Katja Mayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4590673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katja Mayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katja |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayer |
| SIGNATURE | MAYER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1184-595X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking Informed Consent
This article examines the ethical complexities of informed consent (IC) in participatory research, arguing that standardized, legalistic approaches fail to address the dynamic, relational nature of collaborative knowledge production. Drawing on experiences from the international participatory project CoAct conducted in Europe and Argentina, we explore how rigid IC frameworks, shaped by biomedical ethics, GDPR, and IRB resp. REC requirements often…
Playing with temptation
Citizen Social Science
This chapter explores the ways in which the roles of citizens and researchers play out in the social sciences. This is expressed by numerous overlapping and related terms, such as co-production and participatory action research, to name but two, and by the different social topics that citizen social science draws attention to. The key question this chapter seeks to explore is what does naming citizen social science as such bring to the fields of …
Framing Policy Visions of Big Data in Emerging States
Background Emerging states, such as Brazil, India, and China (the BICs), have big plans for big data and digitalization. Research has identified distinct policy visions regarding how technological advances can facilitate economic development and improve governance. Analysis This article examines how BIC governments frame data-driven ambitions across the diverse issue areas in which governments plan to use big data, as well as how they frame the r…
Policy visions of big data
Government intentions stand at the heart of debates about how big data can and should be used in the Global South. This paper provides new insights by examining the political and economic visions promoted by emerging power governments in Brazil, India and China (the BICs). Doing so is crucial as these countries not only comprise some of the world’s largest populations, but have also demonstrated their initiative in national and international prom…
Objectifying social structures
Social network analysis offers a broad range of formal and interpretative methodologies to deal with social structures, not only by discursive, but also by visual means. Sociograms, depicting social relations as nodes and lines, have played an important part in the reification of social structures since the beginnings of sociometry. This paper brings together two strands of analysis: first, a historical perspective on the development of social ne…
Policy visions of big data
Government intentions stand at the heart of debates about how big data can and should be used in the Global South. This paper provides new insights by examining the political and economic visions promoted by emerging power governments in Brazil, India and China (the BICs). Doing so is crucial as these countries not only comprise some of the world’s largest populations, but have also demonstrated their initiative in national and international prom…
Playing with temptation
Objectifying social structures
Social network analysis offers a broad range of formal and interpretative methodologies to deal with social structures, not only by discursive, but also by visual means. Sociograms, depicting social relations as nodes and lines, have played an important part in the reification of social structures since the beginnings of sociometry. This paper brings together two strands of analysis: first, a historical perspective on the development of social ne…
Policy visions of big data
Government intentions stand at the heart of debates about how big data can and should be used in the Global South. This paper provides new insights by examining the political and economic visions promoted by emerging power governments in Brazil, India and China (the BICs). Doing so is crucial as these countries not only comprise some of the world’s largest populations, but have also demonstrated their initiative in national and international prom…
Framing Policy Visions of Big Data in Emerging States
Background Emerging states, such as Brazil, India, and China (the BICs), have big plans for big data and digitalization. Research has identified distinct policy visions regarding how technological advances can facilitate economic development and improve governance. Analysis This article examines how BIC governments frame data-driven ambitions across the diverse issue areas in which governments plan to use big data, as well as how they frame the r…
Citizen Social Science
This chapter explores the ways in which the roles of citizens and researchers play out in the social sciences. This is expressed by numerous overlapping and related terms, such as co-production and participatory action research, to name but two, and by the different social topics that citizen social science draws attention to. The key question this chapter seeks to explore is what does naming citizen social science as such bring to the fields of …
Playing with temptation
Rethinking Informed Consent
This article examines the ethical complexities of informed consent (IC) in participatory research, arguing that standardized, legalistic approaches fail to address the dynamic, relational nature of collaborative knowledge production. Drawing on experiences from the international participatory project CoAct conducted in Europe and Argentina, we explore how rigid IC frameworks, shaped by biomedical ethics, GDPR, and IRB resp. REC requirements often…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Big data (2 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 works) · E-Government and Public Services (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Participatory action research (2 works)