Malte Ziewitz
Malte is a DPhil (read: PhD) candidate at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford.
Broadly based in science & technology studies, management studies and public policy, his research revolves around new and non-obvious modes of governance and regulation in digitally networked environments—the dynamics at work, the values at stake, the design options at hand. In his doctoral project, he explores the practical politics of web-based review and rating schemes as a techno-scientific solution to public problems in healthcare, web search and academic assessment.
Malte holds a First State Exam in Law ("sehr gut") from the University of Hamburg School of Law and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was also a McCloy Scholar. He is still affiliated with his former academic home, the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, has been appointed a non-resident Fellow at the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen, and worked on a number of multidisciplinary research teams at Harvard, Oxford, St. Gallen, Hamburg and the OECD.
Malte has designed and taught courses on governance, technology and society. As Principal Investigator, he just started a new project on “How’s My Feedback? A Collaborative Project to Evaluate and Rethink Internet-based Rating and Ranking Schemes”, which is funded by an ESRC Knowledge Exchange Small Grant. Before discovering the colourful life of an academic, he worked as a radio reporter and copywriter.
