Fellows 1st virtual Clinic

The fellows of our virtual research clinic introduce themselves

How can we best avoid harmful societal consequences of seemingly well-intentioned targeted advertising strategies? Do we need less targeted systems for ad deliveries or ones that grant their target groups a meaningful choice regarding the kinds of job ads they are interested in? Might there even be a case to be made that targeted advertising should be stopped altogether?

These are just some of the questions we would will tackle together in our virtual clinic on “Increasing Fairness in Targeted Advertising: The Risk of Gender Stereotyping by Job Ad Algorithms”.

Our research fellows will explore a key challenge of online communication spaces: who gets to see what – and who decides why.

HIIG Virtual Clinic | FELLOWS

		Ezgi Eren Affiliation: Student (LLM) at The University of Edinburgh, Great Britain Area of Research: Innovation, Technology and the Law
		Lukas Hondrich Affiliation: Researcher at AlgorithmWatch, Germany Area of Research: Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience
		Linus Huang Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Area of Research: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
		Basileal Imana Affiliation: PhD student at the University of Southern California, USA Area of Research: Security, privacy and fairness
		Joanne Kuai Affiliation: PhD student at Karlstad University, Sweden Area of Research: AI in Journalism
		Marcela Mattiuzzo Affiliation: PhD Candidate at the University of São Paulo, Brazil Area of Research: Commercial Law
		Sylvie Rzepka Affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Potsdam, Germany Area of Research: Empirical Economics
		Marie-Therese Sekwenz Affiliation: Student at University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Area of Research: Content Moderation, Automated Bias, AI
		Zora Siebert Affiliation: Brussels Head of EU Policy Programme at Heinrich Böll Foundation, European Union, Belgium Area of Research: Political Science
		Sarah Stapel Affiliation: Student (LLM) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Area of Research: Privacy and data protection
		Ana Pop Stefanija Affiliation: PhD researcher at imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Area of Research: Socio-technical aspects of AI
		Franka Weckner Affiliation: Student at the University of Heidelberg, Germany Area of Research: International Law

About the research project

The virtual clinic is part of the NoC research project “The Ethics of Digitalisation – From Principles to Practices”, which aims to develop viable answers to challenges at the intersection of ethics and digitalisation. Innovative formats facilitate interdisciplinary scientific work on application-, and practice-oriented questions and achieve outputs of high social relevance and impact. Our first research sprint on algorithmic tools for content moderation has just successfully concluded. The project promotes an active exchange between science, politics and society and thus contributes to a global dialogue on the ethics of digitalisation.

Besides the HIIG, the main project partners are the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, the Digital Asia Hub, and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut.