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Malte Ziewitz
Assistant Professor and Mills Family Faculty Fellow
Morrill Hall, Room 313
mcz35@cornell.edu
Educational Background
- D.Phil., Science and Technology Studies, University of Oxford
- M.P.A., Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School
- First State Exam, Law, University of Hamburg
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Overview
Professor Malte Ziewitz studies the changing role of governance and regulation in, of, and through digitally networked environments – the dynamics at work, the values at stake, the design options at hand. His recent work explores evaluative practice in healthcare and search engine optimization (SEO); algorithmic ordering; the history and performativity of internet governance; and computational approaches to privacy. As Principal Investigator, he headed the ESRC-funded 'How's My Feedback?' project, a collaborative design experiment to rethink and evaluate online review and rating websites.
Research Focus
Science & technology studies; sociology of (e)valuation; mundane governance and regulation; digital media; audit cultures; ethnography; ethnomethodology
Departments/Programs
- Science and Technology Studies
Graduate Fields
- Information Science
- Science and Technology Studies
Publications
Edited volumes
- Ziewitz, M. ed. (2016). Governing Algorithms. Special Issue of Science, Technology, and Human Values 41(1).
Selected articles/chapters
- Ziewitz, M. (2017). A not quite random walk: Experimenting with the ethnomethods of the algorithm. Big Data & Society 4(2): 1-13.
- Ziewitz, M. (2017). Experience in action: Moderating care in web-based patient feedback. Social Science & Medicine 175: 99-108.
- Ziewitz, M. (2016). Governing algorithms: Myth, mess, and methods. Science, Technology, and Human Values 41(1): 3-16.
- Ziewitz, M. and C. Pentzold (2014). In search of internet governance: Performing order in digitally networked environments. New Media & Society 16(2): 306-322.
- Barocas, S., Hood, S. and M. Ziewitz (2013). Governing algorithms: A provocation piece. Discussion paper for Governing Algorithms conference, May 16-17, 2013.
- Ziewitz, M. and I. Brown (2013). A prehistory of internet governance. In Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet, ed I. Brown, 3-26. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Ziewitz, M. (2011). How to attend to screens? Technology, ontology and precarious enactments. Encounters 4(2): 203-228.
- Mayer-Schönberger, V. and M. Ziewitz (2007). Jefferson rebuffed: The United States and the future of internet governance. Columbia Science and Technology Law Review 8: 188-228.