Researcher in the project "The Social Life of XG: Digital infrastructures and the reconfiguration of sovereignty and imagined communities, opens an external URL in a new window" at the Institute of Sociology in the Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analyses at Johannes Kepler University Linz, where she conducts research on digitalisation and care work.

• Since 2023 research associate in the project "The Social Life of XG: Digital infrastructures and the reconfiguration of sovereignty and imagined communities" at the Institute of Sociology in the Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analyses at Johannes Kepler University Linz

• 2022 - 2023 Research assistant at the Institute of Sociology in the Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analyses at Johannes Kepler University Linz

• Since 2022 Doctoral studies in sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz

• 2021 - 2023 research assistant in the project "Digitalisation and work organisation. Narratives, practice and participation options"

• 2020 - 2022 Research assistant in the project „Platform Cleaners. The Potentials and Risks of Platform-mediated Cleaning Services in Germany“, opens an external URL in a new window

• 2017 - 2020 Science, Technology, Society at the University of Vienna (MA)

• 2013 - 2018 Mathematics at the University of Vienna (BSc)

• 2015 - 2018 MedTech - Functional Imaging, Conventional and Ion Radiotherapy at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt (MSc)

• 2010 - 2013 Radiology Technology at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg (BSc).

Research Interests:

- Technology and (un)paid work

- Platform work

- Science and Technology Studies

Courses

Summer Semester 2023 - "Work, Technology, Gender" (SE Subject Areas of Gender Studies)

Summer Semester 2023 - "Gender and Diversity in Computer Science and Engineering: Perspectives from Sociocultural Studies and Ethics" (with Aline Potiron)

Summer Semester 2023 - "Social Science Debates and Theories on Digitalisation, Gender and Social Inequalities" (with Brigitte Aulenbacher)

Winter semester 2022/23 - "Work, Technology, Gender" (SE Subject Areas of Gender Studies)

Winter semester 2022/23 - "Sociological Research Project II: Work, Technology, Society" (under the direction of Brigitte Aulenbacher and Uli Meyer, collaboration with Stefanie Raible)

Summer semester 2021 - "Sustainable Economics and Business II: Perspectives on Technology and Society for a Sustainable Future" (at the Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Gerold, Stefanie; Gruszka, Katarzyna; Pillinger, Anna; Theine, Hendrik (2022): Putzkraft aus dem Netz, opens an external URL in a new window. Perspektiven und Erfahrungen von Reinigungskräften in der plattformvermittelten Haushaltsreinigung, opens an external URL in a new window, Working Paper Forschungsförderung 259, Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 60 Seiten.

Gruszka, Katarzyna; Pillinger, Anna; Gerold Stefanie; Theine, Hendrik (2022): (De)valuation of household cleaning in the platform economy. Ecological Economic Papers; Vol.44, No. 2022. WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. https://research.wu.ac.at/ws/portalfiles/portal/25898328/WP_44.pdf, opens an external URL in a new window (pdf)

Tsiourti, Christiana; Pillinger, Anna; Weiss, Astrid (2020): Was Vector a Companion during Shutdown?: Insights from an Ethnographic Study in Austria. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 269–271. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3418767, opens an external URL in a new window

Weiss, Astrid; Pillinger, Anna; Spiel, Katta; Zauchner-Studnicka, Sabine (2020): Inconsequential Appearances: An Analysis of Anthropomorphic Language in Voice Assistant Forums. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382793, opens an external URL in a new window

Weiss, Astrid; Pillinger, Anna; Tsiourti, Christiana (2021): Merely a Conventional ‘Diffusion’ Problem? On the Adoption Process of Anki Vector. 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 712–719. https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515369, opens an external URL in a new window

Lectures and conference contributions

Click and Clean? Unraveling Platform Infrastructures of Household Cleaning, 4S annual meeting, September 2021

Gender, Feminismus und Roboter? Universität Hildesheim, Körper der Zukunft? KI und Gender in den Künsten, Mai 2021.

Gender and Feminist Aspects in Robotics and HRI, STS Konferenz Graz, Mai 2021

Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen: Plattform-Infrastrukturen im Bereich Haushaltsreinigung, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Abschlusskonferenz: Machtfragen der Digitalisierung, Jänner 2021 (mit Katarzyna Gruszka, Stefanie Gerold & Hendrik Theine)

Lovelace, Noether, Mirzakhani and so forth?! Looking for Feminism in Mathematics Exhibitions, Technisches Museum Wien, Outer Edge: Queer(y)ing STEM Collections, März 2020 (mit Arabella Denk)