Professor of Sociology @uni-kiel.de Germany
Social Theory, Algorithmic Sociality, Affect Theory

@seyfert.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology @uni-kiel.de Germany
Social Theory, Algorithmic Sociality, Affect Theory
folks we’re gonna need better studies than this news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
The study indicates that “people who objectively know more about current affairs are actually less likely to express themselves politically on social media” and therefore that those less well-informed are more likely to contribute to the discourse.
The concluding presentation of our conference is by Blue Maignien on The Politics of Time in the Use of Surveillance Technology in Inpatient Mental Health Care
now Anna Marie-Rönsch on Regulating Access, Co-Producing Algorithms.
Last panel of the day and the conference starts with Malte Ziewitz on Humans of AI
Heiner Heiland and Matthias Sommer concluded this panel with a talk on Algorithmic Management at Work
Marc Lenglet "From Algorithmic Regulation to Algorithmic Governance"
The last day of the Socialising Algorithmic Conference starts with a presentation about the limits of the concept of digital sovereignty and an alternative concept: leverage.
Keynote as podcast: Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Jan Groos @futurehistories.bsky.social discuss digital sovereignty in the absence of a sovereign in the age of AI, the resonances between political, corporate and technological logics among other topics.
Concluding presentation by Natalie Schaefer on (De)Socializing Algorithms and the practice of unfollowing
Next presentation in this panel is by Ronja Tischler and Cornelius Schubert on Repairing Algorithms
After the coffee break, we are continuijg with Minna Ruckenstein, who gives insights into how people relate emotionally to algorithms in her talk, 'Autonomy and Feedback Loops in Algorithmic Sociality'.
Jasmin Pfefferkorn und Emilie K. Sunde: A reflexive aesthetics for generated images: Going beyond critical debunking.
Shintaro Miyazaki on Common Intelligence as an alternative to Artificial Intelligence
Start of day two the Socializing Algorithms Conference Orit Halpern on A Government of Agents
Our "Socialzing Algorithms Conference"
kicks off with a keynote from
N. Katerine Hayles
muss natürlich #dgs2028 heißen
Nach dem #dgs2026 Kongress ist vor der Socializing Algorithms Conference.
Mit Keynotes von N. Katherine Hayles und Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social.
Die Veranstaltung beginnt am 07. 10. 17:00 Uhr im @landesbibliothek.bsky.social. Programm und Anmeldung finden sich auf der Webseite.
Abschluss eines, wie ich finde, sehr gelungenen Soziologiekongresses #dgs2026
Vielen Dank an die DGS und das lokale Organisationsteam für die Organisation und Durchführung.
@dgsoziologie.bsky.social @mmoelders.bsky.social @tobeasbold.bsky.social @saschadickel.bsky.social et al.
Leipzig #dgs2027
Unterhaltsame und erkenntnisreiche audiovisuelle Darstellung der deutschsprachigen Soziologie nach 1945, mit wirklich spannenden Zeitzeugeninterviews.