Public lectures, panel discussions

Conception and moderation of the discussion series "Digital Public Sphere / Digital Change" of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Hamburg, since 2013  

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ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association, Conference 2022, Aarhus, Danmark - Vortrag “Digital Activism – Online-Petitions as Tools of Political Agency and Individual Media Practice” –

Conference of the Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons of the Petitions Committees of the Federal Parliament and the State Parliaments, Wiesbaden 2022 - Lecture "Online petitions as a form of political participation in digital civil society".

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Petitions Working Group SPD Bundestag Caucus, Berlin 2022 - Presentation "Online petitions as a form of participation in digital civil society".

IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research - Online-Conference 2021 - Lecture "Digital Activism - Initiators of online-petitions, their motivation, aims and experience"

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Annual Conference of the Institute for Social Movement Studies (IPB) "Hashtags, Tweets, Protest - Social Movements in the Digital Age" Berlin 2019 - Conception and moderation of the discussion panel "Web-centric hybrid campaigns - more than post-democratic click activism?" with Ansgar Lahmann (Change.org), Günther Metzges-Diez (Campact), Lisa Villioth (University of Siegen), Mundo Yang (University of Siegen)

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International workshop "Understanding and Examining the Digital Advocacy Pioneers" Portsmouth, England 2018 - Lecture (together with Lisa Villioth) "Beyond Slacktivism: Unfolding the Hybridity of Web-Centered Campaigns"

Social Talk 2016 - "Crowds, Movements & Communities?! - Potentials and challenges of management in networks" at the Institute for Future Issues in Health and Social Economy (IZGS) of the Evangelische Hochschule Darmstadt (EHD), November 2016 - Lecture "Shitstorm, E- Petitions, Clicktivism - Social Movement on the Net"

International Conference "Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies"Alghero, Sardinia 2015 - Lecture (together with Dr. Mundo Yang) "Four Evolving Types of Online Grassroots Campaigning in Germany"

International Workshop "The New Politics of Lifestyles. Consumer Participation On-/Offline" University of Siegen 2014 - Lecture "Web based Campaigns as New Forms of Participation"

Forum Non-Profit Schomerus & Partner 2014 - Lecture "Voluntary Commitment in the Age of the Internet"

Simpósio Internacional Brasil-Alemanha sobre Política e Interent "Participação Social e Transparência Pública no Mundo Digital", Salvador de Bahia, Brazil 2013 - Lecture "E-Participation - Opportunities and Risks of Civic Engagement"

Councilors Round - Economic Forum Rostock 2013 - Lecture "Old and New Media in Democracy - How
is Political Communication Changing?"

re:campaign Berlin 2013 - Lecture "E-Participation for NGOs - Opportunities and Risks Online"

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re:publica Berlin 2013 - panel discussion "1 million petitions -- are we really protesting online?" with Judith Orland (Oxfam), Felix Kolb (Campact) and Markus Winkler (WWF)  

Evangelical Academy of the North Church, Hamburg 2013 - Lecture "Politics wants to be communicated"

Conference "Internet & Participation", Hamburg 2012 - conference concept and conference management, introductory lecture on the topic, specialist lecture on grassroots campaigning as civil society participation

UC / ICA Latin American Conference, Santiago, Chile 2012 - "Trends in International and Latin American Communication Research" Theme axes number 4. "Communication, organization and society" - Lecture "Online protest – How the internet changed grassroots campaigning"

Council of Europe 2011 - Lecture "Internet & Grassroots - Online communication and democratic development." 

Conference "PR and journalism - between confrontation and cooperation", Hamburg 2011 - Lecture "NGO-PR and newsworthiness"

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