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She is the Senior Internet Governance researcher as well as the head of the Innovation Department organizer and the Social Sciences Center for Research head, in all of which takes place in Berlin, Germany.
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'''Jeanette Hofmann''' is an expert on internet governance, she is a senior researcher on the subject at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) and also teaches at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.<ref>[http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/jeanette-hofmann/person_view mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org]</ref>  Dr. Hofmann is also an ESRC Research Officer at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science.<ref>[http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/CARR/aboutUs/staff/hofmann.aspx lse.ac.uk]</ref>


Her research interests include; uncertainty and risk, risk governance, transnational regulation and private authority, standard setting for information and communication technologies, domain interests, internet governance, regulation of knowledge (copyright law).<ref>[http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/CARR/aboutUs/staff/hofmann.aspx lse.ac.uk]</ref><ref>[https://sites.google.com/a/internetundgesellschaft.de/betasite-en/forschungsbereiche/internet-governance sites.google.com]</ref>
== Career & Industry Involvement ==
Dr. Hofmann was involved with [[ICANN]] as a researcher and as an "At Large Membership" Activist, just a few years after ICANN was founded. She was a European Candidate in ICANN's first online election in 2000. After which, she also worked with an NGO and Academic Science Group called [[NAIS]], and from there became involved in ICANN's [[ALS|At Large Membership Structure]]. She served on ICANN's [[NomCom]] as a voting member in 2004 and 2005.<ref>[http://www.diplomacy.edu/conferences/ig/speakers.asp diplomacy.edu]</ref>


== Personal Development ==
She joined the [[WSIS]] Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus in 2003.  Throughout 2004 and 2005 she served, together with [[Adam Peake]], as co-coordinator of the caucus. During that same period, she was a member of the German delegation to the World Summit representing the German WSIS civil society coordination group.<ref>[http://www.wsis-cs.org/igfnominees.shtml?slice_id=3e640adb2506b8421b3f31232657571b&sh_itm=e802a11f6cd5d4092869adcc2d9a3c93 wsis-cs.org]</ref> In 2003, she was a member of the [[IETF]]'s "problem statement" working group. She has been a member of the academic advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Germany, and the Committee for Communication and Information of the German Chapter of UNESCO, since 2002.<ref>[http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/jeanette-hofmann/person_view MediaResearchHub.org]</ref>


She has also been:
*Member of the Enquete Commission of the German Parliament on Internet and Digital Society.
*Internet Governance Project, Partner, 2005-2008.
*GigaNet, Network of Internet researchers, Vice Chair of steering committee, 2007.<ref>[http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/CARR/aboutUs/staff/hofmann.aspx lse.ac.uk]</ref>


She was a born leader; she would take control of the IG (Internet Governance) association which was essentially a cornerstone of Social Science Research in Berlin. During the years of 1995-2000, Dr. Hoffman (As she earned her Doctorate) would work on a project called the “The Internet Cultural Area” going into in-depth details of the Internet and how it has effected our cultural as a whole since it was brought into existence and how it has changed over the years and how it will continue to change as the years go on, paving way for even more ideas to come.
== Select Publications ==
*'Et in Arcadia Ego: From Techno-Utopia to Cybercrime' published in Hood, Christopher, Margetts, Helen and Perri 6 (eds), Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reforms, Oxford University Press, pp 81-100. (2010)
*'The Libertarian Origins of Cybercrime: Unintended Side-Effects of a Political Utopia', CARR Discussion Paper 62. (2010)
*'Transnational governance spirals: the transformation of rule-making authority in Internet regulation and corporate financial reporting' in Critical Policy Studies 4 (1): 18-37. (2010)
*Discussion Paper SP III 2007-107, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, 67 S.
*'ICANN, in: Global Information Society Watch 2007.' S. 39-47.
*"Governing the Internet: The Quest for Legitimate and Effective Rules", in: Achim Hurrelmann, Stephan Leibfried, Kerstin Martens, Peter Mayer (Hg.), Transforming the Golden Age Nation State, Basingstoke: Palgrave, S. 130-151. (2007)
*(Trans-)Formations of Civil Society in Global Governance Contexts - Two case studies on the problem of self-organization. (2005)
*Internet Governance: A Regulative Idea in Flux. (2005) <ref>[http://duplox.wzb.eu/people/jeanette/index.shtml duplox.wzb.eu]</ref>


== Education ==
Ms. Hofmann holds a PhD in Political Science.


== Career Development ==
== External Links ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agb5mIzWtFE Dr. Jeanette Hofmann]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQkNxoz358Q&feature=related  TV: interview with Jeanette Hofmann]
*[http://geertlovink.org/interviews/interview-with-jeanette-hofmann/ Interview with Jeanette Hofmann]


== References ==
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She is also a teacher who has taught for the University of Duisburg-Essen, teaching about politics as well as Communications in America for the University of California, Berkley where she would teach International Area studies.
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She has been part of the ICANN community for many years now serving as a nominating committee and she has ensured many of the site’s products and meetings take place at their pre-destined locations. Since she already leads the IG she is also a member of it’s Civil Society Committee which helps endow political education to a much more massive audience.
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Latest revision as of 17:55, 26 May 2021
Country: Germany
Email: jeanette [at] wzb.eu

Jeanette Hofmann is an expert on internet governance, she is a senior researcher on the subject at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) and also teaches at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.[1] Dr. Hofmann is also an ESRC Research Officer at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[2]

Her research interests include; uncertainty and risk, risk governance, transnational regulation and private authority, standard setting for information and communication technologies, domain interests, internet governance, regulation of knowledge (copyright law).[3][4]

Career & Industry Involvement[edit | edit source]

Dr. Hofmann was involved with ICANN as a researcher and as an "At Large Membership" Activist, just a few years after ICANN was founded. She was a European Candidate in ICANN's first online election in 2000. After which, she also worked with an NGO and Academic Science Group called NAIS, and from there became involved in ICANN's At Large Membership Structure. She served on ICANN's NomCom as a voting member in 2004 and 2005.[5]

She joined the WSIS Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus in 2003. Throughout 2004 and 2005 she served, together with Adam Peake, as co-coordinator of the caucus. During that same period, she was a member of the German delegation to the World Summit representing the German WSIS civil society coordination group.[6] In 2003, she was a member of the IETF's "problem statement" working group. She has been a member of the academic advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Germany, and the Committee for Communication and Information of the German Chapter of UNESCO, since 2002.[7]

She has also been:

  • Member of the Enquete Commission of the German Parliament on Internet and Digital Society.
  • Internet Governance Project, Partner, 2005-2008.
  • GigaNet, Network of Internet researchers, Vice Chair of steering committee, 2007.[8]

Select Publications[edit | edit source]

  • 'Et in Arcadia Ego: From Techno-Utopia to Cybercrime' published in Hood, Christopher, Margetts, Helen and Perri 6 (eds), Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reforms, Oxford University Press, pp 81-100. (2010)
  • 'The Libertarian Origins of Cybercrime: Unintended Side-Effects of a Political Utopia', CARR Discussion Paper 62. (2010)
  • 'Transnational governance spirals: the transformation of rule-making authority in Internet regulation and corporate financial reporting' in Critical Policy Studies 4 (1): 18-37. (2010)
  • Discussion Paper SP III 2007-107, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, 67 S.
  • 'ICANN, in: Global Information Society Watch 2007.' S. 39-47.
  • "Governing the Internet: The Quest for Legitimate and Effective Rules", in: Achim Hurrelmann, Stephan Leibfried, Kerstin Martens, Peter Mayer (Hg.), Transforming the Golden Age Nation State, Basingstoke: Palgrave, S. 130-151. (2007)
  • (Trans-)Formations of Civil Society in Global Governance Contexts - Two case studies on the problem of self-organization. (2005)
  • Internet Governance: A Regulative Idea in Flux. (2005) [9]

Education[edit | edit source]

Ms. Hofmann holds a PhD in Political Science.

External Links[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

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