Juliane Jarke

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Juliane Jarke is Professor of Digital Societies at the University of Graz. She received her PhD from Lancaster University and has a background in Computer Science, Philosophy, and STS. Her research attends to the transformative power of digital technologies such as AI-based systems in the public sector, education and for ageing populations. Theoretically and conceptually, Juliane’s research is situated in the areas of critical data studies, new materialism and feminist STS. Amongst others, she has co-edited special issues on “Designing Postdigital Futures” in Postdigital Science and Education and on Care-ful Data Studies (Information, Communication and Society). Her latest co-edited books include Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions and Politics (Amsterdam University Press) and Dialogues in Data Power: Shifting Response-abilities in a Datafied World (Bristol University Press). Juliane is co-organiser of the Data Power Conference series and Co-PI in the research unit Communicative AI: The Automation of Societal Communication.

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Portrait photo of Juliane Jarke ©SBESS/Wolf
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Juliane Jarke, Institut für Soziologie. Foto: SBESS/Wolf

Selected publications:

  1. Jarke, J., & Manchester, H. (2025). Datafied Ageing Futures: Regimes of Anticipation and Participatory Futuring. Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241306363  
  2. Jarke, J. & Büchner, S. (2024). Who cares about data? Data care arrangements in everyday organisational practice. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2320917 
  3. Jarke, J. & Heuer, H. (2024). Reassembling the Black Box of Machine Learning: Of Monsters and the Reversibility of Foldings. In: Jarke, J., Prietl, B., Egbert, S., Boeva, Y., Heuer, H. & Arnold, M. (Eds). Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions, Politics. Amsterdam University Press, 103–106. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11895528.7 
  4. Zakharova, I. & Jarke, J. (2022). Educational Technologies as Matters of Care. In: Learning, Media and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.2018605  
  5. Jarke, J., & Macgilchrist, F. (2021). Dashboard stories: How the narratives told by predictive analytics reconfigure roles, risk and sociality in education. Big Data & Society, 8 (1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211025561