Edited volume on "Datafied Decision-Making"

On January 28th and 30th, Johanna Grosche, Alexandra Lorch and Nelly Saibel (Schaufler Kolleg) hosted a two-day workshop to discuss the submissions for the edited volume on Datafied Decision-Making, creating a space for interdisciplinary and international collaboration in the humanities and social sciences. 

Responding to ongoing academic discourses on datafied decision-making, the edited volumes examines the datafication of political, legal and environmental decision-making processes. The anthology seeks to unpack the influence of socio-technical decision-making on governance, power relations and social norms from a discursive and reflective interdisciplinary perspective. 

The edited volume is the result of a widely distributed call for abstracts from the summer of 2025 and has attracted a large number of high-quality international submissions. Initially, the edited volumes was planned to be bilingual. However, the editors decided to switch to an English only anthology, reflecting the international scope of the project. The contributions are from the disciplines like law, environmental studies, science and technology studies, anthropology, ethnology, critical data studies, post-colonial studies, philosophy and political science. The authors are situated in Canada, Taiwan, Europe, India and the USA. The submissions cover topics such as algorithmic decision-making and criminal law sentencing, the politics of decision-making in Belizian Healthcare, Datafied Politics of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Critical Data Studies from the Global South.