Jannik Bierstedt

About

Jannik Bierstedt is a student assistant in the „Digitalization, Sustainability, and Participation“ research group at the Weizenbaum Institute. 

He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in philosophy at FU Berlin. Prior to that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy with a minor in sociology at the University of Potsdam. During his studies, he engaged intensively with the thought of Martin Heidegger, particularly with questions concerning humanity and possible transformations of human existence in the digital age. His focus included analyses of altered experiences of time - e.g. boredom, the moment, and lingering - as well as the relationship between the individual and society, or between ‚I‘ and ‚the others‘.

Jannik Bierstedt has authored several (unpublished) papers on the effects of the internet on humans - for instance, building on the ideas of Hubert L. Dreyfus - which, in part, can be read as analogous to the questions and theses of Joseph Weizenbaum; in doing so, potential parallels emerge between Heidegger’s critical philosophy of technology and Weizenbaum’s thought, which have already been highlighted in isolated instances in research. Most recently, he conducted research within the learning:digital competence network on transfer processes between science and practice in educational research and is a member of the Institute for Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Cultural Studies (IPPK).

Research Group: Digitalization, Sustainability, and Participation