Mercedes Bunz

Mercedes Bunz (2019)

Mercedes Bunz (born November 16, 1971 in Magdeburg ) is a German cultural scientist and journalist .

Life

After graduating from the Celtis-Gymnasium in Schweinfurt in 1991, Bunz studied philosophy and art history at the Free University of Berlin . In 1997 she founded the Berlin music and culture magazine De: Bug together with Sascha Kösch , Riley Reinhold and Benjamin Weiss . 1999–2001 she was their co-editor and editor-in-chief.

In 2005 she received a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation at the Bauhaus University Weimar with Joseph Vogl after successfully defending a thesis on the history of the Internet from the 1950s to the 1980s, which was published in 2008 as a non-fiction book, to the Dr. phil. PhD.

After working as a freelance journalist for a while, she received a post-doctoral position as a lecturer at Bielefeld University in 2006 . In the same year she became editor-in-chief of the Berliner Stadtillustrierten Zitty , before she took over the management of the online editorial team of the Tagesspiegel in 2007 .

In 2009 she moved to the Guardian in London , where she wrote in the media and technology department about the development of online journalism and social networks until the beginning of 2011 .

From 2012 to 2014 she headed the Hybrid Publishing Lab research project in the Center for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg , where she set up the experimental science publisher meson press . She subsequently became a Senior Lecturer at the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design ( Communication and Media Research Institute , CAMRI) at the University of Westminster , London. Since 2018 she has been Senior Lecturer in Digital Societies at King's College London.

Bunz was u. a. works for the online magazines Telepolis and Carta . She lives and works in London , formerly also in Lüneburg. She reported on developments in the media sector for DRadio Wissen and Bayern 2 .

Awards

• 2010: Specialist Journalist Award from the German Association of Specialist Journalists

Fonts (selection)

• From storage to distribution - the history of the Internet . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86599-025-9 (also Diss. Univ. Weimar: Internet. Eine mediale Historiographie. Faculty of Media, August 18, 2005).
• The logic of technology: thinking and digitization . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 24, 2011.
• The silent revolution. How algorithms change knowledge, work, the public and politics without making a lot of noise (=  edition unseld . Volume 7 ). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-26043-2 .
• Mercedes Bunz, Graham Meikle: The Internet of Things (=  Digital media and society ). Polity, Cambridge 2018, ISBN 978-1-5095-1746-6 .

Web links

Commons : Mercedes Bunz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Mercedes Bunz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Mercedes Bunz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Videos from and about Mercedes Bunz in the AV portal of the Technical Information Library
• Official website
• Mercedes Bunz on the Internet as a forest walk . In: Electrical Reporter , No. 27, April 23, 2007, YouTube, accessed November 29, 2018 (interview).
• Deutschlandfunk essay and discourse of October 13, 2019: '' Criticism in the Age of Digitization. On the relationship between the arts and the media '', by Mercedes Bunz and Corina Caduf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stephan Weichert, Christian Zabel: Mercedes Bunz - The Tornado Girl . ( Memento of December 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 2010; Retrieved June 11, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Profile of Mercedes Bunz ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2011 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. . In: Carta. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
3. ↑ Anna Reimann: , Zitty' Chief Editor Bunz. The relaxed one . Spiegel Online , August 30, 2006; Retrieved June 11, 2011.
4. ↑ Sascha Kösch: Mercedes goes to Tagesspiegel-Online. From one editor-in-chief to the next . De: Bug , February 15, 2007; Retrieved June 11, 2011.
5. ↑ Jochen Voss: Private reasons editor in chief leaves Bunz, tagesspiegel.de ' . In: DWDL.de. August 7, 2009. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
6. ↑ Mercedes Bunz. Profiles . In: The Guardian, undated; Retrieved June 11, 2011.
7. ↑ Dr. Mercedes Bunz is one of "Germany's digital minds" . Press release from Leuphana University Lüneburg. July 4, 2014; accessed on March 16, 2015.
8. ↑ Who we are . In: meson press . ( meson.press [accessed November 29, 2018]).
9. ↑ Dr Mercedes Bunz presents AI research to the House of Lord's Select Committee. In: CAMRI News. University of Westminster, November 3, 2017, accessed November 29, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Dr Mercedes Bunz. King's College London, accessed November 29, 2018 (UK English). 
11. ↑ Article by Mercedes Bunz. ( Memento of April 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Telepolis ; Retrieved June 11, 2011.
12. ↑ Mercedes Bunz: About . Private website. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
13. ^ German Congress of Trade Journalists in Berlin: Dr. Mercedes Bunz receives Specialist Journalist Award 2010 . Press release of the DFJV, November 4, 2010; accessed on June 11, 2018.