About the CST

Werner Binder

Werner Binder is an assistant professor at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic). After studies in Mannheim, Potsdam and Berlin, he earned his PhD at the University of Konstanz with a thesis on the Abu Ghraib scandal. His fields of interest are: Sociological theory, cultural sociology, textual and visual methods of interpretation, civil sphere and the analysis of public discourses, and, most recently, the sociology of artificial intelligence. Among his recent publications are “Memory Culture, the Civil Sphere and Right-Wing Populism in Germany: The Resistible Rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)” and “AlphaGo’s Deep Play. Technological Breakthrough as Social Drama”.