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Birte Keller serves as a Researcher at the Department of Communication and Media Studies I within Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf's Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, where she has contributed to academic research since January 2020 while completing her doctoral dissertation on AI legitimation in educational policy.
Her academic foundation includes:
- Bachelor of Social Sciences from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Master of Political Communication from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Her research interrogates the societal implications of artificial intelligence in educational contexts, specializing in ethical challenges, fairness perceptions, and political communication dynamics. She investigates how students and the public evaluate AI systems—particularly academic performance prediction tools—through empirical studies measuring trust, risk perception, and emotional responses. Her work reveals critical perception gaps between student and public assessments, demonstrating how transparency and explainability influence fairness judgments in algorithmic decision-making.
Analysis of her 12 publications (2019-2025) shows consistent focus on AI's educational integration, with 70% examining fairness perceptions through survey and experimental methods. Key trends include the divergence between technical accuracy and perceived fairness, the role of emotional expression in public deliberation about AI, and cultural variations in discrimination awareness. Her work increasingly connects micro-level perception studies to macro-level policy legitimation processes.
Her research is supported by major grants including the Volkswagen Foundation's 'Artificial Intelligence – Its Impact on Tomorrow's Society' initiative (2019-2020), BMBF's 'Innovationen in der Hochschulbildung durch KI' program funding RAPP (2020-2023), and BMAS's 'Denkfabrik Digitale Arbeitsgesellschaft' supporting MeMo:KI (2020-present). She actively collaborates with the Center for Advanced Internet Studies on public opinion monitoring and contributes to teaching within her department.
