We’re excited to announce our upcoming workshop Research in Practice – Attending to Algorithms in and around Organizations, which will take place on Tuesday, November 26. This workshop will be conducted at the Weizenbaum Institute and is open to Weizenbaum Institute members.
Led by Maximilian Heimstädt, Professor of Digital Governance & Service Design at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, this workshop sheds light on how to research the role of algorithms for work and workers in and around organizations. As the anthropologist Nick Seaver has aptly put it: “Just as critical scholars picked them up, algorithms seemed to break apart.” The aim of the workshop is to understand the breaking apart of algorithms as an opportunity for creative research questions, designs and methods. In the first part of the workshop, Maximilian presents different ways in which algorithms in organizations lend themselves to study. In the second part, participants are invited to present their own research projects and ideas, and to discuss methodological challenges with the group.
The workshop is co-organized by the Methods Lab and the Research in Practice – PhD Network for Qualitative Research, coordinated by Katharina Berr and Jana Pannier.
For further details, visit our program page. We are looking forward to your participation!