Sandra Balbierz

Welcome

I’m a communication manager and sociologist with a strong interest in (i) sociological theories, (ii) experimental thinking, (iii) data-driven technologies and (iv) 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 at the intersection of security studies. The prefix con is not ‚just‘ a postmodern style of writing. It is (i) a comment on my basic belief that technologies and people co-create the dynamic flows of the social world. This mode of thinking is 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 also provokes a new materialist understanding of Aristotelian rhetoric. Furthermore, it reflects on the ways how research can 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.