Clara Iglesias Keller is a legal scholar specialized in digital technologies and media regulation. She is co-leader of the research group “Technology, Power, and Domination” at the Weizenbaum Institute. She holds a Doctorate degree in public law from the Rio de Janeiro State University (equivalent to “summa cum laude” in the German system) with a thesis on legitimacy requirements for the regulation of digital platforms. She develops her work in Germany, Brazil (where she is a Visiting Professor at Instituto de Desenvolvimento e Pesquisa – IDP), and in international research forums (specially as a founding member of the Executive Committee at the Platform Governance Research Network).
Her research approaches the relationship between technologies and democratic institutions, looking at both how technological transformation challenges law and regulation and at its long-term implications for how these institutions are shaped to meet their ends. Her recent work includes topics such as technology bans, platform governance and regulation, democratic legitimacy and constitutional narratives in digital policy, content moderation, disinformation countermeasures, and the consequences of the expansion of artificial intelligence for political participation.
After completing her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at LMU Munich in 2013, Antonia Meythaler was accepted into the Y-model for outstanding bachelor’s graduates and the doctoral program at LMU Munich. Until September 2017, she worked at the Institute for Information Systems and New Media (WIM) with Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess as research assistant and doctoral candidate. After completing her Master of Business Research as part of her doctoral studies at LMU in April 2016, Antonia Meythaler was invited by the School of Information (UC Berkeley) to work as a visiting researcher in the USA from August to October 2016.
As part of her research activities, she was involved in the “Digital Life” research group, which studies issues of digitalization in the private sphere. In May 2017, she received her Ph.D. with a thesis on “Social Referrals via Personal Communication Tools”. Her research contributions have been published at nationally and internationally renowned conferences such as ECIS, AMCIS, HICSS and MKWI as well as in the journals Electronic Commerce Research and Applications and Informatik-Spektrum.
Jakob Ohme is currently holding a Guest Professorship for Political Communication at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) at the University of Zurich and a Senior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum.
At Weizenbaum Institute, Jakob leads the interdisciplinary Digital News Dynamics research group, exploring the impact and dissemination of professional journalism on digital platforms versus other sources such as influencers or artificial intelligence.
Jakob’s work emphasizes the changes digital and mobile communications bring to news consumption and political engagement, particularly across different generations. He is dedicated to advancing digital methodologies in political communication and journalism research, notably through the innovative use of digital trace data. Jakob is also a co-principal investigator in the #DSA40 Collaboratory, focusing on collaborative access to platform data under the EU’s Digital Services Act.
Prior to his work in Berlin, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, and as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Journalism, University of Southern Denmark, where he also earned his PhD degree in 2017.
