.pinar_tuzcu

[pinar_tuzcu]

Researcher working at the intersections of digital infrastructures, migration, and algorithmic culture. Her work asks what justice can mean in systems designed without her in mind.

positions
postdoctoral researcher 2023 —
phd, sociology 2018 — 2023
fields
digital justice
algorithmic culture
migration & mobility
sociology of technology

[postdoctoral researcher]

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[phd, sociology]

Dissertation: placeholder title. Supervised by placeholder. Defended 2023.

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[research]

Research that takes seriously what it means to be sorted, classified, and governed by systems that do not know you.

current projects
border algorithms ongoing
platform labor & migrant workers ongoing
publications
the opacity of the algorithm 2024
digital borders and mobile subjects 2022
sorting migrants 2021

[border algorithms]

How do automated systems participate in the governance of mobility? This project examines the algorithmic infrastructures of European border management and their differential effects on migrant populations.

[platform labor & migrant workers]

Gig platforms as migration infrastructure. How platform architectures shape the conditions of migrant labor — and what workers know about the systems that govern them.

[the opacity of the algorithm]

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On the productive opacity of algorithmic systems — how illegibility functions not as failure but as design, enabling governance without accountability.

[digital borders and mobile subjects]

Journal placeholder, vol. x, 2022.

A critical examination of digital border infrastructures and the subjectivities they produce among people on the move.

[sorting migrants]

Book chapter in: placeholder, 2021.

Classification systems and their human costs. How categories of migration become lived realities.

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[teaching]

Teaching as a practice of thinking together — about technology, power, and the structures that organize everyday life.

courses
algorithms & society ws 2024
digital methods in qualitative research ss 2024
migration, media, identity ws 2023

[algorithms & society]

WS 2024 — Institution placeholder.

A seminar on the social dimensions of algorithmic systems — from recommendation engines to predictive policing. What do algorithms do, and for whom?

[digital methods in qualitative research]

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Practical and conceptual introduction to digital methods for qualitative social research. Web scraping, network analysis, digital ethnography.

[migration, media, identity]

WS 2023 — Institution placeholder.

How migration is represented, narrated, and contested in media — and how migrants themselves use media to construct identity and community.

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