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 and empirical findings 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.
- General Sociological Theory
- Science and Technology Studies
- Actor-Network Theory and the Sociology of Translation (Bruno Latour, Michel Callon)
- Tarde and the Neo-Tardians (Gabriel Tarde, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour)
- New Materialism
- Sociology of the Digital
- International sociological research on datafication
- Philosophical approaches to technological and digital objects (Hui, Hayles, Simondon)
- Post-fundamentalist theories of the social and the political
- Parliamentary Sociology
- Disinformation and Cognitive Warfare
- Environmental Crime
Sandra Balbierz 