QUT - Academic profiles - Dr Kevin Witzenberger

Kevin Witzenberger is a research fellow at QUT’s GenAI lab and affiliate investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. His research background is grounded in science and technology studies and media theory. His work examines the skills and knowledge people need to engage with AI, the capabilities AI requires to engage with people, and the social & technical limits that constrain this relationship.

Kevin received his PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2023 where he investigated the impact of automation and AI on education governance.

kevin.witzenberger@qut.edu.au

View location details(QUT staff and student access only)

Personal details

Positions

Research Fellow
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (University of New South Wales)
Masters by Research (Lund University)

Publications

Thompson, G., Gulson, K., Swist, T. & Witzenberger, K. (2023). Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy. Learning, Media and Technology, 48(2), 240–252. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235114
Williamson, B., Gulson, K., Perrotta, C. & Witzenberger, K. (2022). Amazon and the New Global Connective Architectures of Education Governance. Harvard Educational Review, 92(2), 231–256. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248188
Gulson, K. & Witzenberger, K. (2022). Repackaging authority: artificial intelligence, automated governance and education trade shows. Journal of Education Policy, 37(1), 145–160. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248175
Gulson, K., Murphie, A. & Witzenberger, K. (2021). Amazon go for education? Artificial intelligence, disruption, and intensification. In C. Wyatt-Smith, B. Lingard & E. Heck (Eds.), Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing: Assessments, Big Data, and the Transformation of Schooling (pp. 90–106). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248176
Perrotta, C., Gulson, K., Williamson, B. & Witzenberger, K. (2021). Automation, APIs and the distributed labour of platform pedagogies in Google Classroom. Critical Studies in Education, 62(1), 97–113. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248177
Witzenberger, K. & Gulson, K. (2021). Why EdTech is always right: students, data and machines in pre-emptive configurations. Learning, Media and Technology, 46(4), 420–434. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248174
Witzenberger, K., (2018). The Hyperdodge: How Users Resist Algorithmic Objects in Everyday Life. Media Theory, 2(2), 29–51. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248189

QUT ePrints

For more publications by Kevin, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).

View more publications

Filter publications:

2024

Mitchell, P., Riedlinger, M., Burgess, J., Snoswell, A., Witzenberger, K. & Goldenfein, J. (2024). Research GenAI: Situating generative AI in the scholarly economy. Selected Papers in Internet Research 2024, AoIR - Association of Internet Researchers. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/253770
Witzenberger, K., Gulson, K. & Swist, T. (2024). Prototyping an EdTech Assessment Toolkit: Towards technical democracy. Selected Papers in Internet Research 2024, AoIR - Association of Internet Researchers. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/254226
Angus, D., Burgess, J., Bruns, A., Cohen, T., Lubicz-Zaorski, C., Nelson, L., FitzGerald, K., Foth, M., Toohey, O., Keogh, B., Genon, L. J., Barnes, N., Pearson, D., Nagappa, A., Luong, K., Di Lizio, S., Obeid, A., Stardust, Z., Harrington, S., Kirby, D., Dehghan, E., Graham, T., Witzenberger, K., Pappalardo, K., Coco, B., Watt, N., Tang, J., Jude, N., Zhu, Z., Kelly, N., Kasianenko, K., Dos Santos Choucair, T., Fituch, M., Ochoa Diaz, M., Sharmin, S., Rodriguez, A., Vilkins, S., Osman, K., Yu, X., Danby, S., Gardam, C., Keane, M., Dezuanni, M., Mitchell, P., Heda, S., Padinjaredath Suresh, V., Esau, K. & Vilela, F. (2024). QUT DMRC Submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/255156
Burgess, J., He, W., Snoswell, A. & Witzenberger, K. (2024). Unboxing GenAI: Building capacities for public understanding of Generative AI. Queensland University of Technology. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256730

2023

Thompson, G., Gulson, K., Swist, T. & Witzenberger, K. (2023). Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy. Learning, Media and Technology, 48(2), 240–252. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235114
Witzenberger, K. (2023). Automating Education: Investigating the emergence of Artificial Intelligence in education governance.

2022

Gulson, K. N. & Witzenberger, K. (2022). Repackaging authority: artificial intelligence, automated governance and education trade shows. Journal of Education Policy, 37(1), 145–160. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248175
Williamson, B., Gulson, K., Perrotta, C. & Witzenberger, K. (2022). Amazon and the New Global Connective Architectures of Education Governance. Harvard Educational Review, 92(2), 231–256. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248188

2021

Witzenberger, K. & Gulson, K. N. (2021). Why EdTech is always right: students, data and machines in pre-emptive configurations. Learning, Media and Technology, 46(4), 420–434. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248174
Gulson, K. N., Murphie, A. & Witzenberger, K. (2021). Amazon go for education? Artificial intelligence, disruption, and intensification. In Wyatt-Smith, C., Lingard, B. & Heck, E. (Eds.), Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing (pp. 90–106). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248176
Perrotta, C., Gulson, K. N., Williamson, B. & Witzenberger, K. (2021). Automation, APIs and the distributed labour of platform pedagogies in Google Classroom. Critical Studies in Education, 62(1), 97–113. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248177

2018

Witzenberger, K. (2018). The Hyperdodge: How Users Resist Algorithmic Objects in Everyday Life. Media Theory, 2(2), 29–51. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/248189

A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/kevin.witzenberger

Dr Kevin Witzenberger

Biography