Since June 2011 Oliver Leistert is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University Budapest.

Oliver Leistert runs a little blog: nomedia.noblogs.org


Project Outline
Mobile Media und Dataveillance

My research discusses empowerment and control via mobile media.

Digital wireless media technologies are becoming more and more ubiquitous: mobile phones and RFID are well known materialisations of a technological matrix that includes a rising number of distributed wireless media systems.

These heterogeneous systems seem to have two principal consequences.

Firstly, an increased volume of wireless communication between actors, whether human beings or machines. Secondly, gigantic data spaces which provide exclusive access for companies and authorities, generate huge turnover and utilise discriminating techniques such as social sorting or preemptive surveillance. In my thesis I analyse and discuss qualitative interviews taken with experts such as activists, artivists and hackers from different places like Manila, Bangalore, Madrid, and Tokyo (and more).

This empirical research is accompanied by conceptual frameworks for the different interacting strata. My references are theories of subjectivations from post-colonial and recent feminist thinkers.

Curriculum Vitae:

Oliver Leistert studied philosophy, computer science and German literature. He is a member of the DFG Graduiertenkolleg "Automatismen" in Paderborn. He was a research fellow with the Central European
University in Budapest and a research fellow at Sarai (sarai.net) in Delhi. His main interests are mobile media, surveillance media, ICT4D, open source and open access, privacy, media theory, feminist and post-colonial epistemology.

Recent publications:

On Data Retention, Postfordism and Privacy Movements in Germany. In: Open Cahier 19, 2010, pp 92-99.

Individuation, Nachbarschaft und Protokoll. In: Maik Bierwirth, Renate Wieser, Oliver Leistert (Ed.), Ungeplante Strukturen. Tausch und Zirkulation. München 2010. p. 33-46.

Maik Bierwirth, Renate Wieser, Oliver Leistert (Ed.): Ungeplante Strukturen. Tausch und Zirkulation. München 2010.

Data Retention in the European Union: When a Call Returns. International Journal of Communication. Vol 2 (2008).

Digitale Verteilungskämpfe, digitale Zäune und digitale Schlupflöcher. In: Weiss, Volker und Sarah Speck (Hg.), Herrschaftsverhältnisse und Herrschaftsdiskurse. Berlin 2007. p. 144-157.

Talks and Lectures:

"Mobile Media Practice and Social Movements in Pakistan and Seoul", 3rd European Communication Conference (ECREA), Hamburg University, 12.-15.10.2010.

"Location Based Dataveillance" at HyperKult XIX "Mobiles - Your Are Now Here", Leuphana University Lüneburg, 8.-10. July 2010.

Resource Speaker on "Open Source Technology",  Marinduque State College, Philippines, 5.10.2009.

"Media is neither good nor bad - it serves anyone" at MediFes 2009, Tokyo, 20.-22.9.2009.

 "Mobile Media and Dataveillance" at Research Group on Public Policies for the Access to Information (GPOPAI), University of São Paulo, 8.8.2009.

Memberships:

Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM)

European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)

Address:

Oliver Leistert
Universität Paderborn
Graduiertenkolleg Automatismen
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn
E-Mail: leistert[at]mail.uni-paderborn.de
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