Mathias Denecke, PhD

I am working as a Postdoc in media studies and recently started to work on assistive technologies and ageing. Against the background of media-scholarly concepts of calculating environments as well as the debate on social reproductive labour, I focus on ambient assisted living projects in Germany. I analyse AI systems that generate patterns about the ‘behaviour’ of residents and investigate developers’ assumptions about well-being that are inscribed into the systems. I also want to trace how social reproductive labour for residents, relatives and caregivers is changing through assistive technologies. My further research interests include data labour, the ‘graying gig-economy’, and platform mediated care labour.