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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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    Read German in English

    Sight and Sight is an exiting new service being live since March 1. It offers daily abstracts of the feuilletons of Germanys (and Switzerlands) biggest newspape…

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    Why Microsoft will go open source...

    At least in the public sector! Microsoft has announced that it expands its Government Security Program, better known under the name ‘Shared Source”, to its Off…

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    Visiting the US & Disinfopedia

    I just arrived in the US for a four month visit to Stanford where I will mainly dwell hidden from the sun in serveral libraries in order to pursue my thesis. I…

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    Paper Kills

    I am always impressed by the ability of US politicians to coin catchphrases. While European governments try to sell their e-health initiatives with lengthy argu…

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    WOS Days Two and Three

    My day two at WOS started with a session by public libary activists giving information on their efforts to preserve computer games. While gaining recognition fr…

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    Wizards of OS Day One

    First of all - this is huge. The third annually Wizards of OS has managed to draw both a profound crowd and a high profile range of speakers.The event took of w…

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    Blogging Wizards of OS Conference

    Slashdot already has the news: the third Wizards of OS Conference on free Software and free Content opens this Thursday in Berlin. Creative Commons Germany will…

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    my generation & 68

    For the last ten years I attended the Moers New Jazz Festival on Whitsun. Besides being a lot of fun, this event always managed to puzzle me intellectually and…

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    UK Poll on ID-Cards

    Privacy International has published a public opinion survey (PDF-File) on the proposed National ID Card in the UK. The representative Poll contains some interes…