practices in web search advertising
Data commons and online advertisement/platforms workshop. HIIG, Germany. Nov 21, 2022
Digitized intimacies: how gender and sexuality are shaped by algorithms and personal data collection processes.
Panel participant. Égalité de genre et transformation numérique. HEIA-FR, Fribourg, Switzerland. Sep 9, 2022
2021
Challenges in governing AI: evidence from soft law
Nordic network of ADM, University of Helsinki /Lund University/University of Copenhagen. Dec 15, 2021
Web Search Advertising
Targeted: Digital Communication and Advertising (conference of the divisions “Advertising Research” and “Digital Communication” of the German Communication Association). University of Leipzig, Germany. Nov 12, 2021.
Künstliche Intelligenz ohne Diskriminierung [Artificial intelligence without discrimination].
Berner Digitaltag. Bern, Switzerland. Nov 10, 2021.
AI ethics guidelines: from values to interventions.
Security and Privacy Engineering Lab. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. February 14, 2021.
2020
Can AI be ethical?
Ethical Computing. CLIC and Polyquity EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. December 9, 2020.
Global overview of AI ethics guidelines: Whose voices are we hearing?
AI on a Social Mission. Montréal, Canada. November 19, 2020.
The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines.
Applied Machine Learning Days. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. January 22, 2020.
2019
Algorithmic Fairness: How to make our algorithms consistent with public expectations.
Tech+Society Breakfast. Zürich, Switzerland. November 8, 2019.
The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines.
Ethical Implications of AI in Cybersecurity. Oxford, UK. November 8, 2019.
Datenethik aus Sicht der Forschung: dringend und innovationsfördernd.
Connecta. Bern, Switzerland. October 22, 2019.
Datenethik: was steht auf dem Spiel.
OMK Bern. University of Bern, Switzerland. August 22, 2019.
Compétences numériques: environnement et défis [Digital literacy: context and challenges].
COFEM/EMEK: Streamingdienste und Plattformen: Herausforderungen für Medien & Öffentlichkeit. Bern, Switzerland. May 8, 2019.
Créer le buzz en 42'017 étapes [Create a buzz in 42'017 steps].”
Buzz ou pas buzz? Etat des lieux de la viralité [To buzz or not to buzz? Virality today]. HEAD. Geneva, Switzerland. March 14, 2019.
#CarteBlanche.
Shift 2019. Zürich, Switzerland. February 28, 2019.
2018
Citizen Science Ethics.
Citizen Science Brown Bag Lunch. University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. December 3, 2018.
Ethik und Governance: Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung” [Ethics and governance: challenges of digitalization].
Genetische genealogie – Chancen und Herausforderungen [Genetic genealogy – opportunities and challenges]. ETH. Zürich, Switzerland. December 1, 2018.
Algorithms, data, and automation: Google’s algorithmic advertising system at work.
L’intelligence artificielle et l’avenir du travail. Promesses des machines, machines à promesses [Artificial Intelligence and the future of work. Promises of machines, promising machines]. University of Lausanne. Lausanne, Switzerland. March 22, 2018.
2017
Evaluating (Ad)Words: Expertise and translation in Google's algorithmic system.
STS faculty research workshop. Tufts University, Medford (MA), USA. September 29, 2017.
2016
Performing public relevance: Google’s Year in Search in Switzerland.
Science Studies Research Group. Cornell University, Ithaca (NY), USA. November 7, 2016.
The future of STS.
Where has STS Traveled? Celebrating 40th Anniversary of the Inaugural Meeting of the Society for Social Science. (graduate panel participant.) Cornell University. Ithaca (NY), USA. October 29, 2016.
La culture numérique, une culture au-delà des cultures? [Digital culture: a culture beyond cultures?].
Meet the future organised by La Journée de la Femme Digitale [Digital Woman Day]. Paris, France. March 10, 2016.
2015
La mémoire collective: 'Google et les poilus' [Collective memory: Google and the 'poilus'].
Les rencontres du web 14-18 [The World War I web meetings] organised by La Mission du Centenaire [The Centenary Departement Committees] (with S. Prezioso, F. Kaplan, & O. Glassey)
Paris, France. April 10, 2015.
2014
How Search Engines Frame Collective Memory. WW1 Commemorated and Reprocessed a Century After (with S. Prezioso, F. Kaplan, & O. Glassey).
Journée CROSS. EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. November 21, 2014.
The Co-Construction of Algorithms: advertisers' representation of Google and its users.” DOC-STS. Geneva, Switzerland. September 26, 2014.
Twitter – advanced issues.
Meeting of communication officers. Presentation. Lausanne University, Switzerland. March 10, 2014.
2013
The commodification of digitized words: (re-)creating and negotiating meaning with web search engines.
Digitization and its Impact on Society. TU Dresden, Germany. September 30, 2013.
Un colloque DH c’est quoi? Du DH2013 au DH2014. [What is a DH colloquium? From DH2013 to DH2014]
Interinstitutional doctoral colloquium UNIL/ EPFL in Digital Humanities. Presentation. EPFL, Switzerland. September 20, 2013.
Les prothèses linguistiques et la commodification des mots par Google. [The linguistic prosthesis and commodification of words by Google].
Interinstitutional doctoral colloquium UNIL/EPFL in Digital Humanities. Lausanne University, Switzerland. June 21, 2013.
2012
Les réseaux sociaux: quelques impacts majeurs. [Social networks: some major impacts].
Startups & SME Breakfast. Lausanne, Switzerland. March 2, 2012