Jessica Heesen

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Jessica Heesen (* in Krefeld ) is a philosopher and media ethicist . She heads the research focus on media ethics and information technology at the University of Tübingen and teaches as a private lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Research projects she leads deal with (social) media and digitization and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence .

Career

Heesen comes from Krefeld and studied philosophy, modern German literature , Catholic theology and theater, film and television studies, initially at the University of Cologne and later in Tübingen.

Between 1991 and 2001 she worked as an employee and scholarship holder of the International Center for Ethics in Science (IZEW) at the University of Tübingen. As a scientific coordinator, she also accompanied the DFG graduate school "Ethics in Science", which was dedicated to the new question in the late 1990s , such as how society changed through the Internet .

During these years she took on consulting and project assignments on the topics of media policy and information society for various clients at federal and state level . From 2002 at the University of Stuttgart, from 2003 she did research in a DFG special research area on "Environment models for mobile, context-related systems". At the University of Stuttgart she did her doctorate in 2006 with a thesis on media ethics and network communication, in which she dealt with the question of how individual public communication affects our awareness of reality - in contrast to an “editorially filtered public”.

This was followed from 2008 to 2010 by an academic collaboration at the University of Freiburg and for the IZEW on the research project Barometer Sicherheit in Germany . From 2013 to 2017, she headed the junior research group Media Ethics at the University of Tübingen from an interdisciplinary perspective - values ​​and social cohesion in new public spaces. In 2015 she became the spokesperson for the section on communication and media ethics in the media ethics network.

Heesen had and still has teaching positions at the Center for Applied Cultural Studies and General Studies (ZAK) at the University of Karlsruhe and at the University of Lucerne. She teaches as a private lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In 2014 she completed her habilitation at KIT with a paper on the subject of reorientation of media ethics, in which she took a “meta perspective” and dealt with the question of how media ethics must reform in times of completely new technology.

One of her most recent research projects in 2019 is the EU-funded WeNet - The Internet of Us, which deals with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for communication for the common good. Among other things, it is about the question and the conflict of values, how one can respond to the needs of the users in the non-commercial, public good-oriented use of AI with the large amounts of data required by the system, without necessarily violating their privacy.

Heesen is a member of the Forum on Privacy and Independent Living in the Digital World at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research . In this role, she appeared in 2018 as a co-author of a "Policy Paper" that deals with the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) ​​and the criticism of it, with the result that the NetzDG needs improvements, but is "better than its reputation".

In addition, she is regularly interviewed as an interviewee on media ethics topics - for example, on the question of whether the press is allowed to view illegally leaked chat histories of politically active people , the topic of grief on the internet, the "transparent athlete", the publication of photos of dead people or reporting in the Mesut Özil case .

Publications

Author

  • with Christoph Hubig , Oliver Siemoneit, Klaus Wiegerling: Living in a networked and computerized world: context awareness at the interface of mobile and ubiquitous computing . Final report - subproject D3. University Library of the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2007, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 93-opus-31726 ( digitized via DNB ).

Editor

  • with Cordula Brand, Birgit Kröber, Uta Müller, Thomas Potthast (eds.): Ethics in cultures - cultures in ethics . A Festschrift for Regina Ammicht Quinn (=  Tübingen Studies in Ethics - Tübingen Studies in Ethics . Volume 8). Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7720-8611-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Alexander Grau: The portrait: Jessica Heesen . In: tv diskurs - responsibility in audiovisual media . tape 2 , no. 88 , 2019, pp. 60–63 ( digitized via tvdiskurs.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Alexander Grau: The portrait: Jessica Heesen. In: tvdiskurs.de. September 17, 2019, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Ulrich (ZAK) Bollmann: ZAK | Former lecturer. March 8, 2016, accessed on September 21, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ a b PD Dr. Jessica Heesen | University of Tübingen. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jessica Heesen: Media ethics and network communication: Public in the individualized media society . 1st edition Humanities Online, Frankfurt, M 2008, ISBN 978-3-934157-61-3 ( dnb.de [accessed on September 21, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Project partners & people. In: basid.mpicc.de. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Jessica Heesen: Jessica Heesen and Ingrid Stapf are the newly elected spokespersons for the Department of Communication and Media Ethics. In: Network Media Ethics. June 2, 2015, accessed on September 21, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Ethics of the digital society. In: vv.unilu.ch. University of Lucerne, accessed on September 21, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Tim Franke: KIT - Institute for Philosophy - Staff. August 1, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ Jessica Heesen: On the reorientation of media ethics: Information ethical and technological-philosophical perspectives. 2014, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  11. ↑ PD Dr. Jessica Heesen. In: Forum Privacy. Retrieved on September 21, 2019 (German).
  12. ↑ Press release: The NetzDG - better than its reputation. In: Forum Privacy. Retrieved on September 21, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ Forum privacy: The NetzDG is better than its reputation - Right-tax economy - Publisher CHBECK. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  14. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Kassel researchers defend law against hatred on the Internet. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Aron Boks: A quick look has to be enough. Are journalists allowed to read politicians' private chat histories? Media researcher Jessica Heesen on ethics and public interest . In: taz, the daily newspaper . Berlin January 5, 2019, p. 3 .
  16. ↑ Elisa Makowski: "The Internet trivializes serious content". The media ethicist Jessica Heesen on mourning online . In: Berliner Zeitung . No. 181 . Berlin July 30, 2016, p. 24 .
  17. ↑ Y. Buhl, A. Lebedew: Don't be afraid of the transparent athlete . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . Stuttgart July 28, 2018, p. 43 .
  18. ↑ Media ethicists criticize shock photo from refugee truck: “Brazen violation of the principles of journalism”. In: meedia.de. August 31, 2015, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Felix Buske: "Image abuses its position of power": Media ethicist Jessica Heesen on the reporting in the Özil case. August 24, 2018, accessed September 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Heesen, Jessica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Philosopher and media ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld