Malte Ziewitz

Associate Professor Director, Digital Due Process Clinic

Overview

Professor Malte Ziewitz studies the changing role of science, technology, and computation in our lives—the dynamics at work, the values at stake, the design options at hand. His work is ethnographic in orientation, paying close attention to how computational technologies are established, undermined, maintained, and challenged on a daily basis. His recent work looked at the lived experiences of credit scoring subjects, the search engine optimization (SEO) industry, and attempts at algorithmic regulation. 

His research has been supported by an NSF Career Award, a McCloy Fellowship, a PGP Corporation Scholarship, and grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the NSF. At Cornell, he directs the Digital Due Process Clinic. During the 2023-2024 academic year, he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

Previously, Malte was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and Information Law Institute. He also worked as a junior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research. He holds a D.Phil. from Oxford University, an M.P.A. from Harvard University, and a First State Exam in Law from the University of Hamburg.

On research leave until January 2025

Research Focus

Science & technology studies (STS); sociology of (e)valuation; mundane governance; digital media; audit cultures; ethnography; ethnomethodology

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