Jeanette Hofmann

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Jeanette Hofmann (2017)

Jeanette Hofmann (born 1960 in Mannheim ) is a German political scientist . She deals with political issues relating to the internet and the digitization of society.

Life

After graduating from high school in Essen in 1980, Jeanette Hofmann studied political science until her diploma in 1986 at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin . There she received her doctorate in 1992. After working on technology policy and the sociology of technology , which emerged during this period, she turned to the Internet in the mid-1990s , which was then increasingly gaining in social importance, and has since accompanied network policy issues, especially topics of the knowledge society , from a political science perspective.

After a number of postdoc positions (1993-2003) and a highly regarded candidacy for the board of directors of the ICANN Internet Administration (2000, in competition with the winning candidate of the Chaos Computer Club Andy Müller-Maguhn and Winfried Schüller from Deutsche Telekom ) Hofmann was appointed to a chair at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2003, which she held for only one year. In 2004 she returned to the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) for three years before going - again for a period of three years - to the Center for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics (LSE) . She is still associated with the institute at the LSE as a research associate. At the same time, however - again at the WZB - she joined a research group on the subject of “Cultural Sources of Novelty”, to which she belonged from 2010 to 2013. During this time she was also appointed as an expert in the study commission Internet and digital society of the German Bundestag .

In April 2012, Jeanette Hofmann was one of the four founding directors of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society , which at the time was known as the “ Google Institute” because of the donor of the start-up funding , in whose management she has since represented the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. At the time, she saw no conflict of interest in the much-criticized funding from Google, as long as the institute could “determine its own research agenda”. In addition, Google was “just one of many partners” “who will help the new institute to get on its feet.” Since 2013, Hofmann has also headed the Internet Policy Field project group at the Berlin Science Center. Since 2014 she has been honorary professor for Internet politics at the Central Institute for Continuing Education at the Berlin University of the Arts . In January 2017 she was appointed "Special Professor" for Internet Policy at the Free University of Berlin. Since September 2017 Hofmann has been Principal Investigator of two research groups (“Democracy and Digitization”, “Quantification and Social Regulation”) at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society .

Jeanette Hofmann has been a member of numerous civil society and political bodies, for example she was involved in the UN World Summit on the Information Society . She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Green Academy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation .

Fonts (selection)

  • Jeanette Hofmann: Implicit Theories in Politics. Problems of interpretation of regional technology policy . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1993, ISBN 3-531-12494-3 .
  • Jeanette Hofmann (ed.): Knowledge and property. History, Law and Economics of Substantial Goods . Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-89331-682-5 ( bpb.de - published under CC-by-nc-nd / 2.0 / de).

Web links

Commons : Jeanette Hofmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The curriculum vitae follows the information on the websites of the institutes and the private website of those concerned.
  2. ↑ Christian Persson: ICANN: Europe sends the enfant terrible. In: heise online. October 11, 2000, accessed May 12, 2018 .
  3. ^ Corinna Visser: Berlin is getting a Google institute . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . October 27, 2011 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed May 12, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Astrid Maier: How researchers want to influence digitization for the better . WirtschaftsWoche online June 7, 2017, 11:57 a.m. Quoted in Genios, accessed May 12, 2018.
  5. ^ Jeanette Hofmann new special professor. In: Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at the Free University of Berlin. January 27, 2017. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann is director of the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. , in: Schader Foundation, July 13, 2015, accessed on May 12, 2018.
  7. ^ Advisory board, coordination and members of the Green Academy , accessed on May 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Jeanette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim