Primary research
I study the relationships and entanglements between algorithms, social and political concerns – examining how users experience and make sense of algorithmic power and politics. My research includes the following topics:
-
Digital infrastructures and the platform power of Facebook
- Algorithms from a sociotechnical perspective
- Cultural imaginaries of digital tech and AI
- Feminist epistemologies
- Temporalities of the algorithmic media landscape
I recently published the book Facebook (with Polity Press, 2021). I am also the author of IF…THEN: Algorithmic power and politics (Oxford University Press, 2018), which provides an account of the algorithmic media landscape. The book’s analysis pays close attention to the multiple realities of algorithms, and how these relate and coexist with our everyday lives.
Current research
At the moment I work on three projects:
Theorising media silences and absence
Analysis of users perceptions of and experiences with algorithms
The monitorial citizen in the platform society
I am currently the Head of Screen Cultures, a research and teaching initiative at the Faculty of Humanities, and its affiliated Screen cultures master's programme.
I am currently a regular tech-columnist at the Norwegian broadsheet weekly newspaper Morgenbladet.
Teaching and supervision
I teach and supervise digital media-related topics, including social media, digital infrastructure, cultures and practices of digital media use, media and communication theory, science and technology studies, screen cultures and technologies, cultural history of artificial intelligence, inventive methods, digitalisation of the public sector, datafication, critical data, - and algorithm studies.
Background
2016 - 2019 Associate Professor in Communication and IT, University of Copenhagen
2013- 2016 Assistant Professor in Communication and IT, University of Copenhagen
PhD (2012) Media Studies, University of Oslo
MSc in Culture & Society (2007), London School of Economics and Political Science
Visiting scholar at the New School, NYC (2015); Ryerson University, Toronto (2011); at New York University (2010).
Editorial board member
Journal of Communication
Information, Communication & Society
More information
website tainabucher.com
@tainab: Twitter