Mike Zajko
Assistant Professor, Sociology – University of British Columbia
Kelowna, BC, Canada

CURRICULUM VITAE

Completed Education

PhD in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta

B.A. Honors and M.A. in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary

Publications

Zajko, M. (forthcoming). Translating Law and Code in Government: Algorithmic Decisions and Their Legal Effects in Canada. Science, Technology & Human Values.

Zajko, M. (forthcoming). Autocompleting Inequality: Large language models and the ‘alignment problem'”. Journal of Digital Social Research.

Zajko, M. (2023). Automated Government Benefits and Welfare Surveillance. Surveillance & Society, 21(3).

Zajko, M. (2023). AI as automated inequality: Statistics, surveillance and discrimination. In S. Lindgren (Ed.), Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Zajko, M. (2023). Commanding the heights: Governing valley terrain. In L. L. Aguiar, D. Senese, & D. E. French (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Valleys: Social Science Perspectives. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Zajko, M. (2022). Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates. Sociology Compass, 16(3).

Zajko, M. (2022). Book Review of Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms by Massimo Airoldi. Social Forces, 101(2).

Zajko, M. (2021). Telecom Tensions: Internet Service Providers and Public Policy in Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Zajko, M. (2021). Conservative AI and social inequality: Conceptualizing alternatives to bias through social theory. AI & Society.

Zajko, M. (2018). Internet Service Providers as Privacy Custodians. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 33(3), pp. 401-423.

Zajko, M. (2018). Security against Surveillance: IT Security as Resistance to Pervasive Surveillance. Surveillance & Society, 16(1), pp. 39-52.

Zajko, M. (2016). Telecom Responsibilization: Internet Governance, Surveillance, and New Roles for Intermediaries. Canadian Journal of Communication, 41(1), pp. 75–93.

Zajko, M. (2015). The Copyright Surveillance Industry. Media and Communication 3(2), pp. 42-52.

Zajko, M. (2015). Canada’s cyber security and the changing threat landscape. Critical Studies on Security 3(2), pp. 147-161.

Zajko, M. (2012). Book Review of Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials (3rd ed.) by Gillian Rose. Canadian Review of Sociology 49(4), pp. 449-451.

Zajko, M. (2012). Climate change and extreme weather as risk and consequence. In A. Mica, A. Peisert, & J. Winczorek (Eds.), Sociology and the unintended: Robert Merton revisited. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Zajko, M. (2011). The shifting politics of climate science. Society, 48(6), pp. 457-461.

Zajko, M. and Béland, D. (2008). Space and protest policing at international summits. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(4), pp. 719-735.