Tara Merk
About
Tara is a postdoc researcher at the CNRS, Paris, an ICDE research fellow at The New School in New York and associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Her research focuses on blockchain governance, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and exploring alternative ownership structures for data centers. For the latter project she extensively collaborates with the Digitalization, Sustainability and Participation working group at the Weizenbaum Institute.
Applying her interdisciplinary background in economics, information systems management and political science, her PhD thesis explored the process of Exit to Community, i.e. transitioning organizations and technologies in the digital platform economy into community ownership and governance.
Positions
Associate Researcher
Research Group: Digitalisation, Sustainability, and Participation
Ehemalige Research Fellow
Forschungsgruppe: Digitalisierung, Nachhaltigkeit und Teilhabe
23.10.23 - 31.12.23
Fields of Research
Blockchain governance, open-source communities, organisational change management, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), Exit to Community
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Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)
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