Peer-reviewed Articles
Ziewitz, M. (2011). How to attend to screens? Technology, ontology and precarious enactments. Encounters 4(2): 203-228. [pdf]
Mayer-Schönberger, V. and M. Ziewitz (2007). Jefferson rebuffed: The United States and the future of internet governance. Columbia Science and Technology Law Review 8: 188. [pdf]
Earlier version published as Faculty Research Working Paper RWP 06-018 (2006), Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Book Chapters
Ziewitz, M. and I. Brown (forthcoming). A prehistory of internet governance. In Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet, ed I. Brown. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. [final draft]
Ziewitz, M. (2008). Viel Ordnung, wenig Recht: Kollaborative Selbstkontrolle als Vertrauensfaktor am Beispiel Wikipedias. In Informationelles Vertrauen für die Informationsgesellschaft, eds D. Klumpp, H. Kubicek, A. Rossnagel and W. Schulz, 173-188. Heidelberg: Springer. [pdf]
Schulz, W. and M. Ziewitz (2004). Extending The Access Obligation to EPGs and Service Platforms?. In Regulating Access to Digital Television: Technical Bottlenecks, Vertically-Integrated Markets and New Forms of Media Concentration, eds W. Closs and S. Nikolzchev, 47-58. Strasbourg: IRIS European Audiovisual Observatory. [website]
Translated to German: Schulz, W. and M. Ziewitz (2004). Ausweitung der Zugangsverpflichtung auf EPGs und Diensteplattformen? In Die Regulierung des Zugangs zum Digitalen Fernsehen, eds W. Closs and S. Nikolzchev.
Translated to French: Schulz, W. and M. Ziewitz (2004). Etendre l’obligation d’accès aux EPG et aux plateformes de services? In La régulation de l’accès à la télévision numerique, eds W. Closs and S. Nikolzchev.
Working Papers
Ziewitz, M. (2011). How to think about an algorithm? Notes from a not quite random walk. Discussion paper for Symposium on “Knowledge Machines between Freedom and Control” , 29 September 2011 (draft version). [pdf]
Ziewitz, M. (2011). Can crowd wisdom solve regulatory problems? Discussion paper for the 1st Berlin Symposium on Internet & Society, 18 September 2011 (draft version). [pdf]
Ziewitz, M. and C. Pentzold (2010). Modes of governance in digitally networked environments: A workshop report. OII Forum Discussion Paper 19. [pdf]
Research Reports
Schroeder, R., Ziewitz, M. and E. Meyer (2009). Social, ethical, and legal issues in presence research and applications. Peach FP6 Coordination Action No 33909. [pdf]
OECD Working Party on the Information Economy, Digital Broadband Content: Online Advertising, DSTI/ICCP/IE(2007)77, Paris, 20 March 2007 (co-author).
Schulz, W. and M. Ziewitz (2005). Chapter 6: “Regulierung: Technische Aspekte und Politikoptionen”. In Die Zukunft des deutschen Kabelfernsehnetzes, eds B. Beckert et al. [website]
Invited Talks & Conference Papers
“Descriptions as companions? Notes from an uneasy relationship,” American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, November 20, 2011
“Ambiguous analytics: Achieving relevance in search engine optimization,” Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, USA, November 3, 2011
“Can crowd wisdom solve regulatory problems?”, 1st Berlin Symposium on Internet an Society: Exploring the Digital Future, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany, October 27, 2011 [discussion paper] [summary by snurb.info]
“Evaluation as Governance?”, InSIS and ValueS Workshop, Saïd Business School, Oxford, UK, October 22, 2011
“Algorithm: In search of the invisible hand,” Symposium Knowledge Machines between Freedom and Control, Institute for Media Archeology, Hainburg, Austria, October 7, 2011
“How’s my feedback?,” STS Summer Workshop and How’s My Feedback? Conference, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, June 28, 2011 (with Steve Woolgar)
“How’s my feedback? Six puzzles and some thoughts on web-based review and rating schemes,” Harvard-Yale-MIT Cyberscholar Working Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, May 11, 2011
“What architecture for multi-stakeholder participation and policy-making?,” Internet Freedom Conference, Panel Speaker, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, April 19, 2011
“What is it with experience? Postings, governance and multiplicity in web-based patient feedback,” Knowledge, Innovation and E-health Research Group Seminar, Warwick Medical School, United Kingdom, March 2, 2011
“Researching search: Ethnographic stories from the search marketing industry,” Business School, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, February 2, 2011
“How to attend to screens? Mundane encounters at the int(er/ra)face,” PhD Workshop “Framing Screens: Knowledge, Interaction, Practice”, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29, 2010
“Accountability multiple? The practical politics of web-based patient feedback,” Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, August 26, 2010
“‘This is not science’: A student’s experience of STS practices at Oxford”, Workshop on Practices of Science and Technology Studies: Reflexive Takes on Cross-context Collaboration, Graduate University of Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan, August 24, 2010
“Innovation in governance as a practical accomplishment,” First Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance, Technical University Berlin, Germany, May 20, 2010
“‘Don’t push your politics on me, pal’: Understanding database practices through humour,” Values in Design Workshop 2K10, New York University, New York, USA, May 7, 2010 (with Theo Roehle)
“Order without law? – Exploring modes of governance in digitally networked environments,” Games Convention Online Conference 2009, Leipzig, Germany, August 1, 2009
“Governance and accountability in, of, and through internet-based rating schemes,” Postgraduate STS Conference 2009, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 28, 2009
“Modes of governance in digitally networked environments: Perspectives from an interdisciplinary workshop,” 2nd GigaNet Workshop on “Global Internet Governance – An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction,” Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, May 11, 2009
“Governance and accountability in/of/through internet-based rating systems,” ESRC Workshop “Imagining and Demystifying Empirical Socio-Legal Research,” Loughborough University, United Kingdom, April 6, 2009
“Let’s play: What policymakers can learn from game design”, Annual Meeting of the German Academic Merit Foundation, Oxford University, United Kingdom, Nov. 8, 2008
“Breaking new grounds: Non-legal master programs for lawyers in the U.S.”, German-American Lawyers’ Association, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany, June 30, 2007
Conference & Workshop Organisation
Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Anthropology: What is the Status of our Descriptions?, Session at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, November 20, 2011 (with Helene Ratner)
Doing the Digital: Data, Devices and the Performance of Sociality, Session at Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, November 4, 2011, Cleveland, OH, USA (with Evelyn Ruppert)
How’s My Feedback?, Conference, June 28, 2011, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (with Steve Woolgar and James Munro)
Storying: A Workshop, March 5, 2011, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (with Fadhila Mazanderani)
Modes of Governance in Digitally Networked Environments, International and Interdiscplinary Workshop, March 26, 2009, Oxford (supported by the ‘Networks for Web Science’ grant, EPSRC (EP/FO/3701/1)) (with Christian Pentzold)
