London School of Economics

Alumnus, Department of Management

PhD in Information Systems

Information Systems and Innovation Group

Thesis Title: Forgotten as Data – Remembered through Information. Social Memory Institutions in the Digital Age: The Case of the Europeana Initiative

About

My research interest is focused on digital memory studies and the question how we will remember and forget the past in the future. I have a strong skillset in terms of interdisciplinary research, which I developed under the guidance of Prof. Kallinikos (LSE), as well as teaching, which I was awarded a teaching prize for. Furthermore, I gained extensive working experience in pastoral care during my 3 years as a sub-warden in a student hall of residence. I also have practical know-how as a former system administrator, web designer, 3D animator and multimedia artist.

For my PhD at the LSE, I studied the digitization of cultural memory and heritage artefacts. I conducted a case study on the Europeana initiative – a project granting online access to the digital repositories of European libraries, archives and museums. A topic I am very passionate about, my research revealed a fascinating process of digitization as “dis-membering” cultural artefacts and catalogues only to be “re-membered” into a digital information space as momentary renditions of digital artefacts and ex-post orderings.

As a continuation of my previous work, my long-term research interest is to explore the broader implications of online media and digitality on cultural and social memory. In detail, I study digital technologies not only as information but also memory technologies that afford certain mnemonic practices on a collective as well as individual level. Thus conceived, my research enhances our understanding of a variety of issues ranging from context-specific to rather abstract domains and questions, such as the quasi-public construction of biographies on social network sites or the politics of network information infrastructures with respect to knowledge creation, mediation and organization.

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