Laura Laugwitz
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Laura Laugwitz has been a member of Prof Lischka's ‘Digital Journalism’ team at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences since January 2021. Previously, she was a student assistant in the transdisciplinary research project "Overcoming crises in public communication about refugees, migration, foreigners" (NOHATE) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Her main research interests are
- Automated recommendations of messages on different platforms
- Hate speech in digital communication
- Interdisciplinary development of methods for computational communication studies
- Feminist perspectives in and on computer science and communication studies
Curriculum Vitae
| Since 01/2021 | Research associate at the professorship for Journalism and Communication Studies, esp. Digital Journalism, Universität Hamburg |
| 10/2017 - 09/2020 | M.Sc. Digital Media and Technology, Technische Universität und Freie Universität Berlin |
| 10/2013 - 09/2017 | B.Sc. Informatik und Wirtschaft (Computer Science and Business), Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin |
| 10/2008 - 09/2013 | B. A. Social and Cultural Anthroplogy/Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
Publications and Projects
Teaching
• Summer 2024: Kritische Einblicke in Digitale Welten: Die Analyse von Open Data und personenbezogenen Daten mit R. Universität Hamburg.
• Winter 2023/24: FLINTA in Tech: Hacking the Patriarchy. Universität Hamburg.
• Winter 2023/24: Feministische Intervention in Nachrichtendistribution. Universität Hamburg.
• Summer 2023: Feministische Bewegungen in digitalen Öffentlichkeiten. Universität Hamburg.
• Winter 22/23: Algorithmische Optimierung in demokratischen Öffentlichkeiten - interdisziplinäres Design eines Nachrichtenempfehlungssystems. Universität Hamburg.
• Summer 2022: Methoden der Kommunikationsforschung. Universität Hamburg.
• Winter 21/22: Nachrichtenempfehlungssysteme im Vergleich. Universität Hamburg.
• Winter 21/22: Quantitative Content Analysis. Universität Hamburg.
• Summer 2021: Quantitative Content Analysis. Universität Hamburg.
• SoSe 2021: Methoden der Kommunikationsforschung. Universität Hamburg.
• Winter 20/21: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben. Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft.
• Winter 19/20: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben. Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft.
• Summer 2019: Hate Speech im Internet. Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft.
Presentations
I. Academic Presentations and Workshops
05/2023 Feminist News Recommendation. 73nd Annual International Coomunication Association Conference, Toronto.
05/2023 Preconference ICA Hackathon 2023 (co-organizer). 73nd Annual International Coomunication Association Conference, Toronto.
05/2022 Affordances of Digital News Recommendations on News Websites. Journalism Studies Divison, PhD Colloquium, 72nd Annual International Coomunication Association Conference, Paris.
09/2021 Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations (mit Lischka, J.A., L. Heitz, B. Paudel, S. Tolmeijer, A. Birrer& A. Bernstein). Future of Journalism Conference (online)
05/2021 Explaining Machine Learning Models to Establish Validity in Automated Content Analysis. 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference (online)
05/2021 Defining Online Hate Speech for AI detection. Insights from the NOHATE project (mit Paasch-Colberg, S.). Global Media & Policy Seminar Oxford (online)
04/2021 Diverse News Recommendations and Democracy (mit Heitz, L., J. Lischka, B. Paudel, S. Tolmeijer, A. Birrer, & A. Bernstein). Symposium “Robots, recommenders and responsibility” (online)
10/2019 Computer, Käsebrot und Gesellschaft - Zu den Geschlechterverhältnissen in der Informationstechnologie. Hochschule Neubrandenburg
03/2017 A Rail of One's Own: Creating Spaces for women in IT. Nordic Summer University Fengersfors
01/2017 Random Basics of Computing, University of Arts, College of Communication London
II. Public Presentations and Workshops
11/2020 Gender and Computing. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Portugal (online)
06/2019 Keynote: The Miseducation of This Machine. euruko Rotterdam
10/2017 The 2D Kitten Problem. GOTO Developer Conference Kopenhagen
05/2016 Wege ins (und aus dem) Programmieren. mediaconvention Berlin