My name is Oliver Leistert. I am a media studies researcher and scholar; I mostly focus on online, social and mobile media with special reference to surveillance and empowerment. My main academic interests are mobile media, surveillance media, ICT4D, open source, privacy, and governmental studies.
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I am a research fellow at the Centre for Media and Communication Studies at the Central European University in Budapest.
From Mai 2008 to April 2011 I have been a member at the Research Training Group “Automatisms” at the University of Paderborn, Germany.
Current Research:
Since 2008 I work (both theoretically and empirically) on the use of mobile media in protests and social movements. The same time I explicitly examine surveillance that goes hand in hand with mobile media’s empowering qualities.
Also I write and publish about so called “social media”.
Short CV:
Since June 2011: Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies, Central European Universtity, Budapest.
May 2008 – April 2011:
University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
Post-graduate Programme “Automatisms”
Doctoral thesis “Dataveillance and Mobile Media (Working Title)”
December 2004 to February 2005:
Residency at Sarai, Delhi. Research project: “Digital Inequality”,
Before 2004:
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
MA Philosophy, Computer Science and German Literature/Media Cultures, November 2004.