Kay Cepera

Career

• since 10/2017: Research Associate at Technology Studies Group of TU Dort­mund University (since 07/22 at the Social Research Centre, TU Dortmund University)
• 11/2016 until 09/2017: Research Assistant at Technology Studies Group of TU Dort­mund University
• 09/2018: Master of Arts in Social Science Innovation Research at TU Dort­mund University
• 07/2014: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz

Lectures as research associate

• seminar „Autonomous technical systems / Big Data and Society“ (Master)
• seminar „Technology of the Web-society“ (Master)
• tutorial for the seminar „Network Theory“ (Master) 
• tutorial for the lecture „Techniksoziologie“ (Bachelor)
• tutorial for the lecture „Organizational Sociology“ (Bachelor)

• InnaMoRuhr – Concept of an Integrated Sustainable Mobility in the Ruhr Area (2020–2023, funded by Ministry of Transport of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen)
• ABIDA – Assessing Big Data (2015–2019, funded by BMBF)  
• KoRiSim – Collaborative Data and Risk Management forFuture Energy Grids – a Simulation Study (2015–2018, funded by BMBF)

• "Trust in algorithms. An empirical study of users' willingness to change behaviour." 17th Annual STS Conference Graz 2018 Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, Graz.

• "Real-Time Governance of Transportation Systems. A Simulation Study of Private Transport." 18th Annual STS Conference Graz 2019 Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, Graz.

• "Simulating governance of complex transportation systems." Social Simulation Conference 2019, Mainz

• "Personengruppen einer Pandemie." Workshop 'Krise, Verantwortung und Kontrolle' of ELISA project at RUB 2021, Bochum (held with Marlon Philipp, in collaboration with Tobias Beier)

• "InnaMoRuhr – Preliminary results and theoretical reflections." 19th Annual STS Conference 2021, online

• "Participatory workshops as a means of inclusive mobility development." 20th Annual STS Conference 2022, Graz

• "Integration technischer und sozialer Dimensionen nachhaltiger Mobilität." Wissenschaftsforum Mobilität 2022, Duisburg

• "Exploring new urban commuting – Szenarienentwicklung einer nachhaltigen und integrierten Mobilität für die UA Ruhr auf Basis eines Mixed-Method-Ansatzes." Wissenschaftsforum Mobilität 2022, Duisburg

• "On-demand-Management komplexer Systeme – Wie nachhaltige Transformation mithilfe digitaler Technik gelingen kann." DGS-Arbeitskreis Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit (SoNa) 2022, Passau

• Cepera, Kay; Konrad, Julius; Weyer, Johannes (2018): Trust in algorithms. An empirical study of users’ willingness to change behaviour. In: Getzinger, Günter, Egger, Stefanie (Hg.): Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies. Conference Proceedings of the 17th STS Conference Graz 2018. Graz: Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz, S. 38-47. DOI: 10.3217/978-3-85125-625-3

• Konrad, Julius; Cepera, Kay (2019): Real-Time Governance of Transportation Systems. A Simulation Study of Private Transport. In: Getzinger, Günter; Jahrbacher, Michaela (Hg.): Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies. Conference Proceedings of the STS Conference Graz 2019, 6 - 7 May 2019. Graz: Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz, S. 239-254  DOI: 10.3217/978-3-85125-668-0

• Cepera, Kay; Weyer, Johannes; Konrad, Julius (2019): Vertrauen in mobile Applikationen. Eine empirische Studie. TU Dortmund (Soziologische Arbeitspapiere, 58). Available online at:  http://hdl.handle.net/2003/38082.

• Weyer, Johannes; Adelt, Fabian; Hoffmann, Sebastian; Konrad, Julius; Cepera, Kay (2020): Governing the Digital Society: Challenges for Agent-Based Modelling. In: Harko Verhagen, Melania Borit, Giangiacomo Bravo und Nanda Wijermans (Hg.): Advances in Social Simulation. Looking in the Mirror. 1st ed. 2020. Cham: Springer International Publishing; Imprint Springer (Springer Proceedings in Complexity), S. 473–484. Available online at: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5 

• Konrad, Julius; Weyer, Johannes; Cepera, Kay; Adelt, Fabian (2020): Echtzeitsteuerung komplexer Systeme - Eine Simulationsstudie. TU Dortmund (Soziologische Arbeitspapiere, 57). Available online at: https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/handle/2003/39082.

• Weyer, Johannes/Kay Cepera (2022), Vertrauen in digitale Technik. Der Einfluss mobiler Apps auf die Bereitschaft zur Verhaltensänderung, Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 51, H. 6, S. 373–395.
  www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zfsoz-2021-0028/html

• Interviewee in: Wie beeinflussen Big Data und Algorithmen unsere Gesellschaft? Eine soziologische Sicht auf das Thema. "Versteckte Begleiter - Wie Big Data und Algorithmen unsere Gesellschaft beeinflussen", bachelor thesis of Felix Klein, HS Karlsruhe, 2018.