Malte Ziewitz Bio

Malte Ziewitz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. An ethnographer and sociologist, he studies the changing role of governance and regulation in, of, and through digitally networked environments. His recent work looks at the use of patient feedback in the British hospitals, the search engine optimization industry, and people’s attempts to repair a broken credit score. At Cornell, he directs the Digital Due Process Clinic, a clinical research program that helps ordinary people to cope with, understand, and challenge automated scoring systems.