1. Courses, lectures and tutorials
Researching Search: An Ethnographic Approach
Business School, University of Exeter (2011)
Guest lecture for “Internet Marketing in the Information Society (IMIS)” module in BEMM 111 on how to study the search marketing industry ethnographically.
Institutions of Law and the Internet
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (2010)
Elective for MSc in Social Science of the Internet, taught together with Prof Christopher Millard and Prof Richard Susskind.
Internet Governance & Regulation
Wadham College, University of Oxford (2007/08, 2008/09)
Tutorial on the law and policy challenges of digitally networked environments.
Extra-legal Governance
Wadham College, University of Oxford (2007/08)
Tutorial on interdisciplinary approaches to governance in the shadow or the absence of the law: the Italian mafia, Wikipedia, diamond traders, U.S. cattle ranchers, Japanese sumo ringers.
Intellectual Property Law
International School of New Media, University of Lübeck (2006/07)
Course on intellectual property and other exclusive rights regimes.
Digital Media & Law
International School of New Media, University of Lübeck (2006/07)
Sixteen-hour class for non-lawyers on the law and regulation of digital media: basic regulatory theory, legal methodology, jurisdiction, intermediary liability, intellectual property, privacy, security, alternative forms of regulation; short lectures, case discussions, moot court.
Best class of semester based on student evaluations.
Constitutional Law I
School of Law, University of Hamburg (2001/02, 2003/04)
Tutorials accompanying first-year core lecture on German constitutional law (in German).
2. Workshops
Storying: A Workshop
University of Oxford (2011)
What is it to tell a story in social science research? What techniques, strategies and narrative devices are available and how can we make the most of them? What audiences do we write for and how are they configured in the text? How can we approach the often daunting yet essential task of academic writing? In this three-hour workshop, we explore different story-telling strategies while asking how we can make them productive for our research projects. Rather than listening to lectures and absorbing theory, we engage in a number of hands-on exercises. These include discussions on stories and storying, in which we apply and experiment with concepts from the background readings, alongside short writing and editing exercises. The overall goal is to learn from each other and explore with different modes of storying. Co-organized with Fadhila Mazanderani.
Let’s play: What Public Policy Can Learn from Game Design
University of Oxford (2008)
In this 5-hour workshop, I brought together two unlikely companions: the worlds of public policy and game design. Following an overview of basic game design theory, we analyzed and manipulated a variety of games, ranging from Monopoly, Quake and Baseball to Poker, UNO and Tic-Tac-Toe. Participants were challenged to think creatively about the potential and limitations of playful approaches to public policy and the values expressed in different configurations of a game.
3. Seminars
The STS Talk-Walk: A Monthly Walking Seminar
University of Oxford (2010/2011)
As an experiment, we are introducing a new activity at InSIS this academic year: The STS Talk-Walks. We meet up once a month on a Friday afternoon for a walk during which we explore a question that cuts across our work. Everyone is welcome, whether you consider yourself an STS person or not. The idea has traveled to Oxford from the University of Amsterdam, where Annemarie Mol and Anna M. Mann have hosted a Walking Seminar for a while. As they write, “talking-while-walking can enhance thinking in ways not attainable behind a desk or in a seminar sitting down.”
