- E-postanja.salzmann@uib.no
- BesøksadresseChristies gate 125015 BergenRom602
- PostadressePostboks 78075020 Bergen
AREA of EXPERTISE
I have expertise in research on the adoption of complex socio-technical systems by societal risk groups and in applying strategies and methods of the European Policy Framework Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). I am actively engaged in public debates about digitalisation in Norwegian schools, AI and ethics as well as societal consequences of dataveillance, digital (non-)human-centered technologies.
Currently, I am especially interested in questions on responsible development and adoption of desirable AI technologies in education that are human-centered, ecological sustainable and promoting social justice. I am also interested in implications of increasing rapid and chaotic digitalization on journalism, the public sphere and democracy as well as cybernetic governance approaches.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
After my A-level education with special classes in arts and music at the Gymnasium Rutheneum in Gera/Germany, in the 90s I studied Applied Media Sciences at the Ilmenau University of Technology in Thuringia/Germany.This hybrid study allowed me to combine multiple disciplines with a focus on engineering, economy and social sciences. My study at the TU Ilmenau encompassed subjects such as informatics, higher mathematics, telematics and media technology, the basics of business administration, macroeconomics and civil law but also typical social-science-disciplines such politics, sociology and media and communication. One of my lecturers was the internationally reknown engineer and mathematician professor Karlheinz Brandenburg, founder of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (DMT), known for his elementary work in audio coding and developing the audio data compression format MP3 that has revolutionized the music industry in the late 1990s.Later on, and out of personal interest, I studied art history and German linguistics at the University of Bergen as well as one year pedagogy at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. The scope of different disciplines I got the opportunity to study, inspired my interest in philosophical and sociological questions as well as in critical theory.
My educational background and broad range of interests has enabled me to look at societal issues from a broader disciplinary and analytical perspective, to detect visible and invisible links within and between different complex aspects and discplinary viewpoints.
It is the hybrid perspective on technology, economy and social sciences, but also my personal interest in philosophy, arts, technology and human history that drive my academic work.
DOCTORAL THESIS
In my doctoral thesis I have examined innovation in the field of mobile journalism by exploring how professional journalists and journalistic pioneers learn about and adopt mobile technology for their journalistic practice. I investigate critically the side effects from journalists’ adoption of mobile computing platforms, encompassing highly convergent and insufficiently understood risk technologies that are embedded in complex infrastructures and mainly driven by new emerging economic logics in the digital sphere.
The findings of my empirical and analytic-theoretical work indicate to draw more attention towards individual, organizational, and societal risks attached to an uncritical and irresponsible adoption of a complex and pervasive computing platforms in journalism but also in other societal sectors.
To counteract the identified and complex risks from comprehensive data extraction (that are bound to risk technologies such as artificial intelligence and catalyzed by new commercial logics of surveillance capitalism) I look more closely on academic discussions around the term `responsible innovation` and apply ideas and tools from the European framework Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).
My doctoral thesis was supervised by professor Frode Guribye (UiB) and professor Astrid Gynnild (co-supervisor).
GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
risk technology, innovation theory, social system theory, learning theory, dataveillance, datafication, data ethics, machine ethics, digital literacy, desirable AI technologies, complex socio-technical systems, ethnography, digital economy, educational technology, learning analytics, journalism, mobile journalism, qualitative research, critical theory
- (2021). Mobile Journalists as Tracable Data Objects: Surveillance Capitalism and Responsible Innovation in Mobile Journalism. Media and Communication.
- (2021). Adopting a mojo mindset: Training newspaper reporters in mobile journalism. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism.
- (2020). “We in the Mojo Community” – Exploring a Global Network of Mobile Journalists . Journalism Practice.
- (2024). WEBINAR Kunstig intelligens i høyere utdanning –drivkrefter, status, visjoner og utfordringer.
- (2024). Kunstig intelligens i forskning og høyere utdanning - muligheter, utfordringer og EU´s perspektiver.
- (2024). Et større blikk på KI i utdanningen - refleksjoner over konsekvenser for skole og lektorutdanning.
- (2023). Samtale med Teknologirådet om Generativ KI og KI i utdanningssektor.
- (2023). Rundebord om kunstig intelligens ved Kunnskapsdepartement.
- (2023). RELEVANCE OF SELECTED FINDINGS OF THE 2023 GEM REPORT TO THE NORWEGIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM .
- (2023). Paneldebatt – KI, elevar og lærarar Bruken av Kunstig intelligens i skolesammenheng.
- (2023). Ki i høyere utdanning - status, visjoner og utfordringer.
- (2023). Innspill til Norsk forskningsrådet til den nye satsingen på KI forskning. Behov - hva er viktigst? Hva skal være fotavtrykket til satsingen? Hvordan kommer vi dit?
- (2023). Datafisering og plattformisering av skole og utdanning Et kritisk blikk på tekno-økonomiske imaginasjoner og kybernetiske forestillinger om utdanning og læring .
- (2023). Datafisering og plattformisering av skole og utdanning Et kritisk blikk på tekno-økonomiske imaginasjoner og kybernetiske forestillinger om utdanning og læring .
- (2023). Bruk og utvikling av KI i høyere utdanning - status, visjoner og utfordringer.
- (2022). Hva er digital kapitalisme?
- (2021). Overvåkingskapitalisme i praksis. Eksempler på kommersiell overvåking i hverdagslivet, datahandel økosystem og implikasjoner .
- (2021). Digitalteknologi som risikoteknologi. Personvern og digitalisering i skolen.
- (2020). Overvåkingskapitalismen som demokrati-utfordring .
- (2020). Overvåkingskapitalismen som demokrati-utfordring.
- (2018). Practice and engagement of the "MoJo community" – dissemination of knowledge and enthusiasm for mobile technologies in journalistic practices.
- (2017). Journalism in Transformation. From Mobile to Virtual and Hyper Realities.
- (2016). Mobile Drives Visual: Smart Mobile Technology in Journalism Practice”.
- (2020). Paneldiskusjon "Demokratisk digitalisering - en nordisk modell" kommentarer og innspill til Hilde Nagell`s bok "Digital revolusjon -hvordan ta makten og friheten tilbake?".
- (2024). Kunstig intelligens i høyere utdanning – drivkrefter, status, visjoner og utfordringer.
- (2023). Social Barriers of AI Application in Education.
- (2023). Kan vi ha demokrati i tidsalderen med big data og kunstig intelligens? Hvor står vi i dag med tanke på vår felles frihet?
- (2023). Fairness and social justice in education through algorithmic equality? AI fairness through the lenses of social (in)justice and critical theory.
- (2023). Datafication of education - constructing education and knowledge through data.
- (2022). Modul #6 Data og utdanning (DIGI 115).
- (2022). Modul #5 personvern og overvåkingsøkonomi (DIGI 115).
- (2022). Insights from the report of the Norwegian expert group for learning analytics: 4 core dilemmas.
- (2020). Zuboff`s theory of surveillance capitalism.
- (2020). Pioneer journalism - Zooming in on new agents and intermediaries in journalism innovation .
- (2018). Practice of the «MoJo community».
- (2018). New journalistic practices based on mobile technologies.
- (2018). Challenges and suggestions for a responsible design of the “AI narrator”.
- (2017). Smart Mobile Technology in Journalism Practice.
- (2017). Shared Responsibility for Manufactured Uncertainty? A critical reflection on the RRI-approach in the light of Ulrich Beck`s social theory of risks .
- (2017). Mapping the MoJo-sphere: Actors, Places, Technologies and Discussions.
- (2023). Hva må til for at utdanning og forskning lykkes med en KI-basert fremtid? Khrono.no.
- (2022). Kunstig intelligens: «En holdning som rett og slett kan være farlig». Khrono.no.
- (2021). Kunstig intelligens, klima og menneskesynet. På Høyden ( UiBs nettavis).
- (2021). Debatt: – Kunstig intelligens er en risikoteknologi. Bergens Tidende.
- (2023). Digital undervisning gjør akademisk undervisning fremfor alt lesbar for maskiner . Khrono.no.
- (2022). Kraftsenter for kunstig intelligens har flere svakheter. Khrono.no.
- (2022). Debatt: – Derfor ønsker jeg ikke å bruke Vigilo. Bergens Tidende, Debattsider.
- (2019). OBS, Facebook! – Her tar «en menneskelig komponent» ordet. Morgenbladet.
- (2019). Hvem høster Norges nye oljerikdom? Morgenbladet.
- (2019). Akilleshælen til det nasjonale digitaliseringseksperimentet. Morgenbladet.
- (2022). Responsible innovation in mobile journalism : Exploring professional journalists` learning and innovation processes.
- (2024). Spotify truer med utflagging. Spotify får ikke drive nattarbeid og truer med å flytte arbeidsplasser ut av Sverige. Sånt kan det bli mer av, tror professor.
- (2023). https://digitalnorway.com/din-digitale-skygge-hvem-kan-se-og-folge-sporene-dine-pa-nettet/.
- (2023). Forsker: – Bra for business, dårlig for demokratiet.
- (2023). Fikk A på hovedoppgave skrevet med AI: − Jeg har vært kynisk som bare f...
- (2022). Kritisk til bergensk «hallelujastemning» for kunstig intelligens.
- (2020). Podcast for Vox Publica med Anders Johansen om Overvåkingskapitalismen som demokrati-utfordring .
- (2020). Overvåkingskapitalismen som demokrati-utfordring, Intervju av Anders Johansen for Vox Publica.
- (2020). Digitale skoleløsninger uten nasjonale retningslinjer.
- (2020). Derfor vil NRK at du skal logg inn.
- (2018). Smartphone-Reporting – nicht nur Segen.
- (2022). Kunstig intelligens: Et nyttig redskap eller en trussel mot demokrati og personvern? Bibliotekaren (Oslo).
- (2020). Krever dataplan. Klassekampen.
- (2020). Hun tar kampen mot Goliath. Klassekampen.