Dr. Anne Mollen
Research assistant
Department of Communications
Room: 214
Bispinghof 9-14
D-48151 Münster
Phone: +49 251 83-24259
anne.mollen@uni-muenster.de
Consultation hours
by appointment
Research interests
- Digitisation, democray and society
- Socio-technical systems and data-centred technologies
- Digitisation and sustainability
- Automation, algorithms, Machine Learning and Artifiial Intelligence
- Media appropriation and media practices
Short CV
Anne Mollen’s research focuses on sustainability and digitalisation as well as automation in media communication and data-centric technologies. She studied Communication and Political Science at WWU Münster (B.A.) from 2006 to 2009 and International Communications at the University of Leeds (M.A.) from 2009 onwards. She then worked as a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Centre 597 „Transformations of the State“ at the University of Bremen, where she worked in a project on the Transnationalisation of public spheres in the European Union. She received her PhD in 2018 with a thesis on the socio-technical constitution of digital communicative spaces. She was the chair of YECREA from 2016 to 2018.
As a digitisation expert, Anne Mollen has advised various bodies on issues of sustainability and digitisation, for example the Bundestag parliamentary group of "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen", the Centre for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (ZVKI) or as part of a G7 multi-stakeholder conference organised by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport. She is a member of the Sustainable AI working group of the German Committee for Sustainability Research. From 2021 to 2022, she was Senior Policy & Advocacy Manager at the civil society organisation AlgorithmWatch. In this role, she researched, published and developed policy recommendations on automation in the workplace, public sector and on sustainability. She continues to advise the organisation and leads the project "SustAIn: The Sustainability Index for Artificial Intelligence".
Research project
SustAIn: The Sustainability Index for Artificial Intelligence
How sustainable is Artificial Intelligence? At this point in time, we are aware that a lot of energy is needed in the development and application of AI, that so-called click workers classify data sets for training AI systems under very poor working conditions and that these systems quite often reinforce existing patterns of discrimination. In view of an increasing number of AI systems in use, there is an urgent need to discuss how AI can be made more sustainable. This is where the project SustAIn comes in.
Publications
- . (). Implementing employee interest along the Machine Learning Pipeline. In (Eds.), Artificial intelligence, labour and society (pp. 95–103). Brüssel: ETUI.
- . (). Broadening the perspective for sustainable Artificial Intelligence: Sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 66. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101411.
- . (). Transnational Fairness in Machine Learning: A Case Study in Disaster Response Systems. Minds and Machines, 34, Article 11. doi: 10.1007/s11023-024-09663-3.
- . (). Von der Risikobegrenzung zur Beteiligung – Automatisierte Entscheidungssysteme am Arbeitsplatz. (Working Paper Forschungsförderung 313). Düsseldorf: Hans Böckler Stiftung.
- . (). Algorithmic transparency and accountability in the world of work: A mapping study into the activities of trade unions. Berlin: International Trade Union Confederation.
- . (). From risk mitigation to employee action along the Machine Learning Pipeline. (Working Paper Forschungsförderung 287). Düsseldorf: Hans Böckler Stiftung.
- . (). Nachhaltige KI und digitale Selbstbestimmung: Voraussetzungen für einen selbstbestimmten und nachhaltigen Umgang mit KI im Alltag. (CODINA Impulspapier). Berlin.
- . (). Wie funktionieren Online-Plattformen. Unabhängige Forschung braucht Datenzugang. (Digital Autonomy Hub Policy Brief 6). Berlin.
- . (). Algorithmenbasierte Diskriminierung. (Algorithmenbasierte Diskriminierung. Digital Autonomy Hub Policy Brief 5). Berlin.
- . (). Nachhaltigkeitskriterien für künstliche Intelligenz. (Schriftenreihe des IÖW 220/21).
- . (). Digitale Selbstbestimmung. Eine begriffliche Abgrenzung für eine menschenzentrierte Digitalpolitik. (Digital Autonomy Hub Policy Brief 4). Berlin.
- . (). Digital Spaces of Civic Communication – The Practices and Interfaces of Online Commenting. Wiesbaden. Springer VS. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-27515-0.
- . (). Audiences’ coping practices with intrusive interfaces. In (Eds.), The Future of Audiences: A foresight analysis of interfaces and engagement. (pp. 43–60). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-75638-7_3.
- . (). The Communicative Construction of Europe. Basingstoke. Palgrave Macmillan.
- . (). ‘Please stay frustrated!’ The politicisation of media technologies in the German NSA debate. In (Eds.), Journalism and the NSA Revelations: Privacy, Security and the Press. (pp. 113–127). London: IB Tauris.
- . (). Intersecting audience activities: An audience studies perspective on the materiality of design, platforms and interfaces. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 13(1), 360–373.
- . (). Nationalizing Europe regionally – The Europeanization of public spheres in regional newspaper reporting and the “crisis” in Europe. In (Eds.), Media and Communication on Europe. (pp. 13–32). Berlin: Logos Verlag.
- . (). ‘I hope that the whole thing will not collapse’: Understanding and overcoming the EU financial crisis from a citizens’ perspective. In (Eds.), Money talks. (pp. 189–208). Bristol: Intellect Books.
- . (). Europe beyond the Crisis? Citizens’ (re)actions on the Multi-segmentation of the European public sphere. In (Eds.), The European Public Sphere – from critical thinking to responsible action. (pp. 69–84). Lausanne: Peter Lang.