Matthias Spielkamp

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Matthias Spielkamp at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, March 2013

Matthias Spielkamp (* 1970 in Paderborn ) is a German journalist , entrepreneur and civil rights activist . He is co-founder and editor of the online information service iRights.info , co-founder of the platform AlgorithmWatch and board member of the German section of Reporters Without Borders .

Career

Spielkamp studied philosophy with a minor in economics and political science at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main, Hanover and at the FU Berlin (Magister degree), and also journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder (Master's of Journalism). After internships at daily newspapers, radio and television stations in Germany and abroad, he played a key role in setting up the local radio station Radio Flora in Hanover in 1995 and 1996 . After working as a reporter for Spiegel TV Magazin in Hamburg in 1997, he moved to Berlin as a freelance journalist and wrote for brand eins , the Berliner Zeitung and Die Zeit , among others .

In 2003 Spielkamp was a “John J. McCloy” Fellow of the American Council on Germany and a contextual scholarship holder. Fellowship and scholarship financed research trips to the USA, European countries and Russia for several weeks, which led to articles in Die Zeit and brand eins.

In 2004 Spielkamp founded the online information service iRights.info with Valie Djordjevic, Volker Grassmuck , Stefan Krempl and Till Kreutzer, which went online in March 2005 and was awarded the Grimme Online Award in the Information category in 2006. Today he is its co-editor.

Spielkamp was invited several times as an expert to hearings of the German Bundestag, including on the subject of copyright in the Enquete Commission Internet and Digital Society and on reform of the secret services in the Interior Committee.

In 2011, Spielkamp founded the think tank iRights.Lab, which, according to its mission statement, has set itself the goal of helping “companies, the public sector, science, politics and creative people” to “master the challenges of the digital world and maximize its great potential benefit ”and which - among numerous other projects - organized the international conference series Groundbreaking Journalism in 2014.

Spielkamp is the editor-in-chief of the online service mobilprüf.de and heads the IGF Academy, an international cooperation with the Association for Progressive Communications and LIRNEasia , which enables actors from the Global South to participate in international internet governance processes.

In 2016, Spielkamp, ​​together with Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Lorenz Matzat and Katharina Zweig , founded the AlgorithmWatch initiative, which aims to “consider and classify processes of algorithmic decision-making that are socially relevant”.

Spielkamp was a Fellow of the Mercator Foundation from September 2015 to May 2016 and a visiting scholar at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in the 2015/16 winter semester. He has been a Fellow of the Bucerius Lab of the ZEIT Foundation since August 2016 .

He is a member of the Steering Committee of the German Internet Governance Forum, where he is Chair of the Science / Civil Society Group, and is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Whistleblower Network.

Spielkamp is an advocate of the unconditional basic income, "life member" of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and lives in Berlin .

Works (selection)

  • Writing for the web - conception - text - usage . UVK, Konstanz 2003, with M. Wieland, ISBN 3-896-69359-X
  • Copyright in everyday life. Copy, edit, do it yourself . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2008, with V. Djordjevic et al. (available online as PDF ).
  • Work 2.0 - Copyright and creative work in the digital world . edoc server of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin 2009, with V. Djordjevic et al., ISBN 978-3-86004-240-3 (available online as eDoc PDF ).
  • Groundbreaking Journalism (Ed.). iRights.media, Berlin 2014 (available online as PDF ).
  • Guidebook Internet Governance (Ed.). Edition DW Akademie, Bonn 2016 (available online as PDF ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AlgorithmWatch
  2. ↑ Who Owns the Right? , by Matthias Spielkamp brand eins, December 2003 / January 2004
  3. ↑ Winner of the Grimme Online Award Information ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  4. ↑ German Bundestag Printed Matter 17/5625, 17. term, interim report of the Commission of Inquiry "Internet and Digital Society", April 19, 2011
  5. ^ IRights-Lab: an interview with Matthias Spielkamp , by Dirk von Gehlen , Digitale Notizen, October 30, 2012
  6. ^ Groundbreaking Journalism
  7. ^ AlgorithmWatch Mission Statement
  8. ↑ Matthias Spielkamp: How is the networked information economy changing society and politics?
  9. ^ Bucerius Lab
  10. ^ Structure of the German Internet Governance Forum
  11. ^ Whistleblower Network
  12. ↑ Why Hackers Should Be Fed , talk at re: publica , May 7, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Spielkamp, ​​Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, entrepreneur and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn