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Stefania Ionescu receives one of this year’s FAN Awards for her dissertation «Society as a Stakeholder: Understanding the Societal Impact of Systems Allocating Visibility Algorithmically». Congratulations!
The FAN Awards honor early career researchers at UZH for outstanding scientific achievements in the humanities, social sciences, law and economics, medicine and natural sciences.
Stefania Ionescu, Postdoc at the Department of Informatics, receives the FAN Award in the field of law and economics for her dissertation «Society as a Stakeholder: Understanding the Societal Impact of Systems Allocating Visibility Algorithmically».
The dissertation «Society as a Stakeholder: Understanding the Societal Impact of Systems Allocating Visibility Algorithmically» was supervised by Prof. Dr. Anikó Hannák.
The rapid digitalization of the past decades drastically increased the amount of information we interact with. An algorithmic layer helps filter, search, and recommend the information we seek. These tools decide what is visible to us from the digital sea of information. In her work, Stefania refer to these tools as visibility allocation systems (VASs).
Just two examples of her analysis: On social media, VASs can affect the level of fairness in the income of content creators. In school choice and refugee assignment could lead to new types of strategic behavior of social institutions. «Society as a Stakeholder: Understanding the Societal Impact of Systems Allocating Visibility Algorithmically» exposes how VASs impact society.
