Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach

Christian Katzenbach is Professor of Communication and Media Studies with a focus on media governance and platform economics at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. In Bremen, Christian is head of the Lab “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology“ and director of the MA programme Digital Media and Society.

In 2024, Christian is a Visiting Professor at Department of Media and Communications the London School of Economics (LSE). He is an Associated researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, that he helped to build up from 2011 onwards. Christian completed his PhD at Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation thesis on “Governance, Technology and Communication” (2016, summa cum laude). The thesis was awarded the two-year dissertation prize of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) and the dissertation prize Media-Culture-Communication.

In research and teaching, Christian addresses the interrelationships of communication, technology and politics in the context of the digitalisation of society. Currently he focusses on the conceptual and empirical investigation of the regulation and governance of the internet and platforms, the role of data, algorithms and infrastructures for the (re-)organisation of societal communication, as well as discourses and regulation of “artificial intelligence”.

Christian leads large international third-party funded projects on these topics, funded by the DFG, the EU’s H2020 framework programme, the BMBF, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB).

Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)

• Copyright Content Moderation in the European Union: State of the Art, Ways Forward and Policy Recommendations. IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-023-01409-5
• Strong and weak AI narratives: an analytical framework. AI & SOCIETY
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-02087-8
• Automating communication in the digital society Editorial to the special issue. New Media & Society
  https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241265655
• Subnational AI policy: shaping AI in a multi-level governance system. AI & SOCIETY
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01561-5
• Mandate to overblock? Understanding the impact of the European Union's Article 17 on copyright content moderation on YouTube. Policy & Internet
  https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.379
• Smoothing Out Smart Tech’s Rough Edges: Imperfect Automation and the Human Fix. Human-Machine Communication
  https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.7.2
• The Becoming of AI: A Critical Perspective on the Contingent Formation of AI
  https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/vyst8
• Imaginaries of artificial intelligence
  https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803928562.00024
• Media representations of artificial intelligence: surveying the field
  https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803928562.00030
• The becoming of AI: a critical perspective on the contingent formation of AI
  https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803928562.00009

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1897-2783