Mercedes Bunz is a Dr. phil. and lives and works in London.
She is available for speaking engagements, and can be reached at mercedes|dot|bunz|at|de|minus|bug|dot|de, but in case you newsletter or spam her, she won’t like it. Think about it twice, while reading her on Twitter.com/mrsbunz.
• Energetic, experienced and generally optimistic digital thinker
• Visionary writer on digital technology & society published in English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch
• Motivating managing editor experienced in print and online journalism
• Lively international conference speaker who is booked alongside Jeff Jarvis or Clay Shirky
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Published Work – Books
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Vom Speichern zum Verteilen. Die Geschichte des Internet. [From Storage to Distribution: The History of the Internet] Monographie. Berlin, Kadmos Verlag 2008. (At amazon.de)
Animated in a beautiful short film by Melih Bilgil.
La utopía de la copia. El pop como irritació
[The Utopia of the copy. Pop and Irritation. Essays] Ensayos. Buenos Aires, Interzona 2008
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Work Experience
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September 2009 Reporter for Technology and Media, The Guardian
March 2007 – August 2009 Editor-in-Chief Online Der Tagesspiegel, Holtzbrinck Verlag
Leading a team up to 20 editors. Developing new forms of interactive journalism. Supervising relaunch of website and fine-tuning. Integration and motivation of print editors. Representation of the brand. Defending good-humored online journalism. Consultation for hybrid-content, spreadability and future development.
May 2009 Guest Lecturer “Online Journalism”, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
February 2009 Guest Lecturer “Make Me Visible, Context-driven design process in Print and Online Journalism“, ZHDK, Zurich, Switzerland
March 2006 Editor-in-chief zitty, Das Hauptstadtmagazin, Holtzbrinck Verlag
zitty, the oldest and best-known Berlin city-guide magazine, published fortnightly. Led a team of 15 editors, developing new formats within the magazine. Wrote and commented urban life, pop and social issues. Relaunch of the website and data-base.
September 2005 Scholar Fulbright American Studies Institute, Washington, New York
“The Role of Media in American Society”
January 2004 Post Graduate Program “Transnational Media Events”, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen, Germany
April 2003 Lectureship at the Bauhaus University Weimar, ”On authorship, repeatability, and the dangerous moment of the copy.”
July 1997-January 2001 Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief de:bug, Magazine for Electronic Culture
Conception of a monthly magazine about electronic music and digital culture. Co-led a team of 7 editors. Managed chaos successfully and with some humor. Representation of the brand.
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Education
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2005 PhD. “From Storage to Distribution. On the history of the Internet”
Faculty of Media Studies, Bauhaus University Weimar. Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Scholarship.
1999 Academic Studies of Philosophy and Art-History
Freie Universität Berlin
1991 A-level, Celtis-Gymnasium
Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany
