Dr. Nadja Schaetz

Nadja Schaetz ist Postdoktorandin an der Universität Hamburg. In ihrer Arbeit untersucht sie die Beziehung zwischen technologischer Innovation und den Nachrichtenmedien aus einer soziotechnischen Perspektive. Ihr besonderes Interesse gilt der Frage, wie Macht und Ungleichheit durch technologische Veränderungen verstärkt oder in Frage gestellt werden. Sie hat an der Universität Hamburg in Journalistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft promoviert. Vor ihrer Promotion arbeitete sie als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft, an der Freien Universität Berlin und an der Universität Stockholm.

I. Konferenzbeiträge

• Gagrčin, E., Schaetz, N., Toth, R., Naab, T., Emmer, M. (2025) Perceptions and Implications of Data Harms to Individuals and Society. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK) 70th Annual Conference, Berlin.
• Schaetz, N. (2025) AI Provenance Loss and the Boundaries of Origin. STS-Hub 2025: Diffracting the Critical, Berlin.
• Schaetz, N.; Schjøtt Hansen, A. (2024) A Sociology of Expectations: Understanding AI Hype in Journalism. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Sheffield.
• Schaetz, N.; Gagrčin, E. (2024) How Immediacy Diminishes Academic Labor, YECREA, Ljubljana.
• Koitie, P., Schaetz, N., Kunert, J., Lischka, J. (2024) No AI without Datafication: Datafication Levels and Actor Constellations in Kenyan and German News Organisations. Pre-conference to the 10th European Communication Conference (ECREA): Mapping AI Constellations in News Media and Journalism, Ljubljana.
• Koitie, P., Schaetz, N., Kunert, J., Lischka, J. (2024) The Datafication Divide in Journalism. DGPuK FG-Tagung: Methoden & DigiKomm, Hamburg.
• Hilker, C.; Schaetz, N.; Loosen, W.; Lischka, A.J. (2024) From Innovation Labs to Innovation Systems in Public-Service Media. 74th ICA Annual Conference, Gold Coast (virtual).
• Schaetz, N., Laugwitz, L., Lischka, A.J. (2024) Domestication of Data in Journalism. Big Data Discourses: Communicating, Deliberating, and Imagining Datafication Conference, Leipzig.
• Schaetz, N., Schjøtt Hansen, A. (2023) ‘Journalistic AI Training Programs: Macro Epistemics, Inequities & A Global Journalistic Coalition’. AI Infrastructures Conference, AI, Media, and Democracy Lab, Amsterdam.
• Schjøtt Hansen, A. Schaetz, N. (2023) AI courses as epistemic devices: A case study of the JournalismAI Academy for Small Newsrooms. AI Infrastructures Conference, AI, Media, and Democracy Lab, Amsterdam.
• 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. Eingeladene Vorträge

• Schaetz, N. (2024) OriGen: AI Data Provenance Loss. AI, Media, and Democracy Lab, University of Amsterdam.
• Schaetz, N. & Schjøtt, A. (2024) Understanding AI Hype in Journalism. Berkman Klein Center For Internet & Society, Harvard.
• Schaetz, N. (2024) Generative AI: Immediacy & Origin. Critical Data and Machine Learning Lecture Series. Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
• Schaetz, N. (2024) Independent Journalism and AI. Digital- und Medienpolitische Fachforum Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/The Greens), Berlin.
• Schaetz, N. (2023) Resilience and Innovation in Journalism. Der Spiegel, Hamburg.
• Schaetz, N. (2022) Digital Transformation and Platform Dependencies. Das Konzeptwerk, online.

III. 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

Stipendien

• 2023 Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab Grant
• 2022 Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab Grant

Forschungsaufenthalte

• 2021 Visiting Scholar, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University; Supervisor/Collaborator: Assistant Professor Jakob L. Nelson

Preise

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

• Critical Data Studies (B.A.)
• Data and AI Literacy in Journalism (M.A.)
• Feminist Interventions in News Distribution (B.A.)
• Algorithmische Optimierung in demokratischen Öffentlichkeiten (M.A.)
• Journalism & Audience Datafication (M.A.)
• Media & Attention (B.A.)
• Datafication and Information Inequality: News Professionals and Audiences in a Global Perspective (B.A.)
• Methods of Communication Research (B.A.)
• Formalised Curiosity: Foundations of Qualitative Interviewing (M.A.)
• Quantitative Content Analysis (M.A.) 

Gastvorträge:

• 2021 Responsibility, Ethics, Justice? Principles of Data Feminism (M.A.), Furtwangen University.
• 2021 Media and Politics in a Globalizing World (M.A.), Stockholm University.
• 2018 Global Crisis, Global Media (M.A.), Stockholm University.