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Dr. Dennis Redeker (2)

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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. At ZeMKI, he leads the project “Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action (AI PAN-AFRICANISM)”, which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

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 Academy of Sciences and Humanities 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 2026, this teaching partnership took place for the seventh time in a row, in recent years as Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) with a presence phase at one of the partner universities, in which students from the University of Bremen also took part (2023: Padua; 2024: Bremen; 2025: Salerno; 2026: Dublin). He regularly teaches 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 and Humanities 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 Stiftung Bremer Wertpapierbörse, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN), the Volkswagen Foundation, and Facebook Research.

At ZeMKI Dennis Redeker led the project “Platform Governance Survey: A Global Study of Public Attitudes Towards Content Moderation“, Work Package 3 of “Reignite Multilateralism via Technology (REMIT)”, as well as the project “Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action (AI PAN-AFRICANISM)“.

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)

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