© Patrick Gratzer

Patrick Gratzer MA Project Assistant   E: gratzer@mdw.ac.at

Academic Education & Career

Since April 2023: Project Assistant at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw)

2021 – 2022: Staff member at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in the communication/coordination office

2015 – 2020: MA Sociology (University of Vienna)

2011 – 2015: BA Sociology (University of Vienna)

2010 – 2012: Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)

 

Research Focus

• Technology & Social Theory, through the example of anti-dualist theories of technology (actor-network theory, techno-pragmatism, postphenomenology)
• Technology & Subjectification, through the example of self-tracking apps and wearables („Quantified Self“)
• Conceptualisation of the Social, through the example of dualist and anti-dualist approaches

 

Ongoing Research Project (collaboration)

• “Humans and Recommender Systems: Towards a Mutual Understanding” (funded by FWF)
• focus on music reception, streaming and music recommender systems