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Department of Communication and Media Research Science Communication

Saba Rebecca Brause

Saba Rebecca Brause, MA

  • Assistentin / Research and Teaching Assistant
Phone
+41 44 635 20 43
Room number
AND 3.19

Curriculum Vitae

since 10/2021                                  Doctoral research assistant in the SNF project “Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: The Communicative Constructin of AI in China, Germany and the US” at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich, Switzerland
2018 - 2021 Research assistant in the research group ‘Work & cooperation in the sharing economy’, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
2017 - 2018 MSc in Social Science of the Internet, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
2014 - 2016 Master`s degree in Communication, Sciences Po Paris (cum laude), France
2011 - 2014

Bachelor of Sciences Po Paris, Franco-German European campus in Nancy, France; includes: 2013/2014: Study Year Abroad, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Current research interests

  • Social construction of technology
  • Social & communicative construction of Artificial Intelligence
  • Sociotechnical imaginaries
  • Computational methods
  • Quantitative methods

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Brause, S. R., & Blank, G. (2023). ‘There are some things that I would never ask Alexa’ – privacy work, contextual integrity, and smart speaker assistants. Information, Communication & Society, 27(1), 182–197. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2193241

Brause, S. R. & Blank, G. (2020). Externalized domestication: Smart speaker assistants, networks and domestication theory. Information, Communication & Society, 23(5), 751-763. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1713845

 

Peer-reviewed handbook chapters and conference proceedings

Brause, S. R., Zeng, J., Schäfer, M. S., & Katzenbach, C. (2023). "Chapter 24: Media representations of artificial intelligence: surveying the field". In Lindgren, S. (Eds.) Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence (pp.277-288). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803928562.00030

Kröger, J. L., Gellrich, L., Pape, S., Brause, S. R., & Ullrich, S. (2022). Personal information inference from voice recordings: User awareness and privacy concerns. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2022(1), 6–27. https://doi.org/doi:10.2478/popets-2022-0002 

Conference presentations and workshop papers

Zeng, J., Mahl, D., Brause, S. R., & Schäfer, M. S. (2024). Visions of AI in the Public Eye: Comparing News Coverage in China, Germany, and the U.S. (2012-2021). Annual Conference of the Science Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), 6-7 June 2024, Zurich, Switzerland.

Zeng, J., Mahl, D., Brause, S. R., & Schäfer, M. S. (2024). Comparing AI Controversies: A Multilingual Examination of News Coverage in China, Germany, and the U.S. (2012-2021). "Shifting AI Controversies" Conference, 29-30 January 2024, Berlin, Germany. (Non-presenter)

Richter, V., Katzenbach, C., Dergacheva, D., Kuznetsova, V., Brause, S.R., Schäfer, M., & Zeng, J. (2023) Who is shaping AI debates and trajectories? Stakeholders and their Imaginaries of AI in US- and German Social and News Media. International Colloquium “(Un)Stable Diffusions”, 23-24 May 2023, Montreal, Canada.

Brause, S.R., Schäfer, M., Katzenbach, C., Mao, Y., Zeng, J., Richter, V., Dergacheva, D. (2023) Public Imaginaries of Technologies: Conceptual Framework and Empirical Illustrations. 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). 25-29 May 2023, Toronto, Canada.

Brause, S.R., Katzenbach, C., Mao, Y., Richter, V., Schäfer, M.S., Zeng, J. (2022) Public Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: Conceptualising Public Debates about AI. Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), 6-9 July 2022, Madrid, Spain.

Brause, S. R. & Blank, G. (2021) “There are some things that I would never ask Alexa” – Privacy and Smart Speaker Assistants. 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Virtual, 6-10 August 2021.

Brause, S. R. & Edwards, S. (2021) ’Delivering at the Limits’ – A Framing Analysis of a German Trade Union’s Campaign for Platform Food Delivery Workers. British Universities Industrial Relations Association 2021 Conference, Virtual, 13-15 July 2021.

Taş, S., Brause, S. R., Stocker, V., Wiewiorra, L. (2021) Who cares to share? Exploring the sharing economy in Germany. International Telecommunications Society Europe 2021 Conference, Virtual, 21-23 June 2021. (Non-presenter)

Brause, S. R. & Edwards, S. (2021) ’Delivering at the Limits’ – A Framing Analysis of a German Trade Union’s Campaign for Platform Food Delivery Workers. Against Platform Determinism Workshop (organized by Data & Society and the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, McGill University), Virtual, 3 March 2021.

Brause, S. R. & Blank, G. (2020) Privacy concerns and protective behaviour for Smart Speaker Assistants. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Virtual, 18-21 July 2020. 

Brause, S. R. & Blank, G. (2019). Smart Voice Assistants: Early Adopters’ Uses and Implications for the Study of the Internet. American Sociological Association, New York, 10-13 August 2019