Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Political Theory

Daniel Staemmler

Researcher
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Office hours:
By appointment via E-Mail


Contact

e-mail: d.staemmler (at) hu-berlin.de

Visiting Address

ISW, Room 101

Mailing Address

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Sozial­wissen­schaften
Unter den Lin­den 6
10099 Berlin

 

Personal Profile

Daniel Staemmler is a research associate in the ERC-funded research project “Protest and Order. Democratic Theory, Contentious Politics and the Changing Shape of Western Democracy” (POWDER). He studied political science and sociology in Münster and Riga and obtained an MA degree in social sciences from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

 

Publications

 

(2022): Protest and the Democratic Order. In Democratic Theory 9 (2), 1-10. (w/ Christian Volk, Danniel Gobbi und Laura Gorriahn). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/dt.2022.090201.

(2022): Political Theory of the Digital Constellation. In Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 32 (2), 251-265 (w/ Sebastian Berg und Thorsten Thiel). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41358-022-00324-4.

(2022): Review of  "The Internet Myth" by  P. Bory. In Information, Communication & Society, online first. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1931405 .

(2021): Digitaler Aktivismus im Kampf um technologische Souveränität [Digital activism in the fight for technological sovereignty] (Review of "The Rise of Nerd Politics" by J. Postill & "Hybrid Media Activism" by E. Treré). In Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 34 (1), 171-178. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2021-0014 .

(2020): Zur Konstitution der digitalen Gesellschaft: Alternative Infrastrukturen als Element demokratischer Digitalisierung [On the digital society's constitution: alternative infrastructures as element of democratic digital transformation]. In Borucki, Isabelle/Oswald, Michael (Hrsg.): Demokratietheorie im Zeitalter der Frühdigitalisierung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS (w/ Sebastian Berg). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30997-8_7

(2020): Hashtags, Tweets, Protest? Varianten des digitalen Aktivismus [Hashtags, Tweets, Protest? Variants of digital activism]. In Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 33 (2), 425-441 (w/ Maik Fielitz). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2020-0037 .

(2020): Digitaler Aktivismus: Hybride Repertoires zwischen Mobilisierung, Organisation und Vermittlung [Digial Activism: hybrid repertoires inbetween mobilization, organization and mediation]. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 33 (2), (Eds. w/ Maik Fielitz, Leslie Gauditz & Verena Stern). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2020-0034 .

(2019): Ins Netz gegangen [Went into the Net] (Review of "Die Netzbewegung" by K. Ganz). In DNGPS Working Paper. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3224/dngps.v5i1.01 .

(2018): Soziale Bewegungen als Korrektiv und Gefahr der Demokratie? [Social Movements as a Corrective and a Danger of Democracy] (Tagungsbericht zum 27. Wissenschaftlichen Kongress der DVPW „Grenzen der Demokratie/Frontiers of Democracy“, 25.-28.09.2018, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) In Theorieblog, 18.12.2018 (w/ Laura Gorriahn & Anton Haffner).

(2017) Der Wandel der extremen Rechten in Europa [The Transformation of the extreme right in Europe] (Review of Trouble on the Far Right by M. Fielitz/L. Laloire). In Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 30 (2), 228–230. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2017-0048 .

 

Lectures & Talks

  • Presentation „Was ist das Technopolitische? Zur Politisierung digitaler Infrastrukturen“ [What is the techno-political? On the politicization of digital infrastructure], FRIAS Konferenz  „Transformationen des Politischen. Radikaldemokratische Theorie für die 2020er Jahre“, Freiburg, 10/2022
  • Presentation „Understanding Digital Activism“, NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence, „Emerging Trends in Social Media Conference“, Riga, 10/2022
  • Presentation „Civic Tech as Digital Activism: Turning (in)to Institutions?“, Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft Berlin, 06/2022
  • Presentation „On Digital Protest“, Internationaler Workshop, Institute for Political Science at University of Brasilia, 03/2022
  • Presentation „The City as Platform: Civic Agency in the Digital Constellation“, Internationaler Workshop „Spheres of Citizenship: Rights, Frontiers, Agencies“, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro & Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, 03/2022
  • Presentation „Coding Democracy? Digitale Innovationen und politischer Protest“ [Coding Democracy? Digital Innovations and political Protest], 28. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress of the German Political Science Association „Wir haben die Wahl! Politik in Zeiten von Unsicherheit und Autokratisierung“, online, 09/2021
  • Participant of panel discussion „Plattformen im Konflikt“ [Platforms in Conflict], Digitaler Salon of Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin/online, 07/2021 
  • Presentation „The Democratic Question in Digital Terms: On the Technopolitical Imaginary of Civic Tech Activists“, 26th World Congress of Political Science der International Political Science Association, online, 07/2021 (w/ Sebastian Berg)
  • Participant of panel discussion „Democratic Innovations From Below“, International Workshop „After the Event: Conceptualizing Political Protest“, HU Berlin/online, 05/2021 
  • Presentation „The Democratic Question in Digital Terms: On the Technopolitical Imaginary of Civic Tech Activists“, Civic Participation in the Datafied Society, Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), online, 05/2021 (w/ Sebastian Berg)
  • Presentation „Building something new in the shell of the digital? The prefigurative politics of the Decentralized Web“, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)/ Society for Special Studies of Science (4S) joint conference „Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds“, Prague/online, 07/2020
  • Presentation „Building something new in the shell of the digital: The prefigurative politics of alternative infrastructures“, Annual Conference of the Institute for Protest and  Movement Research „Hashtags, Tweets, Protest? Soziale Bewegungen im digitalen Zeitalter“, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, 11/2019
  • Presentation „Digitaler Protest jenseits des Klicktivismus“ [Digital protest beyond clicktivism], Workshop „Aktivismus – Idealismus, naive Selbstverwirklichung oder Triebkraft gesellschaftlichen Wandels?“, Studierendeninitiative globalegesundheit Würzburg, 07/2019
  • Presentation „Die legitimierende Kraft der Konstitution: Alternative Infrastrukturen als Element demokratischer Digitalisierung“ [The legitimizing power of the constitution: Alternative infrastructure as an element of democratic digitization], Joint annual conference of the working group "Politics and Communication" of the German Political Science Association (GPSA), division "Communication and Politics" of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) and the section "Political Communication" of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM), NRW School of Governance Duisburg, 01/2019 (w/ Sebastian Berg)
  • Workshop „Die Politik der Plattformen: Herrschaft und Kritik online“ [Politics of Platforms: Domination and Critique online], herr*krit herrschaftskritische Sommeruniversität, Universität Kassel, 07/2018

 

Projects

 

Teaching and research interests

  • Democratic theory, social theory and political sociology
  • Social movement studies and digital activism
  • Internet governance and digital policy
  • Interpretive methods