The Rise of Digital Governmentality in the Era of Covid-19

Ramón Reichert is a visiting professor for philosophy of science and methods of social research at the Cooperative State University, Mosbach, Germany; a senior researcher at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and the program director of MSc data studies at Danube University in Krems, Austria. He previously held teaching and research positions in Basel, Berlin, Fribourg, Helsinki, Lancaster, St. Gallen, Stockholm, and Zurich and was a long-time EU project coordinator. His research interests include the historiography of media and technology, the influence of new media and communication technologies (internet, social media, visual culture), and identity politics. He is the coeditor of the refereed, international journal Digital Culture & Society, in which he has published various articles, including “Rethinking AI: Neural Networks, Biometrics and the New Artificial Intelligence” (2018), “The Politics of Metadata” (2020), and “Networked Images in Surveillance Capitalism” (2022). Reichert is also the editor of Big Data (2014), coauthor of Social Machine Facebook (2019), and author of Selfies: Self-thematization in digital image culture (2023).