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Sarah Ziedler

Sarah Ziedler is a science communicator at the HIIG. Her responsibilities include managing the institute’s social media channels and website, editing the Digital Society Blog as well as the annual research magazine encore, and contributing to press and newsletter work. She is also a project assistant in the AI and Gender Equality project.

Sarah studied Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Art History. For her Master’s thesis, she drew on two documentaries about women’s football to explore how marginalised bodies can challenge familiar assumptions about gender on screen.

Current projects

  • The picture depicts a concrete bench-like structure. Its visible gap serves as a metaphor for structural inequality in AI and gender equality.
    AI · Society & culture

    AI and Gender Equality

    The project reviews research on AI and structural gender inequality, identifying problem areas, research gaps and fields of action for policy and practice.

Publications

Edited works

Efferenn, F., Kuper, F., Mosene, K., & Scheuermann, B., Wunderlich, L., & Ziedler, S. (Eds.) (2025). encore: 2025/2026. Berlin, Germany: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17912843 Publication details

Beyer, J., Efferenn, F., Mosene, K., Pohle, J., Scheuermann, B., Wunderlich, L., & Ziedler, S. (Eds.) (2024). encore: 2024/2025. Berlin, Germany: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Publication details

Sarah Ziedler

Position

Science Communication

Contact

sarah.ziedler@hiig.de

Research focus

Societal Values, Transformation and Artificial Intelligence

Our research critically analyses socio-technical transformation processes. It centres on the question of how digital technologies can be more closely aligned with societal goals – particularly with regard to sustainability, the public interest and democratic values.