Fabian Pittroff

Contact

SFB 1567: Virtuelle Lebenswelten
Universitätsstr. 150 GB 8/33
44801 Bochum

+49 (0)234 32 20642
fabian.pittroff@rub.de
https://www.sfb1567.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/

Research Areas

Digital culture, infrastructures of research, ethnography of the virtual, sociology of intelligence

Currently, I‘m interested in infrastructures of research and various modes of doing intelligence. I wrote my dissertation about being personal in private and on the internet – think about selfies and how they can facilitate personal accessibility. I started my academic biography reading a lot of post-structuralist theory. In the past decade I grew fond of doing qualitativ research especially ethnographies of socio-digital situations. I think I’m biased towards the positive effects of technology and I hope to do optimistic research.

Since 2022/10:
Postdoc at CRC 1567 Virtual Lifeworlds in the subproject INF: Information Infrastructure, Technology and Praxeology

2022/02:
Defense of the PhD thesis „Die private und die verteilte Person. Studien zu Personalisierung und Privatheit in Zeiten der Digitalisierung“ (The private person and the distributed one) at the University of Kassel (magna cum laude)

2019/04 - 2019/10:
PhD scholarship from the University of Kassel

2014/01 - 2022/09:
Research assistant at the chair for Sociological Theorie at the University of Kassel

2003/10 - 2011/09:
Study of Political Science, German Literature and Ethics of Text Cultures at the University of Augsburg

Publications

Visit the website of the CRC 1567 Virtual Lifeworlds for a full list of publication.