Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann

Division Communication Theory and Media Effects
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Political and Social Sciences Researcher
Professor
Office hours
By arrangement only! Please contact the secretary Antje Wolters by email: antje.wolters@fu-berlin.de
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Since 01/2017: Professor of Internet Politics, Freie Universität Berlin
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Since 01/2014: Honorary Professor of Internet Politics, Central Institute of Further Education at Universität der Künste Berlin
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Since 10/2013: Head of the Project Group "The Internet Policy Field", WZB
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Since 2013: Head of the research group "Politics of Digitalization", Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
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Since April 2012: Director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
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10/2010 to 09/2013: Member of Research Unit "Cultural Sources of Newness", WZB
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2010 to 2013: Expert member, Parliamentary Enquiry Commission Internet and Digital Society, Deutscher Bundestag
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10/2007 to 09/2010: Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation
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2003 to 2006: Member of the Collaborative Research Center 597 "Transformations of the State", Subproject "Regulation and Legitimation on the Internet", University of Bremen
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2003 to 2004: Interim professor for Politics and Communication, Department of Political Science, University Duisburg-Essen
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2000 to 2007: Fellow and Program Leader, Internet Governance, Research Units "Innovation und Organisation" & "New Forms of Governance", WZB
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1995 to 1999: Member of Project Group "Kulturraum Internet" in the Research Unit "Organization and Technology", WZB
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1992: Dr. rer. pol., Free University of Berlin, Thesis: Implizite Theorien in der Politik. Interpretationsprobleme regionaler Modernisierungspolitik. [Implicit Theories in Policy Discourse. An Inquiry into the Interpretations of Reality in German Technology Policy]
Summer term 2022:
- Seminar 28842: Was ist Digitalpolitik und kann man sie untersuchen?
Winter term 2021/22:
- Seminar 28811: Künstliche Intelligenz und Gesellschaft
Summer term 2021:
- Seminar 28841: Internet Policy
Winter term 2020/21:
- Seminar 28812: Digitalisierung und Demokratie
Summer term 2020:
- Seminar 28841: Netzpolitik
Winter term 2019/20:
- Seminar 28812: Theorien des Digitalen: Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik
Summer term 2019:
- Seminar 28811: Theorien des Digitalen: Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik
Winter term 2018/19:
- Seminar 28811: Digitalisierung und Demokratie
Summer term 2018:
- Seminar 28810: Technik - Gesellschaft - Kommunikation: Künstliche Intelligenz und die Frage gesellschaftlicher Kontrolle
Winter term 2017/18:
- Seminar 28815: Theorie und Empirie der Internetpolitik
Summer term 2017:
- Seminar 28861: Big Data: Kritik der algorithmischen Macht
Winter term 16/17:
- Seminar 28862: Democracy reloaded: Demokratieverständnisse in der digitalen Gesellschaft
Research Fields:
- Governance theory
- Internet governance
- Internet policy
- Transnational regulation
- Empirical copyright law
- Emergence of policy fields
- Digital society
- Science and technology studies
- Hofmann, Jeanette (2016): "Open Access. Ein Lackmustest". In: Thomas Dreier/Veronika Fischer/Anne van Raay/Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann (Hg.): Informationen der öffentlichen Hand – Zugang und Nutzung. Studien zur Informationsfreiheit, Bd. Bd. 3. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, S. 511-535.
- Hofmann, Jeanette/Katzenbach, Christian/Gollatz, Kirsten (2016): "Between Coordination and Regulation. Finding the Governance in Internet Governance". In: New Media & Society, advance access, 31.03.2016, online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816639975.
- Hofmann, Jeanette (2016): "Multi-Stakeholderism in Internet Governance. Putting a Fiction into Practice". In: Journal of Cyber Policy, Vol. 1, No. 1, S. 29-49.
- Hofmann, Jeanette/Bergemann, Benjamin (2016): "Die informierte Einwilligung. Ein Datenschutzphantom - Beitrag zum 20. Berliner Kolloquium der Daimler und Benz Stiftung "Der Datenmensch - Über Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung in der digitalen Welt", 11. Mai 2016". In: Spektrum der Wissenschaft Kompakt, 04.10.2016, S. 50-59.
- Kreutzer, Till/Christiansen, Per/Gehlen, Dirk von/Hofmann, Jeanette/Klimpel, Paul/Köklü, Kaya/Otto, Philipp/Schindler, Mathias/Wattig, Leander/Renner, Tim (2016): "The Berlin Gedankenexperiment on the Restructuring of Copyright Law and Author's Rights. Creators - Exploiters - Non-commercial Users - Intermediaries". In: JIPITEC - Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, Vol. 7, No. 2, S. 76-87.
- Haunss, Sebastian/Hofmann, Jeanette (2015): "Entstehung von Politikfeldern – Bedingungen einer Anomalie". In: Der moderne Staat - Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management, Jg. 8, H. 1, Schwerpunktheft "Entstehung und Wandel von Politikfeldern", herausgegeben von Sebastian Haunss, S. 29-49.
- Hofmann, Jeanette (2015): Constellations of Trust and Distrust in Internet Governance. Rochester, NY: Social Science Resarch Network. (aus: Report of the Expert Group 'Risks of Eroding Trust - Foresight on the Medium-Term Implications for European Research and Innovation Policies,TRUSTFORESIGHT', European Commission, Brussels - available at SSRN)
- Hofmann, Jeanette (2013): "Narratives of Copyright Enforcement. The Upward Ratchet and the Sleeping Giant". In: Revue française d'études américaines, No. 134/4e Trimestre 2012, S. 64-80.
- Hofmann, Jeanette (2013): "Information Governance in Transition. Lessons to Be Learned from Google Books". In: Ian Brown (Ed.): Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet. Cheltenham/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, S. 71-98.