PEAK-Expert
Oliver Leistert
Focus
ARTICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Contact
email:
oliver.leistert@uibk.ac.at
phone:
+43 512 507 73611
web:
Department of Media, Society and Communication
Personal Website
Speaks: English, German
Oliver Leistert is a media studies scholar specializing in media dynamics and social change. His research focuses on the relationship and connection between media change and climate change, both from a social and an ecological perspective. In particular, he focuses on the connections between artificial intelligence and climate change.
Focus Cloud: Media Transformation, AI and Climate Change, Social Media, Socio-Ecological Consequences of Digital Communication
About
Oliver Leistert studied philosophy, modern German literature, and computer science at the University of Hamburg. He earned his doctorate at the University of Paderborn with a thesis on (media)-activism, surveillance, and neoliberalism. Leistert was a research fellow at the Central European University in Budapest, a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg in the project “Complexity or Control? Paradigms for Sustainable Development,” and spent three years in Lüneburg in a position funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), where he focused on the promises and dangers of blockchain technologies and related areas.