Academic Career

March 2001Onwards

Vrije Universiteit Brussel 
SMIT – Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication
Research Fellow for EMTEL2

February 2000 - February 2001

University of Brighton
School of Information Management
Lecturer (BA Information and Media Studies)

University of Westminster
School for Communication, Design and Media
Visiting Lecturer (BA Contemporary Media Practice / MA Hypermedia)

February 1998 - January 2000
 

University of Westminster
School for Communication, Design and Media
Teaching Assistant (BA Media Studies)

March 1995 - Feb 1998

University of Sussex
Graduate Research Centre in Culture and Communication
Research Officer for EMTEL (European Media, Technology and Everyday Life Network)

Education

1997 onwards

Research student (MPhil/PhD)
Media studies
University of Westminster

Topic:  The cyberflâneur as "placeholder" for the social uses of the Internet considered as an emerging cultural form

1993-1994 Master of Arts

Media studies
University of Sussex

1988-1996 Magister Artium
 

Publizistik, Theaterwissenschaften und Philosophie
(Media studies, theatre studies and philosophy)
Freie Universität Berlin

Research Interests

• New technologies and their social, cultural and political consequences
• Users of new technologies
• Music and new technologies
• Cybercultures
• Electronic democracy
• Media and the public sphere
• Media, culture and identity
• Science fiction as subculture
• Gender and the media