Mercedes Bunz is Professor in Digital Culture & Society at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. She can be found on most communication platforms as ‘mrsbunz’. Bluesky, for example.
• She writes about digital technology and philosophy of technology.
• She is co-founder of the Creative AI Lab, a collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery, London.
• She is is co-founder of meson.press, and is curious about digital publishing and #openaccess.
• Her last publication explores Large Language Models here and here.
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BOOKS
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(Machine) Communication with Finn Brunton and Paula Bialski. University of Minnesota Press & meson press 2019. Order book here, download pdf there.
The Internet of Things, with Graham Meikle. Polity Press 2017.
The Silent Revolution: How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism and Politics without Making Too Much Noise, Palgrave Macmillan 2014.
Die stille Revolution: Wie Algorithmen Wissen, Arbeit, Öffentlichkeit und Politik verändern, ohne dabei viel Lärm zu machen, Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag 2012.
Vom Speichern zum Verteilen. Die Geschichte des Internet. [From Storage to Distribution: The History of the Internet] Monographie. Berlin, Kadmos Verlag 2008. (At amazon.de)
La utopía de la copia. El pop como irritació. Ensayos.
[The Utopia of the copy. Pop and Irritation. Essays] Buenos Aires, Interzona 2008
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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2022 Professor in Digital Culture and Society, King’s College London
2021-to 2022 Reader in Digital Culture and Society, King’s College London
2019-to 2022 Deputy Head of the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
2018-to 2021 Senior Lecturer in Digital Society at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
2014-2018 Senior Lecturer digital media and journalism, University of Westminster
2012 Director of the Hybrid Publishing Research Team focusing on Open Access and academic publishing at the University Leuphana, Lecturer in Cultural & Media Studies
2012 Affiliated Researcher Media Studies, Institute for History & Culture, University of Utrecht
2011 Fellow of the Centre for the Humanities, University Utrecht & the Impakt Festival
2007-2009 Seminar Lecturer Media Studies, “Online Journalism”, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
2006 Postdoctoral Researcher, DFG Program “Archive, Power, Knowledge – On Historic Organising, Controlling and Destroying of Knowledge Domains”, History Department University of Bielefeld, Germany
2005 Scholar Fulbright American Studies Institute, Washington, New York “The Role of Media in American Society”
2004 Post Graduate Program “Transnational Media Events”, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen, Germany
April 2003 Seminar lecturer at the Bauhaus University Weimar, “On authorship and the dangerous moment of the copy”.
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JOURNALISTIC APPOINTMENTS
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2009-2010 Reporter for Technology and Media, The Guardian
2007–2009 Editor-in-Chief Online Der Tagesspiegel, Holtzbrinck Verlag
Leading a team up to 20 editors. Developing new exciting forms of journalism. Integration and motivation of print editors. Endless defending of online journalism. Consultation for hybrid-content, spreadability and future development.
2006 Editor-in-chief zitty, Das Hauptstadtmagazin, Holtzbrinck Verlag
zitty, now dead, was back then the oldest and best-known Berlin city-guide magazine, published fortnightly. Led a team of 15 editors, developing new formats within the magazine. Wrote and wondered upon urban life, pop and social issues. There was also a relaunch of the website and data-base.
1997-2001 Co-founder and editor de:bug, magazine for electronic culture
Conception of a monthly magazine about electronic music and digital culture. Co-led a team of 7 editors. Managed chaos successfully and with some humour.
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EDUCATION
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2005 PhD. “From Storage to Distribution. On the history of the Internet”
Faculty of Media Studies, Bauhaus University Weimar. Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Scholarship.
2000 MA Phil (Philosophy and History of Art)
Freie Universität Berlin
Mercedes Bunz 