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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.