Introduction
Associate Professor Journalism Studies and Digital Methods. Researching on journalism for the connected society, smart cities and civic cultures.
Expert
Christoph Raetzsch is Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies of Aarhus University (Denmark) since 2019. He works in journalism studies and researches history and theory of media development and practice in journalism, public spheres and urban spaces. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the project OrganiCity His recent research deals with interpretations of smartness to animate civic innovation in cities, the interfaces and infrastructures of publics besides journalism, and the emergent potential of quotidian media practices to shape public discourses. He is also a principal lecturer in the Erasmus Mundus Journalism MA Programme at Aarhus University.
Christoph Raetzsch obtained his PhD at the Graduate School of North American Studies Berlin (2009-2014) with a dissertation on “Journalistic Practices and the Cultural Valuation of New Media”. This study laid out a framework of practice theory to describe changes in journalism and public communication as new technologies emerge. In his current research, he is developing an analytic and theoretical model for the circulation of communicative objects to analyze infrastructures of publics as they emerge between online and offline networks of actors. Christoph Raetzsch was a research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (Berlin) and maintains a broad network with ICA and ECREA communities. Languages spoken: German, English, French, Dutch, Japanese, Danish
Fields of expertise: Communication and information/ICTs