Former Team Members

Erik Meyer

Lecturer, political scientist and co-author of the Panel on Planetary Thinking

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Erik Meyer is author, lecturer and consultant. His research and application-related projects deal with the digital transformation of politics. In 2019 he published a book in which he explores the tension between participation and platformization in comparative perspective (Campus). He compiled several online resources for the German Agency for Civic Education and in 2020 received a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (Bochum), where he researched algorithmic public spheres. Before becoming a freelancer, he worked in various academic positions as a political scientist, dedicated to inter- and transdisciplinary research in digital media: He was Research Assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Essen) and at the Collaborative Research Centre “Memory Cultures” at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, where he also served as Principal Investigator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture.Erik Meyer is author, lecturer and consultant. His research and application-related projects deal with the digital transformation of politics. In 2019 he published a book in which he explores the tension between participation and platformization in comparative perspective (Campus). He compiled several online resources for the German Agency for Civic Education and in 2020 received a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (Bochum), where he researched algorithmic public spheres. Before becoming a freelancer, he worked in various academic positions as a political scientist, dedicated to inter- and transdisciplinary research in digital media: He was Research Assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Essen) and at the Collaborative Research Centre “Memory Cultures” at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, where he also served as Principal Investigator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture.

7/2020 – 11/2020

Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies ( cais.nrw ), topic: „Die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2020 im Kontext der Plattformisierung politischer Kommunikation: Algorithmische Öffentlichkeit und datenbasierte Kampagnenführung“

Since 2020

Collaboration at the Panel on Planetary Thinking at the Justus Liebig University Giessen

3/2019 – 7/2019

Expert opinion on „Digital Disinformation and European elections 2019“ ( Gliederung ; © Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)

10/2017 – 2/2018

Expert opinion on „ Algorithmische Öffentlichkeit: von der US Wahl 2016 zur Bundestagswahl 2017 “ ( Gliederung ; © Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)

3/2017 – 6/2017

Expert opinion on „ Digital Participation “ { Executive Summary }
(Inventory of formats of political participation in Germany)

4/2015 – 4/2017

Research Assistent at the Hessen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, project #GlobalPop

5/2011 – 6/2011

Preliminary study „ US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2012 & politische Kommunikation “ (Campaign organization and funding, elections mediatization)

4/2009 – 3/2011

Scientific Assistent at the Department of Political Science at the Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen

7/2008 – 3/2011

Principal Investigator at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at the JLU

2003-2008

Research Assistent for the special research area „Erinnerungskulturen“ at the JLU, subproject „Visualisierung und Virtualisierung von Erinnerung – Geschichtspolitik in der medialen Erlebnisgesellschaft“

2000-2002

Research Assistent for the special research area „Erinnerungskulturen“ at the JLU, subproject „Erinnerungskulturen im politischen Konflikt – Geschichtspolitische Debatten im vereinten Deutschland“

1999

Research Assistent at the Department of Political Science at the JLU

1995-1998

PhD Dissertation as a scholarship-holder of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung:
Die Techno-Szene. Ein jugendkulturelles Phänomen aus sozialwissenschaftliches Perspektive.

1992

Founding member of the working group for Political, cultural and communication research in the social sciences ( SPoKK )

SoSe 2018

Guest lecturer Master Program „Master of Public Policy“ at the NRW School of Governance: Digitale Kampagnenführung

WS 2017/2018

Seminar „Wahlen in der Mediengesellschaft: Wahlkämpfe im Zeitalter von Web 2.0“ at the Institut for Sociology at the Philipps University Marburg

SoSe 2016

Guest lecturer Master Program „Master of Public Policy“ at the NRW School of Governance: Praktiken der Politik „Digitales Informationsmanagement“

WS 2014/2015

Postgraduate university course in „Politische Kommunikation“ at the Donau-Universität Krems: Neue Formen der politischen Kommunikation durch das Internet

Verzeichnis der Lehrveranstaltungen an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

WS 2010/2011

Lecture Mediendemokratie

Proseminar Modernes Regieren