Bereich: Forschungspolitik & Entwicklung

Funktionen am ZSI: Scientific project manager

Kontakt:

• Email: kmayer@zsi.at

Publikationen:

• CfP: Citizen Social Science: Active Citizenship Versus Data Commodification (2019) (Primär Autor)
• CfP: Critical Data and Algorithm Studies (2019) (Primär Autor)
• Austrian Research and Technology Report 2019 (2019) (Primär Autor)
• Fostering the Sustainable Development Goals in Horizon Europe (2019) (Primär Autor)
• Offene Wissenschaft braucht offene Infrastrukturen (2019) (Primär Autor)
• Twitter's tampered samples: Limitations of big data sampling in social media (2018) (Primär Autor)

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte:

Rapporteur Mutual Learning Exercise - Open Science – Altmetrics and Rewards

Science and technology studies, social studies of social sciences, open science, citizen social science, social technologies, computational social sciences, critical data studies, digital methods, qualitative social research, knowledge production, visual cultures, science communication, responsible research and innovation

Laufende und abgeschlossene Projekte:

• CoAct - Co­designing Citizen Social Science for Collective Action (2020, Projektleitung)
• DigHum - Mapping Digital Humanities in Österreich (2019, Projektleitung)
• FTB - Austrian Research and Technology Report 2019-2022 (2018)
• S4D4C - Using science for/in diplomacy for addressing global challenges (2018)
• SDGs in FP9 - Fachliche Unterstützung betreffend Implementierung der Sustainable Development Goals ins neue EU-Forschungsrahmenprogramm FP9 (2017, Projektleitung)
• Excellence-in-ReSTI - Excellence in research, social and technological innovation project management (2017)
• MLE Open Science - PSF Mutual Learning Exercise on Open Science (2017, Projektleitung)
• KNOWMAK - Knowledge in the making in the European society (2017)

Weitere Publikationen:

• Peer reviewed (selection)

Pfeffer, Jürgen, Katja Mayer, and Fred Morstatter: Tampering with Twitter’s Sample API. EPJ Data Science 7.1 (2018): 50. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0178-0

Mahrenbach, Laura C., Katja Mayer, and Jürgen Pfeffer. "Policy visions of big data: views from the Global South." Third World Quarterly (2019): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2018.1509700

Mayer, Katja, Kieslinger, Barbara, & Schäfer, Teresa. Open and participatory citizen social science for evidence-based decision making. Proceedings Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2018. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1479273

Katja Mayer: Netzwerkvisualisierungen. Anmerkungen zur visuellen Kultur der historischen Netzwerkforschung. in: Linda Keyserlingk, Marten Düring, Martin Stark, Ulrich Eumann (Eds.) Historische Netzwerkanalyse. LIT Verlag 2016. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.48745

Fred Morstatter, Jürgen Pfeffer, Katja Mayer, Huan Liu: Text, Topics, and Turkers: A Consensus Measure for Statistical Topics, ACM Proceedings of Hypertext 2015. DOI 10.1145/2700171.2791028

Karin Buschmann, Stefan Kasberger, Peter Kraker, Katja Mayer, Falk Reckling, K. Rieck, M. Vignoli: Open Science in Österreich: Ansätze und Status. In: Information. Wissenschaft & Praxis 2015; 66(2–3): 1–9. DOI 10.1515/iwp-2015-0025

Katja Mayer and Judith Simon: Desired Becomings: The Critical Power of Free Software, in: Journal of Peer Production 3, 2013. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.200236

Katja Mayer: Objectifying Social Structures, in: Theory & Psychology April 2012 22: 162-178. DOI 10.1177/0959354311427488

Katja Mayer: Scientific images? How touching! In: Science, Technology and Innovation, Vol 7, 1, 2011. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.200234

Mihai Lupu, Katja Mayer, John Tait, Antony Trippe (Eds.): Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval, Springer Heidelberg 2011. DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-53817-3

• Non-peer reviewed (selection)

Katja Mayer, Sabina Leonelli, Kim Holmberg, Frank Miedema: Mutual Learning Exercise: Open Science — Altmetrics and Rewards. European Commission 2018 https://doi.org/10.2777/468970

Katja Mayer and Eduard Aibar: Open Science in Practice - STS approaches to open cultures in research. EASST Review, 35(4), Dec 2016. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.200180

Katja Mayer and Lisa Sigl: Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice. Oead News, 2016 (101), 10–12. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.200181

Katja Mayer: Open Science Policy Briefing, ERA Austria, 2015. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.200187

Bruno Bauer, Guido Blechl, Christoph Bock, Patrick Danowski, Andreas Ferus, Anton Graschopf, Thomas König, Katja Mayer, Falk Reckling, Katharina Rieck, Peter Seitz, Herwig Stöger, Elvira Welzig: Recommendations for an Austrian Open Access Strategy, OANA Nov 2015. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.34079.

Katja Mayer: From Science 2.0 to Open Science - Turning rhetoric into action?  EEE Computer Society Special Technical Community on Social Networking E-letter, 3(1) 2015. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.200188.

Katja Mayer, Thomas König, Helga Nowotny: Horizons for Social Sciences and Humanities Mykolas Romeris University Publishing 2014. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.200186

Thomas König and Katja Mayer: Obstacles to Integration. In: Research Europe, Nov 2013.

Katja Mayer: Network visualization. Historical fragments of a visual culture. In: Füllsack (Ed.): Networking Networks. Turia und Kant Wien, 7-27, 2013

Katja Mayer: Imag(in)ing Social Networks. Zur Epistemischen Praxis der Visualisierung Sozialer Netzwerke. Dissertation, University of Vienna 2011, URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubw:1-29347.09259.160169-1

Katja Mayer: The sociometry of search engines, in: Becker, Stalder (Eds.): Deep Search, Studien Verlag, Innsbruck 2009. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.199100

Katja Mayer: Imag(in)ing Networks, in: E. Kingma, G. Lovink , S. Niederer , R. Rogers , J. Simons (Eds.): New Network Theory, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2007. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.199115

Katja Mayer: Who shall survive? Die Netzwerke des Jacob L. Moreno, in: G. Werner and H. Bredekamp (Hg.): Bildwelten des Wissens 5.1: Systemische Räume, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2007. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.49545

Teilnahme an folgenden Veranstaltungen:

• 1st Vienna Symposium on Machine Learning in Biology & Medicine - CeMM Seminar Rooms, Level 8
  05. 06. 2019 - 05. 06. 2019
• Open Research Analytics - Technical University of Denmark
  28. 03. 2019 - 28. 03. 2019
• Digitale Souveränität: Der Handlungsspielraum zwischen Individuum und Gemeinschaft - Biberstraße 20, 1010 Wien
  13. 03. 2019 - 13. 03. 2019
• Open Science in "Horizon 2020" & "Horizon Europe" - Vienna
  16. 01. 2019 - 16. 01. 2019
• S4D4C’s 1st Global Networking Meeting - Madrid
  12. 12. 2018 - 14. 12. 2018
• Conference on Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda - Vienna
  28. 11. 2018 - 29. 11. 2018
• Open science conference 2018, Back-to-Back Belgium-European Commission - Palace of the Academies, Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels
  21. 11. 2018 - 21. 11. 2018
• EaP PLUS High-Level Seminar on Research and Innovation Policy - Vienna, Athens
  12. 10. 2017 - 13. 10. 2017

Ausbildung und beruflicher Werdegang:

Katja Mayer was trained as sociologist and works at the intersection of science-technology-society. She studies the interactions of social scientific method and its publics. In her academic research she is currently investigating practices in Computational Social Science and Big Data. As an active member of Open Knowledge and the Open Access Network Austria OANA she promotes open access to scientific knowledge production and open policies for science and technology.