Dr. Mareike Meis
Senior Researcher, NOHA Director & Joint Examination Officer
Address
Nationality
German
Research Interests
Witnessing and Digital Evidence in International Criminal Investigations, Digital and Social Media in War and Crises Contexts, Civil-Resistance and Human Rights Practices, Feminist and Postcolonial Studies, Aesthetics of New Media, Media Anthropology, Social Psychology of Violence
Education
PhD in Media Studies, Faculty of Philology, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) on the Aestheticization and Politization of Death – The Syrian Conflict in Mobile Death Videos in a Diffractive Perspective
Work Experience and other Activities
General Secretary of the NOHA Network on Huma¬ni¬tarian Action
External Evaluator for the EU-funded Project “European Alliance of Universities – EDUC”, University of Potsdam
Coordinator of the NOHA Joint European Master’s Programme in International Humanitarian Action & Research Associate, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. (on family leave since 05/2015)
Most recent Publications
Chapter in Edited Volume (together with Eva Johais): „Unleash the hounds!“: Wenn Mems und andere Witzfiguren gegen Trolle in den digitalen Informationskrieg ziehen [“Unleash the hounds!“: When Memes and Other Figures Fight Trolls in the Digital Information War]. In: Grabbe, L. C. and Held, T. (eds): Bilder des Krieges. Darstellung und Kommunikation des Krieges im Digitalen Zeitalter. [Images of War. Presentation and Communication of War in the Digital Age]. Welt|Gestalten. Marburg: Büchner-Verlag
The Technologization of Street Demonstrations and the Agency of the Mobile Phone: A Short Story of the Future of Digital Witness Evidence. In: Navigationen, 01/2023 (eds.: J. Eckel, C. Ernst and J. Schröter)
Chapter in Edited Volume (together with Jennifer Eickelmann): Diffraktive Ethnografie Sozialer Medien: Diskurs – Ästhetik – Materialität [Diffractive Ethnography and Social Media: Discourse – Astehtics – Materiality]. In: Niebling L., F. Raczkowski and S. Stollfuß (eds): Handbuch Digitale Medien und Methoden [Handbook of Digital Media and Methods]. Heidelberg: Springer VS
Chapter in Edited Volume: Media Anthropology in Humanitarian Action. In: Heintze, H.-J./Thielbörger, P. (eds.): International Humanitarian Action. Textbook. 2nd ed. Heidelberg: Springer
Journal Article: 'Civil-Resistance Videography as Human Rights Practice: The Non-Survivor Testimony and the Striving for Criminal Jurisdiction in Syria and Beyond', In: Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2022, pp. 1-19.
Monograph: Die Ästhetisierung und Politisierung des Todes. Handyvideos von Gewalt und Tod im Syrienkonflikt. Bielefeld: transcript.
Chapter in Edited Volume: 'The Ambivalent Aesthetics and Perception of Mobile Phone Videos: A De/Escalating Factor for the Syrian Conflict.' In: Budka, Philipp/Bräuchler, Birgit (Hrsg.): Theorising Media and Conflict. New York/Oxford: Berghahn
Journal Article: ‘When is a conflict a crisis? On the aesthetics of the Syrian civil war in a social media context’, in: Media, War & Conflict, 10 (1) (first published June 2016), pp. 69-86
Journal Article: ‘Mobile Death Videos in Protest Movements: Cases from Iran and Syria’, in: Thanatos, 2(2), pp. 25–42
Other Activities and Memberships
Decentralized Equal Opportunity Officer, Institut für Friedenssicherungsrecht und Humanitäres Völkerrecht (IFHV), Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal for International Humanitarian Action (JIHA), Springer
Member in Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (GfM)
Language Skills
German (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Russian (beginner)
Arabic (beginner)