media sociologist, free-lance author and activist, has studied and conducted research on the knowledge order of digital media, on copyright and the knowledge commons at Free University Berlin, Tokyo University, Humboldt University Berlin and University of São Paulo. From March 2021 to February 2024, he was Senior Researcher in the H2020 project European Media Platforms (EuMePlat) at the Hans Bredow Institute Hamburg. Most recently he taught at the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum (May 2020-February 2021).