Book Launch: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century (Routledge 2025)
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
21 November 2025 (14:00-15:30 GMT)
Online
About the Event
The widespread development of artificial intelligence and algorithmic solutions is one of the most important contemporary phenomena, having an overwhelming impact on social and cultural life in the 21st Century.
This seminar will launch the new edited volume, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century, edited by D Brzeziński, K Filipek, K Piwowar, M Winiarska-Brodowska.
The book aims to discuss the consequences of the massive implementation of artificial intelligence and algorithmic solutions, with an emphasis on new ways of theorizing emerging social phenomena.
The event will be attended by the editors of the book, authors of selected chapters, as well as prominent researchers of contemporary algorithmisation as commentators.
- Dariusz Brzeziński – Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Theoretical Sociology Department, and visiting research fellow, University of Leeds, UK
- Małgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska – Assistant Professor, Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University, Poland, and Vice-President of the European Communication Research and Education Association
- Robert Seyfert – Professor of Sociology, Kiel University, Germany
- Nicolas Chartier-Edwards – PhD Candidate, INRS in Politics, Science and Technology, Quebec, Canada
- Noortje Marres – Professor in Science, Technology and Society, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK
- David Beer – Professor of Sociology, University of York, UK
Registration
This event is free to attend but registration is required.