Prof. Dr. Jan Distelmeyer

Professor for media history and media theory in the European Media Studies program of the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences and the University of Potsdam.

Founding member of the Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies (ZeM) and the working group “Interfaces” of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM), part of the research college /Sensing. On the knowledge of sensitive media/.

Research focus

Current research focuses on processes of computerisation and the interface complex, the relationship between automation and autonomy, and videoconferencing as programmatic relations.

Recent publications

Kritik der Digitalität,Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2021

Algorithmen & Zeichen. Beiträge von Frieder Nake zur Gegenwart des Computers, Berlin: Kadmos, 2021 (together with Sophie Ehrmanntraut und Boris Müller)

You can visit the personal page of Prof. Dr. Jan Distelmeyer on the webseite of European Media Studies here (in German).