Prof. Dr. Lena Ulbricht
About
Lena Ulbricht is interim professor in Political Theory at the Technical University Munich for the year 2023/2024. Lena Ulbricht was the co-lead of the research group "Technology, Power, and Domination". Her work explores how theories of power and democracy can add to the regulation of digital technologies and platforms. Another strand of her work analyzes the power implications of public sector platforms and software and the quantification of populations in modern states.
She obtained her habilitation in political science at the University of Bremen with a thesis about “Governance with Digital Technologies and the Role of the State”. Previously she obtained her PhD in political science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin with a book about policy-making in German federalism. Lena Ulbricht is elected speaker of the DVPW working group Politics and Digitalization and co-host of the intersectional feminist podcast Purple Code.
Positions
Associate Researcher since October 2024
Research Group: Technology, Power and Domination
Research Group Lead
Until September 2024:
Research Group: Technology, Power and Domination
Until 14 September 2022:
Research Group: Quantification and Social Regulation
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Fields of Research
- Regulation & Governance
- Digital Technologies & Platforms
- Power & Governance
- Digital Democracies
- Latin America
Committees and functions
- Editor Weizenbaum Journal for Networked Societies
More Information
- Podcast: PurpleCode
- Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID): https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-0144
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Publications
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