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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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    Digital Identity Syllabus

    In spring 2007 I taught a class on Digital Identity in the STS Progam at UT Austin. Please find my syllabus attached below. I'd be very thankful for comment…

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    The will to write oneself

    I received some inquiries about what have I been up to lately. First of all I am teaching an introduction to Science and Technology Studies at UT Austin and jus…

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    not your everyday podcast IV

    I was very delighted to find iTunes downloading a new 'Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)' podcast . After a long hiatus of almost 2 years an…

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    'Surveillance and You' Civic Forum

    'Surveillance and You' is the title of this years Civic Forum of the Science, Technology & Society Program at UT Austin. The one day event will host…

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    governmediality.net is live

    The website for the workshop 'Governmediality of Work, Welfare, and the Life Course'at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst, Germany Dec 7…

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    Workshop on Governmediality

    My colleague Boris Traue and myself are organizing a two day workshop on the governmediality of the lifecourse. We welcome contributions, please read the cfp be…

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    not your everyday podcast #3

    I had the pleasure to be guest on my fellow fellows David Levine's KSZU Radio Show 'Hearsay Culture' (iTunes needed!). David and I talked about Nati…

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    Help needed: History of 'Share'

    I am working on a small genealogy of sharing in the context of computers. Surprisingly there is very little literature on this phenomenon. The word 'share&#…

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    Soft Paternalism

    The Economist this week runs a title story called 'Soft Paternalism' http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=6772346 In m book on e-…

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    Authoritarian Capitalism

    Since last summer the assistance of companies like Yahoo and Google in Chinese censorship practices is a much debated issue. Last week Yahoo again has been accu…