Dr. Dietmar Kammerer

About

Dr. Dietmar Kammerer joined the Weizenbaum Institute in November 2022 as a research data officer. He is responsible for the development and operation of the Open Acces Repository "Weizenbaum Library" as well as for all aspects of reserach data management.

Dietmar studied Literature, Politics and Philosophy in Konstanz, England and Berlin. He received his doctorate in 2008 at the Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin with a dissertation on images of video surveillance. From 2011, he worked as a research associate at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Marburg with a special focus on film theory and media history. He developed and operated the Open Access Repository for Media Studies and has served as technical and administrative project coordinator in the National Research Data Infrastructure.

His research interests include surveillance, privacy, data protection, Open Science, film and media theory.

Memberships, committees and functions

• Jury Surveillance Studies-Preis. Netzwerk Surveillance Studies (since January 2011)
• Membership Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
• Founding member AG Daten und Netzwerke. Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft

Selected publications

• Kammerer D. (2024). Surveillance and Entertainment. In N.D. Bowman (ed.), Entertainment Media and Communication (1st, pp. 457-468). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792881-032
• Kammerer D. (2024). Überwachung. In P. Grimm, K.E. Trost & O. Zöllner (eds.), Digitale Ethik (1st, pp. 269-278). Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748942399
• Kammerer D. & Matuszkiewicz K. (2023). Forschungsdaten in der Medienwissenschaft: Infrastrukturen, Plattformen und Forschungsdatenmanagement und ihre Bedeutung für die digitale Transformation der Medienwissenschaft. In S. Stollfuß, L. Niebling & F. Raczkowski (eds.), Handbuch Digitale Medien und Methoden (1st). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36629-2_6-1