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Sophie Wagner is a Research Fellow at the University of Vienna's Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology and a PhD student at the University of Bern. Her work focuses on the impact of automated decision-making technologies on chronically ill patients and medical professionals, critiquing techno-solutionism and exploring re-negotiations of evidence, expertise, and care. She combines visual anthropology with ethnographic filmmaking, having conducted fieldwork in Australia, Israel, and Austria.
Her research emphasizes multimodal practices, including audiovisual storytelling and creative elicitation processes with type 1 diabetes patients and healthcare workers. She is also a curator for ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna and organizes its Filmwerkstatt workshop.
Key research areas include the anthropology of health, technology and care, AI/data studies, and more-than-human futures. Her presentations address topics like datafication's impact on patient lives and ethical dimensions of emerging care assemblages.
Sophie's educational background includes a Diploma in Anthropology from the University of Vienna (2012) and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester (2013). She has taught ethnographic filmmaking and led media literacy workshops, reflecting her commitment to interdisciplinary and public-facing scholarship.
