Nadja Schaetz

Nadja Schaetz is a doctoral candidate and research associate at Universität Hamburg, where she does research on journalism under datafication, with a focus on communicative dimensions of inequality. She is particularly interested in the social and political implications of datafication and AI. Prior to her doctoral studies at Universität Hamburg, she worked as a research associate at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and Freie Universität Berlin. She holds an M.A. degree in media and communication studies from Stockholm University, where she remains a collaborator doing research on information inequality in a global perspective.

I. Conferences 

Schaetz, N., Lischka, A.J., Laugwitz, L. (2023) From Data to Epistemic Infrastructure: How Data Elites Are Changing the Journalistic Field. 74rd ICA Annual Conference, Toronto.  

Schjøtt Hansen, A. Schaetz, N. (2023) The Paradox of Responsible AI: A Study of Journalistic Training Programs on AI as Socio-Discursive and Performative Spaces.74rd ICA Annual Conference, Toronto.  

Gagrčin, E., Schaetz, N.,Toth, R., Emmer, M. (2023) Commodification, Control, Concern: Exploring Appraisals of Data Collection Harms to Individuals and Democracy Among Young European Social Media Users. 74rd ICA Annual Conference, Toronto.  

Lischka, A.J., Laugwitz, L.,Schaetz, N., Meyer, H., Heitz, L., Abdullah, R. Kunert, J., Kleinen von Königslöw, K. (2023) When Recommender Systems Select Political News: Effects of Algorithmic News Curation on Party Preferences. 74rd ICA Annual Conference, Toronto.  

Schaetz, N. (2022). News Professionals and their Datafied Audiences: How Audience Data Practices Shape Inequity. 74rd ICA Annual Conference, Paris.  

Schaetz, N. (2022). News Professionals and their Datafied Audiences: How Audience Data Practices Shape Inequity. Media & Publics, Roskilde.

Lischka, J.A. & Schaetz, N. (2021) Of Monsters and Centaurs: Narrative Construction of the Future of Journalism in Professional Projectories, Future of Journalism Conference, Sept 23 – 24, 2021, virtual.

Lischka, J.A. & Schaetz, N. (2021) Editorial Technologists as Newsroom Pioneers, International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, May 27 – 31, 2021, virtual.

Robertson A., Schaetz, N. (2021) News Professionals, Audiences and Communication Rights in a Global Perspective. European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), 6-9 September 2021, virtual

Robertson A., Schaetz, N. (2020) Representations of Inequality in Global Television News. IAMCR - 2020, virtual.  

II. Workshops

Was bedeutet es, Bürger online zu sein? (What does it mean to be a citizen online?). Federal Agency for Civic Education, March 6, 2020, Frankfurt am Main.

III. Awards

Robertson A., Schaetz, N. (2019) ‘Top Papers in Global Communication and Social Change’ Award. 69th ICA Annual Conference, Washington D.C.

Media & Attention (B.A.), Universität Hamburg (2023)

Feministische Intervention in Nachrichtendistribution (B.A.), Universität Hamburg (2023)

Algorithmische Optimierung in demokratischen Öffentlichkeiten - interdisziplinäres Design eines Nachrichtenempfehlungssystem (M.A.), Universität Hamburg (2022/23)

Qualitative Interviewing (M.A.), Universität Hamburg (2022)

Journalism and Audience Datafication (M.A.), Universität Hamburg (2022)

Datafication and Information Inequality (M.A.), Universität Hamburg (2021/22)

Quantitative Content Analysis (M.A.), Universität Hamburg (2021, 2021/2022)

Methods of Communication Research (B.A.), Universität Hamburg (2021)

Qualitative Interviewing (M.A.), Freie Universität Berlin (2020/21)

Guest Lectures:

Audiences and Publics (M.A.), Stockholm University (2021)

Global Crises, Global Media (M.A.), Stockholm University (2018)