Theo Röhle
Senior Lecturer
Journalism Media and CommunicationDirector of Studies
Journalism Media and CommunicationAbout Theo Röhle
I am Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication.
Background From 2015 to 2019, I was senior lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University and Programme Director for the B.A. programme ”Digital Media and Analysis”. I received my M.A. from Stockholm University in 2003 and my Ph.D. in Media Culture from the University of Hamburg in 2009. Thereafter, I held postdoc positions at the Research Training Group ”Automatisms” in Paderborn and at Braunschweig University of Art, both in Germany.
Research Interests I am primarily interested in developing critical perspectives on digital media, both from a contemporary and historical perspective. My research is situated at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, digital media studies and historical media studies. In my Ph.D. thesis, I examined the ranking algorithms and tracking mechanisms of the search engine Google and discussed their implications in terms of power relations built into code. During my postdocs positions, my research focused on social media and datafication, as well as software studies based on historical case studies within the areas of Digital Humanities and Gamification.
Current Research Project My current research project focuses on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against media organisations as a new form of censorship. In media studies, DDoS is often portrayed as a variant of progressive digital activism, but during recent years, these attacks are increasingly used in order to silence reporting on politically inconvenient or controversial issues. Media organisations are thus forced to turn to external providers for protection against IT attacks. Based on current approaches in Infrastructure Studies and on interviews with IT professionals as well as journalists, the project investigates in how far these developments undermine the Internet’s promise to democratise publishing and distribution.
Teaching Right now, I primarily teach introductory courses in Media and Communication Studies.
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Protocol
G. Beuster, O. Leistert, Theo Röhle
Internet Policy Review - 2022-01-01 -
The Politics of Protection. DDoS Mitigation and the Care for
Infrastructure
Theo Röhle
4S 2021 Toronto - Good Relations. Practices and Methods in Unequal and Uncertain Worlds - 2021-01-01 -
DDoS: From Activist Event to Perpetual
Crisis
Theo Röhle
communication +1 - 2021-01-01 -
"One man's simulation exercise is still another man's game" : Zum Verhältnis von Modell, Simulation und
Spiel
Theo Röhle
Unternehmensplanspiele 1955-1975: Die Herstellung unternehmerischer Rationalität im Spiel - 2019-01-01 -
„Data should be cooked with care“ : Digitale Kartographie zwischen Akkumulation und
Aggregation
Theo Röhle
Bedeutende Daten: Modelle, Verfahren und Praxis der Vermessung und Verdatung im Netz - 2018-01-01 -
Die Software sozialer
Medien
Theo Röhle
Handbuch Soziale Medien - 2017-01-01 -
Digital Methods. From Challenges to
Bildung
Bernhard Rieder, Theo Röhle
The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data - 2017-01-01 -
Rezension von Felix Stalder ”Kultur der
Digitalität”
Theo Röhle
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft - 2016-01-01 -
’Schulen ohne zu schulmeistern’ : Unternehmensplanspiele in den
1960er-Jahren
Rolf F. Nohr, Theo Röhle
Zeithistorische Forschungen - 2016-01-01 -
Crowdfunding of Academic Books : A Case
Study
Oliver Leistert, Theo Röhle
The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for making-learning-creating-acting - 2014-01-01 -
Teilmengen. Mengen teilen : Taxonomien, Ordnungen und Massen im Facebook Open
Graph
Irina Kaldrack, Theo Röhle
Soziale Medien – Neue Massen - 2014-01-01 -
Divide and Share : Taxonomies, Orders and Masses in Facebooks Open
Graph
Irina Kaldrack, Theo Röhle
Computational Culture - 2014-01-01 -
Das Beste aus beiden Welten? Wissenschaft und
Crowdfunding
Oliver Leistert, Theo Röhle
Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft - 2013-01-01 -
Automatismen –
Selbst-Technologien
Hannelore Bublitz, Irina Kaldrack, Theo Röhle, Mirna Zeman
- 2013-01-01 -
Digital Methods: Five
Challenges
Bernhard Rieder, Theo Röhle
Understanding Digital Humanities - 2012-01-01 -
Strategien ohne Strategen : Intentionalität als ’Strukturentstehung durch
Verflechtung’?
Theo Röhle
Strukturentstehung durch Verflechtung: Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie(n) und Automatismen - 2011-01-01 -
Ausweitung der Kontrollzone : Cloud Computing und die Verdatung der Bildung unter kommerziellen
Vorzeichen
Theo Röhle
Kontrolle und Selbstkontrolle: Zur Ambivalenz von E-Portfolios in Bildungsprozessen - 2011-01-01 -
Generation Facebook : Über das Leben im Social
Net
Oliver Leistert, Theo Röhle
- 2011-01-01 -
Unsichtbare Hände : Automatismen in Medien-, Technik- und
Diskursgeschichte
Hannelore Bublitz, Irina Kaldrack, Theo Röhle, Hartmut Winkler
- 2011-01-01 -
Der Google-Komplex : Über Macht im Zeitalter des
Internets
Theo Röhle
- 2010-01-01 -
Dissecting the Gatekeepers : Relational Perspectives on the Power of Search
Engines
Theo Röhle
Deep Search: The Politics of Search beyond Google - 2009-01-01 -
’Think of it first as an advertising system’ : Personalisierte Online-Suche als Datenlieferant des
Marketings
Theo Röhle
kommunikation@gesellschaft - 2007-01-01 -
Machtkonzepte in der
Suchmaschinenforschung
Theo Röhle
Die Macht der Suchmaschinen. The Power of Search Engines - 2007-01-01 -
Desperately seeking the consumer Personalized search engines and the commercial exploitation of user
data
Theo Röhle
First Monday - 2007-01-01 -
Power, Reason, Closure : Critical Perspectives on New Media
Theory
Theo Röhle
New Media and Society - 2005-01-01