Assistant Professor Jernej Kaluža, PhD in Philosophy
Jernej Kaluža holds a PhD in Philosophy and is a researcher at Social Communication Research Centre and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia). His current work spans the areas of critical theory, cultural studies, communication- and journalism studies. Before joining the Faculty for Social Sciences, he had been also working as a journalist and editor (on Radio Študent, Ljubljana) for more than a decade. In the past, he worked as a young researcher at the Nova Revija Institute and as a journalist and Editor-in-chief of Radio Študent, a Slovenian alternative radio station.
He published his writings (mostly in the field of philosophy, media theory, and pop-culture) for different Slovenian (Tribuna, Mladina, Ekran, Kino, Šum) and some international journals (Deleuze and Guattari Studies, IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film, Phainomena). He co-edited the publication In the Shadow of Digital Giants: Contemporary Trends in Slovene Digital Journalism and an issue of the journal Javnost – The Public (Suplement, Vol. 28, 2021). His most current articles on algorithmic personalisation and dataified empiricism intervene in the fields of critical data studies, public sphere theory and philosophy of technology.
Recent Publications
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Kaluža Jernej (2024). Datafied Empiricism Versus Normative Publicness: A Philosophical Grounding for Assessing the Influence of New Technologies on the Digital Public Sphere. Javnost - The Public, 31(1), 106–122. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2024.2320534.
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Kaluža, Jernej (2023). “Hume’s Empiricism versus Kant’s Critical Philosophy (in the Times of Artificial Intelligence and the Attention Economy)”. Információs Társadalom 23 (2): 67–82.
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Kaluža Jernej (2022). Far-reaching effects of the filter bubble, the most notorious metaphor in media studies. AI and Society. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-022-01399-x
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Kaluža Jernej (2022). Habitual Generation of Filter Bubbles: Why is Algorithmic Personalisation Problematic for the Democratic Public Sphere? Javnost – The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, Taylor and Francis, DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2021.2003052