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incognito nation – exploring germany’s unique online privacy culture
Coming Soon – There is a German word that can end a conversation before it starts: Datenschutz. It translates as “data protection”, but in Germany it is less a legal term than a reflex. People tape over their webcams and…
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internet’s decline – how to make world’s greatest invention unusable
Coming Soon – The world wide web was supposed to be one of humanity’s greatest achievements, a place to share ideas, learn anything and reach anyone. Today, reading a single article often means clicking through a cookie banner, a paywall…
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the longest exile – life and times of friedrich ludwig breusch
Author’s Note: In May 2022, I picked up a project from my professor, Ercüment Çelik, at the University of Freiburg, while I was about to graduate from my master’s in Global Studies. It seemed simple at first. He was researching…
a small corner of the internet for stories that ended up in footnotes, and asking why things are the way they are.
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publications
upcoming publications
• you wouldn’t download a library – “closure” of libgen and the current state of online piracy
• once on the internet, always on the internet – an overview of turkey’s most alarming data breach
• the world is our länd – the story of “nett hier” stickers and its global reach
• platform immigrants – exploring the possibilities of disrupting social media monopoly