Dr. Dennis Redeker

Curriculum Vitae

Dennis Redeker is a postdoctoral researcher at ZeMKI and affiliated to the Lab “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology” (Prof. Dr. Katzenbach). He deals with questions of global governance research, especially in the fields of internet, platform and AI governance. He is a founding member of the interdisciplinary Digital Constitutionalism Network (since 2019), which deals with the role of human rights in the digital space and the question of the increasing constitutionalization of digital technologies.

Between April 2017 and November 2021, Dennis Redeker was a research assistant at SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, at the University of Bremen and a doctoral student at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). During his doctoral phase, he completed research stays at New York University (Center for European and Mediterranean Studies) and Harvard University (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society). He defended his dissertation entitled “Digital Constitutionalism: Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Struggle for Human Rights in the Digital Age” in March 2021 (supervised by Prof. Dr. Martens, University of Bremen). Previously, he studied International Relations, Comparative Law, Political Philosophy and Economics in Maastricht, Bremen and at the University of Connecticut.

From April to September 2021, Dennis Redeker was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum and a Teaching Fellow of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (KI-Campus). Since September 2021 he has been an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at BIGSSS, since May 2022 Fellow at the Information Society Law Center at the University of Milan (Statale), since September 2022 “Visiting Professor” at the FGV Center for Technology and Society (CTS-FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. Also in September 2022, he was appointed as a Young Academic Fellow (2022-2025) by the Akademie der Wissenshaften in Hamburg.

Teaching

In his teaching, Dennis Redeker focuses on research-based teaching, problem-based learning (PBL) and transnational teaching partnerships. Together with lecturers from other European countries, he organizes the “Digital Constitutionalism Teaching Partnership”. In the summer semester of 2023, this teaching partnership took place for the fourth time in a row, this time as an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP) with a presence phase at the Università degli Studi di Padova, in which 13 students from the University of Bremen took part. In April 2024, a blended intensive program led by Dennis Redeker will take place at the University of Bremen and bring together students from eight universities. Since the winter semester 2022/2023, he has been teaching as a “remote CTS-FGV Visiting Professor” at the Center for Technology and Society at the FGV Direito Rio (Rio de Janeiro) on “Platform Governance from the Global South” and on questions of comparative privacy research.

To carry out his research, Dennis Redeker received grants and research funding from the European Commission, the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) of Switzerland, the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, the Central Research Development Fund (CRDF) of the University of Bremen, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN) and Facebook Research.

At ZeMKI Dennis Redeker leads the projects “Platform Governance Survey: A Global Study of Public Attitudes Towards Content Moderation“ and Work Package 3 of “Reignite Multilateralism via Technology (REMIT)”.

Main research areas

• Internet Governance
• Platform Governance
• Artificial Intelligence
• International Relations
• NGOs and Civil Society

Memberships

• Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
• International Studies Association (ISA)
• Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
• German Political Science Association (DVPW)

Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)

• Celeste, E and Redeker, D and Santaniello, M (2024). Anchoring Digital Rights: Digital Constitutionalism in Hard Times. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. Part F1992. 217-237
  http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85180658798&partnerID=MN8TOARS
• Katzenbach, C and Basoglu, S and Redeker, D (2023). Finally Opening Up? The Evolution of Transparency Reporting Practices of Social Media Platforms. SSRN
  http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85165898950&partnerID=MN8TOARS
• Katzenbach, Christian and Kopps, Adrian and Magalhes, Joo C and Redeker, Dennis and Suehr, Tom and Wunderlich, Larissa (2023). The Platform Governance Archive v1 – A longitudinal dataset to study the governance of communication and interactions by platforms and the historical evolution of platform policies [Data Paper]. Center for Open Science
  http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/5vcfz
• Celeste, Edoardo and Palladino, Nicola and Redeker, Dennis and Yilma, Kinfe (2023). The Content Governance Dilemma. Digital Constitutionalism, Social Media and the Search for a Global Standard. Springer International Publishing
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32924-1
• Muller, C and Redeker, D (2022). International Nongovernmental Organizations. Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict: Volume 1-4, Third Edition. 3. 21-27
  http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85152347601&partnerID=MN8TOARS
• Celeste, E and Palladino, N and Redeker, D and Yilma, KM (2022). Digital Constitutionalism: In Search of a Content Governance Standard. Constitutionalising Social Media. 267-288
  http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85193948982&partnerID=MN8TOARS
• Celeste, Edoardo and Palladino, Nicola and Redeker, Dennis and Yilma, Kinfe Micheal (2022). Digital Constitutionalism: In Search of a Content Governance Standard. Constitutionalising Social Media. Hart Publishing
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509953738.ch-016
• Redeker, D (2019). Exploring the Bottom-Up Constitutionalism of the ‘Feminist Principles of the Internet’. SSRN
  http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85109255494&partnerID=MN8TOARS
• Dennis Redeker and Lex Gill and Urs Gasser (2018). Towards digital constitutionalism? Mapping attempts to craft an Internet Bill of Rights. International Communication Gazette. 80 (4). 302--319. SAGE Publications
  https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1748048518757121
• Redeker, D and Martens, K (2018). NGOs and accountability. Handbook of Research on NGOs. 303-324
  http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85075851089&partnerID=MN8TOARS

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-7691