Sandra Balbierz

Welcome

I’m a communication manager and sociologist with a strong interest in (i) experimental thinking and (ii) deepening the knowledge of con-structions and con-sequences of data-driven technologies and new modes of information manipulation.

My research focuses on socio-techno-political con-structions of data-driven technologies and its con-sequences for people, organisations and larger societies, combining philosophical and sociological approaches and working in the intersection of security studies. The prefix con is more relevant as it seems. It is not just a postmodern style of writing. It is (i) a comment on my basic belief that technologies and people are co-creating and orchestrating what sociologists since the 1890s call the social. It is an understanding of socio-techno-political processes that is (a) informed and inspired by writers of the philosophy of technologies such as Gilbert Simondon (Existenzweisen technologischer Objekte), Katherine Hayles (Komplexe Zeitstrukturen lebender und technischer Wesen) and Jean-Luc Nancy (Singulär plural) which (b) also provokes a new materialist understanding of Aristotelian rhetoric. Furthermore, (ii) it reflects on the way how research has to be conducted under the ‚datalogical turn‘ (Roger Häußling): as collaboration of different disciplines and perspectives.

Currently I’m working in the field of disinformation and information manipulation from a technological, philosophical, sociologist and behavioral science perspective.