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Sophie Wagner is a PhD student and Guest Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, where she has worked since 2019 under Prof. Dr. Michaela Schäuble on the "Big Data Lives: Anthropological Perspectives on Tech-Imaginaries and Human Transformations" project. Previously, she served as an assistant and lecturer at Vienna's Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology.
Education:
- Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria
- Visual Anthropology, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK
Research Interests: Her work investigates the merging of man and machine through wearable health technologies and AI narratives, analyzing shifts in societal responsibility and emergent solidarity frameworks around data access. Core domains include Visual/Media Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Medical Anthropology, and critical examinations of Memory, Power, and Justice within technological transformations.
Scientific Awards:
- No awards documented in source material
Advising and Grants: As a PhD candidate, Wagner has no listed advisees; grant involvement is unspecified beyond her "Big Data Lives" project affiliation. Her documentary filmmaking includes collaborations on Viennese social housing, circular economy, and Weltmuseum Wien's transformation.
Labs and Teams: She co-organizes ETHNOCINECA's Filmwerkstatt workshop for ethnographic filmmaking and contributes to Bern's Institute of Social Anthropology research collective, focusing on tech-imaginaries and human-machine interdependence.
