Christian Stocker

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Christian Stöcker (2017)

Christian Stöcker (* 1973 in Würzburg ) is a German journalist , author and university professor .

Life

Christian Stöcker studied psychology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and at the University of Bristol . In 2003 he received his doctorate in Cognitive Psychology in Würzburg with a thesis on The Influence of Action Effects on the Acquisition and Execution of Movement Sequences . He then studied cultural criticism in Munich at the Bavarian Theater Academy . At the same time he published for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit and Spiegel Online , for example . From 2005 he was at Spiegel Online in the departments worked Science and Network World. From 2011 to 2016 he headed the Netzwelt department there.

In 2007, Stöcker published his first non-fiction book on Second Life . In 2011 Nerd Attack! , according to the subtitle "a history of the digital world from the C64 to Twitter and Facebook ". Together with Ole Reißmann and Konrad Lischka , he portrayed the international Internet movement Anonymous in the 2012 book We are Anonymous .

In 2016 Christian Stöcker was appointed professor for digital communication at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . There he heads the master’s degree in digital communication and is involved in the “Forum 4.0” research project for the analysis of user comments. Stöcker also has a weekly column at Spiegel Online that appears on Sundays under the title The Rationalist .

Positions

In August 2017, he wrote in his column about science deniers who dispute widely recognized scientific findings such as the spherical shape of the earth or man-made global warming . In it he argued that for people who believe in the flat earth or deny climate change, the word “deny” is too weak and therefore their “quasi-religious conviction that they are in possession of a truth that has been suppressed, ignored or hidden from the general public "Should be designated with an" ism ". At the same time he suggested the term “denialism” for this phenomenon, known as “denialism” in English, for which no adequate equivalent exists in German.

Fonts (selection)

  • The influence of action effects on the acquisition and execution of movement sequences , inaugural dissertation for obtaining a doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty III of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Würzburg 2002, downloadable as a PDF document
  • Second life. Instructions for use for the digital wonder world , original edition, 1st edition, Munich: Goldmann Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-12983-6 and ISBN 3-442-12983-4 ; Content text
  • Virtual spaces and real arousal cycles. The media hysteria about »Second Life« and what's really true about three-dimensional web worlds , in: Journalism. Quarterly Bulletins for Communication Research , Vol. 53, 2008
  • Nerd Attack! A history of the digital world from the C64 to Twitter and Facebook , Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt; Hamburg: Spiegel-Buchverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04509-6 ; Table of contents and content text
  • Ole Reissmann , Christian Stöcker, Konrad Lischka : We are Anonymous. The mask of protest. Who they are, what drives them, what they want (= Goldmann. Experience reading , Vol. 10240), original edition, 1st edition, Munich: Goldmann Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-10240-2 and ISBN 3-442-10240-5 ; contents
  • Hans Hege, Andreas Hamann et al. : Of power and control in the digital age (= digitization report ... 2012), ed. by Die Medienanstalten - ALM GbR, Working Group of the State Media Authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin: Vistas Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89158-573-3
  • Christian Stöcker (Ed.): Spielmacher - Talks with pioneers in the games industry , an e-book , Hamburg: Spiegel-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-87763-150-8

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information on Christian Stöcker in the DNB catalog
  2. a b c d Christian Stöcker: Interview and personal details HAW Hamburg, June 24, 2016
  3. See information on Christian Stöcker in the DNB catalog ; “Theater, film and television criticism” is named here as a subject.
  4. a b Author profile and list of articles by Christian Stöcker spiegel.de
  5. Competence Center Communication: Digital Communication. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  6. Belief in Discworld. Flachwitz . In: Spiegel-Online , August 13, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
  7. It is more important than ever to distinguish denial from skeptics . Climate facts. Retrieved August 14, 2017.