Mag. Dr. Katja Mayer
1090 Wien
Courses
Summer term 2026
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053620 VU Data Ethics and Legal Issues
Summer term 2025
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053620 VU Data Ethics and Legal Issues
Publications
Rethinking Informed Consent: Ethical Tensions and Adaptive Practices in Participatory Research. / Wöhrer, Veronika; Malik, Mariam; Mayer, Katja et al.
In: International Journal of Qualitative Methods (IJQM), 05.2026.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
AI, Open Science, and the Extraction Imperative: A Situated Approach to the Normativities of Open Research Data. / Mayer, Katja.
In: Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society, 2026.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Citizen Science – Innovationspotenziale für eine transformative Wissenschaft. / Herrmann, Thora; Mayer, Katja; Gittig, Bea et al.
Citizen Science – Gemeinsam forschen!. Springer, 2026. p. 223-235.
Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed
Gemeinsam gestalten: Citizen Science mit Ansätzen aus den Geistes-, Kultur-, und Sozialwissenschaften, der Kunst sowie kunstbasierter Forschung. / Bartar, Pamela; Göbel, Claudia; Henke, Justus et al.
Citizen Science – Gemeinsam forschen!. 2026. p. 113–131.
Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed
Paradoxes of Openness: Power, Reciprocity, and the Governance of Scholarly Infrastructures. / Mayer, Katja.
The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices. ed. / Katja Mayer; Astrid Mager; Renée Ridgway. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2026. p. 181-206.
Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed
Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices. / Mayer, Katja; Mager, Astrid; Ridgway, Renée .
Open Book Publishers, 2026.
Publications: Book › Collection › Peer Reviewed
The Commons Approach: A Proposal for a Digital Humanist Agenda to (Re)Open Artificial Intelligence. / Mayer, Katja; Skupien, Stefan; Knaus, Jochen.
Digital Humanism. Springer, 2026.
Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed
Data Walking: Designing Tools to Build Critical Data Literacy. / Hunter, David; Jarke, Juliane; Mayer, Katja et al.
Mindtrek '25: Proceedings of the 28th International Academic Mindtrek Conference. ed. / Mila Bujic; Thomas Olsson; Velvet Spors; Mattia Thibault. ACM, 2025. p. 200-214.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Reflexivity in Co-Evaluation: From Challenges to Principles of Participatory Research Evaluation. / Mayer, Katja.
Revisiting Reflexivity: Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond. 2025. p. 273-281.
Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed
A Conversation on AI Policy, Governance, and the Making of Academic Work. Pham, Bao-Chau (Contributor); Mayer, Katja (Contributor). 2025. Reflections - Blog of the STS Department at the University of Vienna.
Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication
Projects
Large Language Models in der Strafverfolgung (LLEA)
Mayer, K. (Project Lead) & Fochler, M. (Co-Lead)
1/10/25 → 30/09/27
Project: Research cooperation
K.REX:Knowledge Recognition for Evidence eXtraction
Felt, U. (Project Lead), Mayer, K. (Co-Lead), Kronberger, S. (Scientific Project Staff) & Claus, F. (Admin)
1/12/19 → 30/11/21
Project: Research cooperation
Open data practices in the Computational Social Science
Mayer, K. (Project Lead) & Claus, F. (Admin)
1/03/19 → 31/12/25
Project: Research funding
Materiality and Temporality of Performative Speech Acts
Böhler, A. (Project Lead) & Mayer, K. (Admin)
1/10/04 → 31/12/07
Project: Research funding
Talks
THE POLITICS OF OPENNESS IN TIMES OF AI CAPTURE
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
AI Readiness and AI Resistance in Open Research Data Stewardship
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Negotiating Openness in Fragmented Data Ecologies
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The question of benefit in Citizen Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Offene Wissenschaftskulturen
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Control vs. Commons
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Partizipative Forschung und digitaler Wandel
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Vom Wandel der Sozialität im KI-Zeitalter
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Alle Register ziehen: Offenheit und Datenmacht verhandeln
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
ub:talks Open Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Commons Approach: A Proposal for a Digital Humanist Agenda to (Re)Open Artificial Intelligence
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Digital Humanism in Action
Mayer, K. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
uniMind-Workshop | "Digitale Überwachung, algorithmische Kontrolle und KI in der Arbeitswelt"
Mayer, K. (Speaker) & Christl, W. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Townhall Meeting Digitaler Humanismus
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Open Science in Decline? Data Sharing between AI commons and predatory capture.
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Openness in Dialogue: Science, Citizens, Communication
Mayer, K. (Speaker), Dörler, D. (Speaker), Kerschbaum, F. (Speaker) & Rieck, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Reclaiming Knowledge: Open Science Meets Digital Humanism
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Katja Mayer: Can Citizen Science Teach Democracy?
Mayer, K. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
The next mission: Unlocking Europe's AI Potential
Mayer, K. (Speaker), Herlitschka, S. (Speaker), Touzet, C. (Speaker) & Brammer, H. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Beyond the Hype: Re-situating AI, Power, and Democracy
Mayer, K. (Speaker) & Milan, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Negotiating Openness: The Politics of Registry Data Infrastructures in Austria
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Reimagining AI through social innovation
Mayer, K. (Speaker), SChäfer, M. T. (Speaker), Waters, G. (Speaker) & Patel, R. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
AI Act in Action: Compliance, Oversight, and Enforcement
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Re-Situating Digital Humanism: Feminist Epistemology, Critical Posthumanism, and STS Scholarship
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Digital Commons Task Force (DCTF) - Panel Discussion on European Sovereignty
Mayer, K. (Invited speaker), Naranjo, D. (Invited speaker) & van Gulik, D.-W. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Offene Forschungsdaten und KI: Wer kontrolliert, wer trägt Verantwortung?
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Openness and Participation: Building Foundations for Responsible and Inclusive Collaboration in Citizen Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Thriving open and participatory science, reluctant STS?
Mayer, K. (Speaker) & Göbel, C. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
KI und Geschlecht im öffentlichen Leben
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
In the Shadows of AI: Opening Pandora’s Black Box
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Offene Forschungsdaten und Künstliche Intelligenz: Verantwortung und Kontrolle im Spannungsfeld der knowledge commons
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Digital Humanism in Action: The Power of Knowledge Commons in Research and Innovation
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Transparency and intelligence? Advancing artificial intelligence with Open Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker), Bersch, C. (Speaker), Kersting, K. (Speaker), Sudmann, A. (Speaker) & Schielein, U. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Re-assessing “open” in Open Science and AI
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Harnessing AI in the Service of Democracy
Mayer, K. (Speaker) & Villani, C. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
AI and Democracy
Mayer, K. (Speaker) & Müller-Birn, C. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Data Literacy and Independent Research in the Post-API Age: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities for Social Network Analysis
Mayer, K. (Speaker) & Pfeffer, J. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Differential Data Equity: Observations on Infrastructuring Participation in Citizen Social Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Participatory Turns: The bumpy roads to recognition of participatory approaches in the social sciences, and lessons for citizen science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Data Ethics
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Open Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Open for Whom? The Un/intended Divides of Open Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Politics of Open Infrastructures
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Navigating the Paradox: Open Data, AI, and the Delicate Balance of Openness
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Infrastructuring Participation
Mayer, K. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Navigating the EU Data Strategy: Challenges and Opportunities for Industry and Public Authorities
Mayer, K. (Speaker), Wendehorst, C. (Speaker), Strassnig, M. (Speaker), Fülöp, T. (Speaker) & Tardieu, H. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Open science diplomacy for an ethical and trustworthy global AI
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
The Importance of Open and FAIR Data Sharing
Mayer, K. (Speaker), Dienlin, T. (Speaker) & de Jong, F. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
STREAMS. Catching Caches
Mayer, K. (Speaker) & Vadrot, A. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Dateninfrastrukturen der Künstlichen Intelligenz: Datenpolitik zwischen Offenheit und Extraktion.
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Reflecting Co-Evaluation and the Promises of Citizen Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Re-valuing Openness: contested open data practices in global machine learning
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Eingabe Künstliche Intelligenz
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Wiener Töchtertag
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
In/visibilities of inequalities in the global digital transformation
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The SDGs as opportunities and challenges for research performing organisations
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
How the influence of industry forms our political opinion: what we learn from civil society research
Mayer, K. (Speaker) & Mcintyre, A. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Digitaler Humanismus
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Challenging the understanding of roles and ownership in citizen social science: the coact experience
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Open Access im Wandel
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Opening Data - Opening Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Training the machines?
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Data science – data for science?
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Open Science Diplomacy
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Digital Technologies and Labour Market Policy: the AMS Algorithm
Cech, F. (Speaker), Mager, A. (Speaker) & Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Data Governance in Times of Crisis
Klimek, P. (Speaker) & Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Der Umgang mit Offenheit in der Wissenschaft - Informationsprodukte aus der Forschung für die Allgemeinheit
Mayer, K. (Speaker), Heck, T. (Speaker), Kullmann, S. (Speaker) & Lasser, J. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Open Science: why and how?
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
"Training Trust: Negotiating Machine Learning in Forensic Analytics in Criminal Prosecution"
Mayer, K. (Speaker) & Kronberger, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Digitaler Humanismus
Mayer, K. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Open data practices out of the spotlight: what we can learn from initiatives that collect data on the socio-political and economic impacts of the pandemic and its management
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Engaging with pandemic knowledge: open social science and policy
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Open Science: Joint Efforts for a Better Future
Mayer, K. (Speaker), Burgelman, J. (Speaker), Möller, L. (Speaker), Höne, K. (Speaker) & Meyer, N. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Management von Forschungsdaten in den Sozialwissenschaften
Mayer, K. (Speaker), Hönegger, L. (Speaker) & Blumesberger, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Co-Evaluation
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Reflexion über Citizen Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Open Science Diplomacy
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Entscheiden wir selbst im digitalen Zeitalter?
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Critical Data Studies
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
GSK-Forschungsinfrastrukturen in Österreich
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Digitale Werte und Menschliche Würde
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Digital Transformation of Austrian Humanities – accelerated?
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Reaching the hard to reach? Reflexionen und Strategien zur Einbindung von Co-Forschenden, die als schwer erreichbar gelten
Wöhrer, V. (Speaker), Buchner, T. (Speaker), Kerschhofer-Puhalo, N. (Speaker), Kieslinger, B. (Speaker) & Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Open Science in Österreich
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Co-evaluation in citizen (social) science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Encounters in Citizen Science
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
COVID-19, Big Data and civil liberties - where is the journey going?
Mayer, K. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Open Science Diplomacy
Mayer, K. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Big Open Data- Challenges and Opportunities
Mayer, K. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Digital transformation - why cities should foster their communities of practice
Mayer, K. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Machine Learning for Open Science
Mayer, K. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Open Science Fellowship
Mayer, K. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Opening Data, Opening Science
Mayer, K. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Monitoring = Power. Opening Monitoring for Empowerment
Mayer, K. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Digitale Souveränität: Der Handlungsspielraum zwischen Individuum und Gemeinschaft
Mayer, K. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Open Science - Wissen von- und für Menschen in der Gesellschaft
Mayer, K. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
To Study "Soft" Sciences
Mayer, K. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
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