Madeleine Knauss

I’m a third-year student at the University of Alberta studying Science, Technology and Society.

This site is a space to document what I’m learning, reflect on ideas that interest me, and share university & personal projects.

Through my interdisciplinary coursework and experience conducting ethnographic research, I’ve gained interest in the following areas:

Local ethnography, people-centred research, long-form data
How data is used to inform environmental and energy policy
Mass surveillance, privacy, AI, social media
Science communication and dialogic community engagement
How technologies, particularly AI and social media, shape intimate relationships and gender dynamics
How people interact with spaces; how social systems are shaped by physical ones
Philosophy of mind & AI