Anders Koed Madsen

PhD fellow
Anders Koed Madsen

Department of Organization

Kilen, Kilevej 14 A, K4.50
2000 Frederiksberg

Tel.: +45 3815 2880
Cell phone: +45 6128 7747
Fax:+45 3815 2828
E-mail: akm.ioa@cbs.dk

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I am interested in controversies surrounding emerging technologies (e.g. nanotechnology, synthetic technology, surveillance technology) and how ´online social data´ can be utilized as a source to better understand and anticipate the dynamics around such debates.

By social data online I am referring to digital objects such as links, tags, pictures, log files and blog-comments that are increasingly left by people on the web as part of their everyday life. Essential characteristics of such data is that it is tracable and easy to synthesize and visualize through different kind of information-management tools. This seems to provide the possibility to harness the ’collective intelligence’ of the web in understanding social dynamics.

My research is on the one hand focused on whether such data and tools can improve organizational practices of policy-making and on the other hand on the implicit politics and epistemology in the way these tools operate.

Primary research areas

Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Internet Studies
Collective Intelligence & Theories of Emergence
Organizational Studies
Theories of Knowledge-Management
Philosophy of Science & Methodology
Democratic Theory & E-democracy

Selected publications

Academic work

Anders Koed Madsen (2010). Technologies of Knowledge-Management as Policy Enablers?, MA Thesis at University of Illinois at Chicago

Anders Koed Madsen (2009). “Norms, technology and information: Pondering the choices of European 'e-participation'”, paper presented at the international conference "Citizen Politics: Are the New Media Reshaping Political Engagement?" in Barcelona, May 2009.Official Reports Paper for Barcelona conference - Anders Koed Madsen

Official Reports

Anders Koed Madsen, Søren Gram & Ulla Vincentsen (2008), “NANO – Publikums holdninger til nanoteknologi” (NANO – The opinion of the audience), report from a scientific theater, can de downloaded from http://www.tekno.dk/pdf/projekter/p08_nanoteater.pdf

Jens Schippl, Ida Leisner, Per Kaspersen & Anders Koed Madsen (2008). ”The Future of European long-distance transport - Scenario Report”. Published by STOA at http://www.itas.fzk.de/deu/lit/2008/scua08c.pdf

Anders Koed Madsen, m.fl. (2007). ”Trans-national Future Dialogs – European Energy Futures. Published by ForSociety and can be obtained through The Danish Board of Technology

Full publication list (pdf)

Last updated by Soeren Vidmar 06/09/2010