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Christoph Engemann

Christoph Engemann

Christoph Engemann,  lecturer & researcher at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences University of Bremen, Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society Stanford Law School and has taught STS at the Science, Technology and Society Program UT Austin. He currently prepares a research-project on the history of the Bundesdruckerei at the Department of Media Studies Bauhaus University Weimar.

Christoph Engemann teaches and writes in the areas of Governmediality, Electronic Government, Digital Identity, History of Authentication Media, Political Economy of the Internet and Media Theory of Statehood.

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    Not your everyday podcast #2

    Bruce Sterlings rant at SXSW is highly enjoyable and contains tons of observations worth a second thought! Get it here.…

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    Austrias Citizens E-ified

    Austria has finished to issue its citizens the 'ecard' and now is the first country worldwide where the whole population is equipped with a government a…

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    Which Code is Law?

    Today North Carolinas State Board of Elections has included Diebold to the list of recommended manufactures of voting maschines. This ruling comes despite the f…

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    Not your everyday podcast...

    Robert Harrison, Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Stanford, hosts a weekly radio show on KSZU. 'Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literatur…

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    Authentication East and West

    Yesterday the CIS and the Berkman Center collaboratively hosted a workshop on ID-Management centered around Microsofts proposal for an ID-Metasystem. Except a c…

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    Dutch Government to build citizen database

    The Dutch goverment plans to consolidate all information about its citizens in a centralized database. Introduced as a tool to help to identify troubled childre…

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    oii Summer School Wiki up & Flickr Tag

    We are pushing very long days at the oii Summer Doctoral School. Sessions start at 9.15 am and go until 5 pm and on most days we had a sightseening programm goi…

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    Scorpions on a stick

    Time went by quickly in Beijing. I have been here almost a week, and although not seeing much of this amazing city due to being heavily jetlagged, recovering fr…

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    Finally: Tor for OSX:)

    As of yesterday there is finally a end-user friendly Mac OS X version of Tor. Tor is a small tool endorsed by the EFF that allows users to anonymize their webtr…