Volker Grassmuck

Volker Grassmuck (* 1961 in Hanover) is a German journalist, social scientists and media scholars.

Life

Volker Grassmuck visited the Herschel School in Hanover, where he graduated in 1980 with the Abitur. In the meantime he attended Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

In 1981, he took a degree in Sociology at the University of Groningen in 1982 he moved to the Free University of Berlin. There he studied sociology, journalism, information science and psychology

In the eighties Grassmuck worked alongside their studies publicist: 1978-1979 the city desk Hanover taz, 1982 and 1984 as an editorial member of the Journal radically autonomous. In 1984 he founded the magazine along with other V max - magazine on the fast track and the JetSet Verlags GmbH and took in the same year at Radio 100 on an activity. 1985 he worked as editor of night flight.

Grass Muck's academic career began in 1987 with the participation in the research project meta-disciplinary Literature Analysis - Spurensicherung the interrelation of literary and technical media in Kassel; In the same year he graduated with a thesis on the topic From Animism to Animation - from submissions and omissions on artificial intelligence in Dietmar Kamper. He then began a second study of the Japanese language at the OAS the FU Berlin.

From 1989 he was a visiting researcher at the Socio- Technological Research Department of the RCAST at the University of Tokyo. Again, he was active in journalism, as in 1991 as a columnist for Konpyūta Kagaku ( computer science ) in Shujunsha as well as a video editor for ABC News. In 1992, he worked as a newscaster at Radio Japan, NHK and as a freelancer for Inter Communication Magazine, NTT Shuppansha. In addition, he ran " web research " at the University of Tokyo RACE Dr. Akihiro Kubota.

1995 returned Grassmuck back to Berlin, founded in 1998 with other micro- eV, a project to network Berlin media cultures, and worked on the DFG research project by the order of knowledge for knowledge order of digital media at Wolfgang Coy at the department of computer science in education and society of the Institute of computer science at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

In 1999 he received his doctorate with Dietmar Kamper at the FU Berlin via the media history of Japan with the topic closed society. Medial and discursive aspects of the three openings ' in Japan; 2000/2001 he became a substitute professor for Media Art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.

Grassmuck organized the conference series The Wizards of OS. Operating systems of the company system and is a frequent speaker at the meetings of the CCC; he observed critical here the trend toward privatization of public education and research institutions and thus closures in the exchange of scientific information and is committed to new forms of copyright as the knowledge commons and the GNU Project.

Grassmuck is one of the first signatories of the petition per net neutrality, whose aim is to prevent the cancellation of the ruling on the Internet to date commandment of net neutrality. Accordingly, net neutrality is fundamental to democracy, because it guarantees a free exchange free of government or economic restrictions.

Writings

  • 2002: Free Software. Between private and public ownership, the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn, ISBN 3-89331-569-1
  • 2002: A closed society. Medial and discursive aspects of the "three holes " of Japan, Iudicium Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-89129-655 -X
  • 2002: Communism knowledge and knowledge capitalism, in: Karsten Weber, Michael Nagenborg, Helmut F. Spinner (ed.): types of knowledge, knowledge systems, knowledge regime. Contributions to the Karlsruhe approach of the integrated knowledge research, Leske Budrich, Opladen, pp. 149-160
  • 1999: A life form of the future? The Otaku, in: Dirk Matejovski (ed.): A new, beautiful world? Life forms of the information society, " Heitkamp Edition, Herne
  • 1998: The Japanese font and its digitization, in: Winfried Noeth, Karin Wenz (eds.): Media Theory and Digital Media (intervals 2). With contributions by Siegfried J. Schmidt, Winfried Noeth, Georg Christoph Tholen, Manfred Fassler, Rolf Lobeck, Lucia Santaella - Braga, Karin Wenz, Herbert A. Meyer and Volker Grassmuck. kassel university press, ISBN 3-933146-05-4
  • 1991: The waste system ( with Christian Unverzagt ), Edition Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-518-11652-5
  • 1988: From Animism to Animation. Notes on Artificial Intelligence, collection Junius, Hamburg, ISBN 3-88506-404-9
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