Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Passoth
Former Head Post/Doc Lab Digital Media
Digital MediaJan-Hendrik Passoth was head of the Digital/Media/Lab where he and his team have been exploring the ongoing digital transformation of our lives, working environments and institutions; focusing on the entanglements between infrastructures, datafication and communication. He writes about the social and cultural role of software, data and algorithms and works in close collaboration with projects in Computer Science, Mathematics and Software Engineering.
His dissertation “Technik und Gesellschaft” looked at the emergence and change of social science concepts of technology. His habilitation “Soziologie der Umstände” developed a set of heuristic devices for the analysis of heterogenous practices and transsituational social and cultural order by connecting practice theory and actor-network theory.
Since Fall 2020 Jan-Hendrik Passoth holds the chair of sociology of technology at the the faculty of social and cultural sciences and the European New School of Digital Studies at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder.
- Sociology of Technology: Digitization, Data Society, Algorithmic Culture
- Sociology of Science: Data Science, Computer Science, social and political sciences
- Social Theory: Praxis Theory, Actor-Network-Theory, Pragmatism, Qualitative Research (Co-Laborative research, political ethnography, digital methods)
- Thinking Machines: The History, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence, 01.01.2020–31.12.2020
- Coding Public Value: Public Service Media and Software for the Common Good, 01.01.2020 - 31.03.2023
- TrustMLRegulation - Managing Trust and Distrust in Machine Learning with Meaningful Regulation, 15.10.19-31.10.20
- Public Service Media, Platforms and Digital Infrastructures,
- Developing a Digital Toolkit to Enhance the Communication of Scientific Health Claims, 01.2020 - 12.2021
- Secure Agile Software Development. Practices, Processes, Artefacts, Since August 2018
- Mediacenters of the Future, 2015 - 2017
- Institutional Reflexivity in Sociotechnical Networks (DFG),
- Taking Tacit Knowledge into Account by Using Problem Cases as Guidelines in HMI Development, 01.10.2016 – 31.08.2019
- Mämecke, Thorben, Jan-Hendrik Passoth und Josef Wehner (Eds.): Bedeutende Daten. Modelle, Verfahren und Praxis der Vermessung und Verdatung im Netz, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017.
- Duttweiler, Stefanie, Robert Gugutzer, Jan-Hendrik Passoth und Jörg Strübing (Eds.): Leben nach Zahlen. Self-Tracking als Optimierungsprojekt?, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2016.
- Méndez, Daniel und Jan-Hendrik Passoth: Empirical software engineering: From discipline to interdiscipline, in: Journal of Systems and Software, 148, 2019: 170-179
- Pöchhacker, Nikolaus, Andrea Geipel, Marcus Burkhardt und Jan-Hendrik Passoth: Algorithmische Vorschlagsysteme und der Programmauftrag. Zwischen Datenwissenschaft, journalistischem Anspruch und demokratie-politischer Aufgabe, in: Resa Mohabbat Kar, Basanta Thapa und Peter Parycek (Hsg.): (Un)berechenbar? Automatisierung und Algorithmen in Staat und Gesellschaft, Berlin: Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme FOKUS, 2018: 417–439.
- Passoth, Jan-Hendrik, Birgit Peuker und Michael Schillmeier: Introduction, in: Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Birgit Peuker and Michael Schillmeier (Hsg.): Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action, London: Routledge, 2012: 1–11.
- Europe by Design: Transnational Infrastructure Projects and the Reconfiguration of Europe
- Making a Mess with Methods
- Social Science Hackathon
- MCTS 1: Practices and Politics of Science and Technology
- Technology & Society (Economics, Politics, Ethics, Law, & Media)
- Passoth, Jan-Hendrik, Peter Müller und Nikolaus Pöchhacker: Jenseits neuer Methoden und Datentypen. Herausforderungen einer digitalen Soziologie, 39. Meeting of the German Sociological Association (DGS), 26. Sep. 2018.
- Passoth, Jan-Hendrik und Nicholas J. Rowland: The Need for Social Studies of Politics, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), 30. Aug. 2018.
- Jan-Hendrik Passoth und Nikolaus Pöchhacker: Liquid Law and democratic AI. Process regulation and the governance of machine learning, Villa Vigoni Conference on AI, Law and Regulation, Mennagio, IT, 4. Apr. 2018.
- Passoth, Jan-Hendrik: Mit dem Rechnen rechnen, Sociological Research Colloquium, Konstanz, 23. Jan. 2018.
- Jan-Hendrik Passoth und Pollozek, Silvan: Data Collection and the Logi(stic)s of Migration, Workshop: Peopling Europe through Data Practices, Tate Modern and Goldsmiths College, London, 17. Mar. 2017.
- Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
- European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (GWTF)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) (Sektionen: Kultursoziologie, Medien- und Kommunikationssoziologie, Qualitative Methoden, Soziologische Theorie, Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung, Wissenssoziologie)
- Visiting Scholar an der Indiana University (2005), der Pennsylvania State University (2013-2014) sowie Gastwissenschaftler am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld (2010) und am Medienwissenschaftlichen Seminar der Universität Siegen (2014)