Petra Grimm

Petra Grimm (* 1962 in Munich ) is a German media and communication scientist. She is professor for media research and communication science at the Stuttgart Media University and head of the Institute for Digital Ethics.

Life

Grimm studied modern German literature, communication studies and theater studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and received his doctorate in 1994 on the subject of narrativity and advertising.

Grimm worked from 1991 to 1998 as a lecturer for modern literature and media at the Institute for Education at the University of Kiel. From 1994 to 1998 she was the department head for program supervision and media research at the Independent State Agency for Broadcasting and New Media (ULR) in Kiel.

Grimm has been professor for media research at the Stuttgart Media University since 1998. She has been the ethics officer at the university since 2000. In 2013 she founded the Institute for Digital Ethics together with Tobias Keber and Oliver Zöllner . In 2011 she received the Baden-Württemberg State Teaching Prize. She is a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and has been a member of the SWR Broadcasting Council since 2017. From 2012 to 2017 she was a member of the Commission for Youth Media Protection (KJM).

Grimm is the editor of the media ethics series at Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart.

Fonts (selection)

• Petra Grimm: Film Narratology. An introduction to the practice of interpretation using the example of the commercial. Diskurs-Film-Verlag, Munich 1996.
• Grimm Petra, Rafael Capurro (ed.): Images of people in the media - ethical role models? Series of publications: Medienethik Volume 1, Steiner, Stuttgart 2002.
• Petra Grimm (Ed.): Business ethics in the information society - a question of trust? Series of publications: Medienethik Volume 6, Steiner, Stuttgart 2004.
• Petra Grimm, Stefanie Rhein, Elisabeth Clausen-Muradian: Violence in Web 2.0 - How young people deal with violent content and cyber bullying as well as the legal classification of the problem. Ed. Lower Saxony State Media Authority, 2008.
• Petra Grimm, Oliver Zöllner (Ed.): Brave new world of communication or the end of privacy? - The publication of the private in social media and popular media formats. Series of publications: Medienethik Volume 11, Steiner, Stuttgart 2012.
• Petra Grimm, Tobias O. Keber, Oliver Zöllner (eds.): Anonymity and transparency in the digital society. Series of publications: Medienethik Volume 15, Steiner, Stuttgart 2015
• Petra Grimm, Michael Müller: Narrative media research - introduction to the methodology and application. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2016.
• Petra Grimm, Tobias O. Keber: Automated decisions from an ethical point of view. In: Artificial Intelligence - Economic Significance, Social Challenges, Human Responsibility. Edited by Bitkom eV / DFKI, 2017, pp. 124–139
• Petra Grimm, Oliver Zöllner (Ed.): Man - Machine: Ethical Perspectives on a Tension Relationship. Series of publications: Medienethik Volume 17, Steiner, Stuttgart 2018
• Digital ethics: living in networked worlds. Compact knowledge XL. ed. by Petra Grimm, Tobias O. Keber and Oliver Zöllner. Reclam 2019. ISBN 3150152402 .

Web links

• Petra Grimm on the website of the Media University
• Petra Grimm on the website of the Institute for Digital Ethics