New spokesperson for the CRC 1187: Carolin Gerlitz

Carolin Gerlitz was elected as the new spokesperson for SFB 1187 “Media of Cooperation” back in October. She has been a professor of Digital Media and Methods at the University of Siegen since 2016. Previously, she held a tenured assistant professorship for New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

Her research focuses on critical data studies, platform and software studies, data practices and sensor data, among others, which she explores in her subprojects A03 Navigation in Online and Offline Media and P03 Media of Praxeology III: Digital Research Tools and Environments, which she leads. In addition, she leads the sub-project C01 Fabricating ‘the people’ Negotiating Claims of Representation in Social Media in Post-Gezi Turkey in CRC 1472 Transformations of the Popular.

As spokesperson, she now replaces Tristan Thielmann in his duties, who will act as deputy spokesperson from now on. We wish Carolin Gerlitz all the best for her new tasks.