Benedikt Merkle

Benedikt Merkle is a researcher at the institute for media studies and a member of the CRC 1567 “Virtual Lifeworlds” at Ruhr-University Bochum. He completed his doctoral project on the media-history and aesthetics of digitally networked objects and internet technology at Bauhaus-University Weimar. He held positions as scientific coordinator at the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen and as a researcher within the NOMIS Project “The New Real” at Bauhaus-University Weimar. In 2023, he was a visiting researcher at UC Santa Barbara on a Fulbright scholarship.