Alexander Orlowski

Society, Culture and Technological Change

Alexander Orlowski is a sociologist of technology and works currently at the IZEW in the project "TANGO". He finished his studies in sociology at the University of Tübingen in 2018. He wrote his thesis on the social construct of autonomous driving.

Research intersts

sociology of technology
The relationship between social and technological change
Sociological perspective on autonomous driving, artificial intelligence/machine learning, big data
Qualitative social research (discourse analysis, ethnography, grounded theory, situation analysis)

Career

Since 2019	Research associate In the project TANGO at the IZEW
2018	Research associate In the project INTEGRAM at the IZEW
2016 - 2018	Examined research assistant In the project INTEGRAM at the IZEW
2014 - 2018	Sociology studies at University of Tübingen (M.A.) Thesis: "Autonomes Fahren als mediale Konstruktion einer Technologie. Eine Diskursanalyse"
2011 - 2014	Sociology studies at the University of Augsburg (B.A.)

Publications

with Céline Gressel (2019): Integrierte Technikentwicklung. TATuP Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, v. 28, n. 2, S. 71-72, 8 Juli 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.28.2.s71
Atanisev et al. (2017): Vermessen und Teilen - Praktiken und Diskurse des Teilens digitaler Selbstvermessungsdaten http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-16665

Teaching

WiSe 19/20

Together with Matthias Leger: Techniksoziologie: theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Annäherung am Institut für Soziologie (Universität Tübingen)