The Project Team

Martina Klausner is Professor of Digital Anthropology / Science and Technology Studies at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University. She studied European Ethnology and Cultural Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin and earned her doctorate at the intersection of anthropology and science and technology studies. Her research focuses on a range of current social phenomena: the investigation of digitalisation and datafication processes, particularly in areas of governance and the integration of data infrastructures. She also explores the testing of digital methods as part of ethnographic research. She is a principal investigator in the research training group “Fixing Futures. Technologies of Anticipation” and at the Centre for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Catharina Dietrich is a research assistant in the project „Tracing Data Politics” and an associate member of the research training group „Fixing Futures. Technologies of Anticipation“ at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her dissertation research on data policies in the context of a mobility transition in Frankfurt focuses specifically on the data practices of civil society actors and initiatives and their political interrelationships. She holds an M.A. in Science and Technology Studies from Goethe University Frankfurt and previously completed a Bachelor in anthropology with a minor in public law at Johannes Gutenberg University.

Janine Hagemeister is a research assistant in the project „Tracing Data Politics“ and an associate member of the research training group “Fixing Futures. Technologies of Anticipation” at Goethe University Frankfurt. As part of her doctoral research on data policies in Frankfurt’s mobility transition, she conducts ethnographic research in the municipal city administration and examines everyday practices in working with digital data and their political embedding. She completed her M.A. in Science and Technology Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt and previously studied political science and philosophy at bachelor’s degree.