Sophia Egbert
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1200170 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sophia Egbert |
| PRENOMES | Sophia |
| SOBRENOME | Egbert |
| ASSINATURA | EGBERT S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bielefeld University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3729-0393 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Deterrence or prevention? The challenges of algorithmic crime prediction in urban spaces
Predictive policing emerged as a promise to prevent crime before it occurs. Despite the waning hype, predictive policing remains an active practice, especially in urban contexts. Drawing on ethnographic research on a predictive policing system of a German state police force, this paper examines the territorial and organizational conditions shaping the implementation and effectiveness of algorithmic crime forecasts. We develop a comparative analys…
Actionable predictions
Hopes and fears about algorithmic predictions are often rooted in the assumption that they represent a particularly actionable form of knowledge. Algorithmic predictions, the story goes, turn historical data into anticipatory actions instantly and on a large scale. Recent empirical evidence, however, casts doubt on whether algorithmic predictions are best understood as being inherently actionable. In this study, we draw on adjacent debates about …
"The Rise of "Evangelical Psychology
In September 1965, Fuller Theological Seminary opened its doors to students of psychology for the first time. By 1974, it had become the first evangelical institution of higher learning to become officially accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) for its clinical psychology program. This accreditation, a central goal from the outset, served as a model for how evangelical colleges could integrate into the broader sphere of Ameri…
Rezension
Rezension: Hannah Vermaßen (2023): Die Resonanzfähigkeit des Wirtschaftssystems für die deutsche Energiewende
Kann Technik sanktionieren? Der technische Vollvollzug von Normen als soziologisches Problem
Angesichts der zunehmenden Autonomisierung von (algorithmischen) Technologien stellt sich immer stärker die Frage, wie solche Technologien zu regulieren sind und wie sich solche Technologien regulierend auf das menschliche Zusammenleben auswirken. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird in diesem Beitrag diskutiert, inwieweit Technologien eine sanktionierende Wirkung haben können und in welchen sozio-technischen Zusammenhängen von einer technischen Sanktions…
Data integration and analysis platforms as digital platforms
In this paper, we conceptualize platforms that aim at data integration and analysis as a distinct type of digital platform. Based on the existing literature on digital platforms in general, which so far did not engage with data integration and analysis platforms, we present a definition of data integration and analysis platforms as a digital platform type in its own right. To emphasize the specificity of this platform type, we present a case exam…
The role of data integration and analysis platforms in contemporary society
This introduction to the special issue on data integration and analytics platforms provides an overview of the current importance of these platforms, with particular reference to the market leader, Palantir Technologies. In addition to the platformization of many areas of society through the use of data integration and analytics platforms, we argue that, where Palantir platforms are used, the process of ‘Palantirization’ can also be observed, bec…
Algorithmic crime prevention. From abstract police to precision policing
The growing digitisation in our society also affects policing, which tends to make use of increasingly refined algorithmic tools based on abstract technologies. But the abstraction of technology, we argue, does not necessarily entail an increase in abstraction of police work. This paper contrasts the 'abstract police' debate with an analysis of police practices that use digital technologies to achieve greater precision. While the notion of abstra…
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security
Organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to perform tasks. To do so, they have to integrate data banks to make the data usable. We argue that there is a growing, academically underexplored market consisting of data integration and analysis platforms. We explain that, especially in the public sector, the regulatory implications of data integration and analysis must be studied because they affect vulnerable citizens and because it is…
Anne K. Krüger, Soziologie des Wertens und Bewertens. Bielefeld
Employees as Corporate Influencers
Due to the disruption of the media industry, strategic communication has become increasingly important for media companies to build intangible organizational assets such as brand equity. Against this backdrop, this article sheds light on the potential role of journalists to act as corporate influencers who shape readers’ perceptions through parasocial interactions. An online survey was conducted, recruiting 461 participants via purposive sampling…
Titelseiten
Vorhersagen und Entscheiden
In vielen Organisationen kommen im Zuge der Digitalisierung Algorithmen zum Einsatz, die Vorhersagen generieren. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Auswirkungen dieser Algorithmisierung auf Entscheidungen in der Polizei am Beispiel von Predictive Policing. Unter Predictive Policing wird die zunehmende Verwendung von Prognosesoftware zur Vorhersage und Prävention kriminellen Verhaltens in Polizeiorganisationen verstanden. Ausgehend von der Differenzier…
Diskurs und Materialität
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Vorgehen für eine soziotechnisch fundierte Dispositivanalyse entworfen und am Beispiel von Drogentests illustriert
Predictive Policing als Treiber rechtlicher Innovation
In zahlreichen Polizeibehörden im deutschsprachigen Raum werden algorithmengestützte Prognosetechnologien angewendet, die vorhersagebasierte Polizeiarbeit (Predictive Policing) ermöglichen sollen. Gegenwärtig werden dabei vor allem auf Basis von polizeilichen Kriminalitätsdaten Vorhersagen über die Wahrscheinlichkeit zukünftiger Wohnungseinbruchdiebstähle für bestimmte raumzeitliche Konstellationen generiert. Diese polizeiliche Nutzung von Progno…
Associate Editor’s Introduction
Paul B, Egbert S. Associate Editor’s Introduction: Sharpening the Focus— Taking Into Account the Socio-Materiality of Drug Control and Prevention. Contemporary Drug Problems . 2021;48(4):299-304
Criminal Futures
This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland, this book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of how the police produce and act upon criminal futures as…
Predictive Policing and the Platformization of Police Work
Although the revolutionary potential of predictive policing has often been exaggerated, this novel policing strategy nonetheless implies something substantially new: the underlying methods of (crime) data analysis. Moreover, these police prediction tools matter not only because of their capacity to generate near-term crime predictions but also because they have the potential to generally enhance police-related data crunching, ultimately giving ri…
Predictive policing
For several years now, crime prediction software operating on the basis of data analysis and algorithmic pattern detection has been employed by police departments throughout the world. As these technologies aim at forestalling criminal events, they may aptly be understood as elements of preventive strategies. Do they also initiate a logic of preemptive policing, as several authors have suggested? Using the example of crime prediction software tha…
Preemptive „screening for malintent“
Predictive Policing and the Politics of Patterns
Patterns are the epistemological core of predictive policing. With the move towards digital prediction tools, the authority of the pattern is rearticulated and reinforced in police work. Based on empirical research about predictive policing software and practices, this article puts the authority of patterns into perspective. Introducing four ideal-typical styles of pattern identification, we illustrate that patterns are not based on a singular lo…
Drogentests in Deutschland
Devices of Lie Detection as Diegetic Technologies in the “War on Terror”
Although lie detection procedures have been fundamentally criticized since their inception at the beginning of the 20th century, they are still in use around the world. In addition, they have created some remarkable appeal in the context of counterterrorism policies. Thereby, the links between science and fiction in this topic are quite tight and by no means arbitrary: In the progressive narrative of the lie detection devices, there is a promise …
Predictive Policing and the Politics of Patterns
Patterns are the epistemological core of predictive policing. With the move towards digital prediction tools, the authority of the pattern is rearticulated and reinforced in police work. Based on empirical research about predictive policing software and practices, this article puts the authority of patterns into perspective. Introducing four ideal-typical styles of pattern identification, we illustrate that patterns are not based on a singular lo…
Predictive Policing and the Platformization of Police Work
Although the revolutionary potential of predictive policing has often been exaggerated, this novel policing strategy nonetheless implies something substantially new: the underlying methods of (crime) data analysis. Moreover, these police prediction tools matter not only because of their capacity to generate near-term crime predictions but also because they have the potential to generally enhance police-related data crunching, ultimately giving ri…
Predictive policing
For several years now, crime prediction software operating on the basis of data analysis and algorithmic pattern detection has been employed by police departments throughout the world. As these technologies aim at forestalling criminal events, they may aptly be understood as elements of preventive strategies. Do they also initiate a logic of preemptive policing, as several authors have suggested? Using the example of crime prediction software tha…
Associate Editor’s Introduction
Paul B, Egbert S. Associate Editor’s Introduction: Sharpening the Focus— Taking Into Account the Socio-Materiality of Drug Control and Prevention. Contemporary Drug Problems . 2021;48(4):299-304
Preemptive „screening for malintent“
Algorithmic crime prevention. From abstract police to precision policing
The growing digitisation in our society also affects policing, which tends to make use of increasingly refined algorithmic tools based on abstract technologies. But the abstraction of technology, we argue, does not necessarily entail an increase in abstraction of police work. This paper contrasts the 'abstract police' debate with an analysis of police practices that use digital technologies to achieve greater precision. While the notion of abstra…
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security
Organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to perform tasks. To do so, they have to integrate data banks to make the data usable. We argue that there is a growing, academically underexplored market consisting of data integration and analysis platforms. We explain that, especially in the public sector, the regulatory implications of data integration and analysis must be studied because they affect vulnerable citizens and because it is…
Devices of Lie Detection as Diegetic Technologies in the “War on Terror”
Although lie detection procedures have been fundamentally criticized since their inception at the beginning of the 20th century, they are still in use around the world. In addition, they have created some remarkable appeal in the context of counterterrorism policies. Thereby, the links between science and fiction in this topic are quite tight and by no means arbitrary: In the progressive narrative of the lie detection devices, there is a promise …
Drogentests in Deutschland
Predictive Policing and the Platformization of Police Work
Although the revolutionary potential of predictive policing has often been exaggerated, this novel policing strategy nonetheless implies something substantially new: the underlying methods of (crime) data analysis. Moreover, these police prediction tools matter not only because of their capacity to generate near-term crime predictions but also because they have the potential to generally enhance police-related data crunching, ultimately giving ri…
Predictive policing
For several years now, crime prediction software operating on the basis of data analysis and algorithmic pattern detection has been employed by police departments throughout the world. As these technologies aim at forestalling criminal events, they may aptly be understood as elements of preventive strategies. Do they also initiate a logic of preemptive policing, as several authors have suggested? Using the example of crime prediction software tha…
Preemptive „screening for malintent“
Predictive Policing and the Politics of Patterns
Patterns are the epistemological core of predictive policing. With the move towards digital prediction tools, the authority of the pattern is rearticulated and reinforced in police work. Based on empirical research about predictive policing software and practices, this article puts the authority of patterns into perspective. Introducing four ideal-typical styles of pattern identification, we illustrate that patterns are not based on a singular lo…
Criminal Futures
This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland, this book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of how the police produce and act upon criminal futures as…
Predictive Policing als Treiber rechtlicher Innovation
In zahlreichen Polizeibehörden im deutschsprachigen Raum werden algorithmengestützte Prognosetechnologien angewendet, die vorhersagebasierte Polizeiarbeit (Predictive Policing) ermöglichen sollen. Gegenwärtig werden dabei vor allem auf Basis von polizeilichen Kriminalitätsdaten Vorhersagen über die Wahrscheinlichkeit zukünftiger Wohnungseinbruchdiebstähle für bestimmte raumzeitliche Konstellationen generiert. Diese polizeiliche Nutzung von Progno…
Associate Editor’s Introduction
Paul B, Egbert S. Associate Editor’s Introduction: Sharpening the Focus— Taking Into Account the Socio-Materiality of Drug Control and Prevention. Contemporary Drug Problems . 2021;48(4):299-304
Titelseiten
Vorhersagen und Entscheiden
In vielen Organisationen kommen im Zuge der Digitalisierung Algorithmen zum Einsatz, die Vorhersagen generieren. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Auswirkungen dieser Algorithmisierung auf Entscheidungen in der Polizei am Beispiel von Predictive Policing. Unter Predictive Policing wird die zunehmende Verwendung von Prognosesoftware zur Vorhersage und Prävention kriminellen Verhaltens in Polizeiorganisationen verstanden. Ausgehend von der Differenzier…
Diskurs und Materialität
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Vorgehen für eine soziotechnisch fundierte Dispositivanalyse entworfen und am Beispiel von Drogentests illustriert
Anne K. Krüger, Soziologie des Wertens und Bewertens. Bielefeld
Employees as Corporate Influencers
Due to the disruption of the media industry, strategic communication has become increasingly important for media companies to build intangible organizational assets such as brand equity. Against this backdrop, this article sheds light on the potential role of journalists to act as corporate influencers who shape readers’ perceptions through parasocial interactions. An online survey was conducted, recruiting 461 participants via purposive sampling…
Rezension
Rezension: Hannah Vermaßen (2023): Die Resonanzfähigkeit des Wirtschaftssystems für die deutsche Energiewende
Kann Technik sanktionieren? Der technische Vollvollzug von Normen als soziologisches Problem
Angesichts der zunehmenden Autonomisierung von (algorithmischen) Technologien stellt sich immer stärker die Frage, wie solche Technologien zu regulieren sind und wie sich solche Technologien regulierend auf das menschliche Zusammenleben auswirken. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird in diesem Beitrag diskutiert, inwieweit Technologien eine sanktionierende Wirkung haben können und in welchen sozio-technischen Zusammenhängen von einer technischen Sanktions…
Data integration and analysis platforms as digital platforms
In this paper, we conceptualize platforms that aim at data integration and analysis as a distinct type of digital platform. Based on the existing literature on digital platforms in general, which so far did not engage with data integration and analysis platforms, we present a definition of data integration and analysis platforms as a digital platform type in its own right. To emphasize the specificity of this platform type, we present a case exam…
The role of data integration and analysis platforms in contemporary society
This introduction to the special issue on data integration and analytics platforms provides an overview of the current importance of these platforms, with particular reference to the market leader, Palantir Technologies. In addition to the platformization of many areas of society through the use of data integration and analytics platforms, we argue that, where Palantir platforms are used, the process of ‘Palantirization’ can also be observed, bec…
Algorithmic crime prevention. From abstract police to precision policing
The growing digitisation in our society also affects policing, which tends to make use of increasingly refined algorithmic tools based on abstract technologies. But the abstraction of technology, we argue, does not necessarily entail an increase in abstraction of police work. This paper contrasts the 'abstract police' debate with an analysis of police practices that use digital technologies to achieve greater precision. While the notion of abstra…
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security
Organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to perform tasks. To do so, they have to integrate data banks to make the data usable. We argue that there is a growing, academically underexplored market consisting of data integration and analysis platforms. We explain that, especially in the public sector, the regulatory implications of data integration and analysis must be studied because they affect vulnerable citizens and because it is…
Actionable predictions
Hopes and fears about algorithmic predictions are often rooted in the assumption that they represent a particularly actionable form of knowledge. Algorithmic predictions, the story goes, turn historical data into anticipatory actions instantly and on a large scale. Recent empirical evidence, however, casts doubt on whether algorithmic predictions are best understood as being inherently actionable. In this study, we draw on adjacent debates about …
"The Rise of "Evangelical Psychology
In September 1965, Fuller Theological Seminary opened its doors to students of psychology for the first time. By 1974, it had become the first evangelical institution of higher learning to become officially accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) for its clinical psychology program. This accreditation, a central goal from the outset, served as a model for how evangelical colleges could integrate into the broader sphere of Ameri…
Deterrence or prevention? The challenges of algorithmic crime prediction in urban spaces
Predictive policing emerged as a promise to prevent crime before it occurs. Despite the waning hype, predictive policing remains an active practice, especially in urban contexts. Drawing on ethnographic research on a predictive policing system of a German state police force, this paper examines the territorial and organizational conditions shaping the implementation and effectiveness of algorithmic crime forecasts. We develop a comparative analys…
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