Since March 2021, Dr. Volker Grassmuck is a Postdoc Researcher in the H2020 project European Media Platforms (EuMePlat) at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut.
Volker Grassmuck is a media sociologist, free-lance author and activist, has studied and conducted research on the knowledge order of digital media, on copyright and the knowledge commons at Freie Universität Berlin, Tokyo University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University of São Paulo. Most recently he taught at the
Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum (May 2020-February 2021). Prior to this, he was a Fellow at the
Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum (April-September 2019) and led the research project
"Public Service Media 2.0“ (2012-2015) at the
Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, which examined the future of public service media.
He has led of the conference series
Wizards-of-OS.org and of the copyright information portal
iRights.info, co-founded
mikro-berlin.org,
privatkopie.net and
CompartilhamentoLegal.org, is a board member of
Digitale Gesellschaft e.V., a member of
C-Base.org and
C3S.cc and also blogs at
vgrass.de.
Photo: © Leuphana / Birgit Brinkhoff-Mögenburg
