Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Markus Oermann
97074 Würzburg
flexible by arrangement by e-mail
Digital Ethics and Media Law
Chairman of the Examination Board of the “Digital Society” degree program
Program advisor of the degree program “Digital Society”
Teaching Areas
Regular courses
- Introduction to the law (Bachelor Digital Society)
- Topics in Socioinformatics (Bachelor Digital Society)
- Media and Copyright Law (Bachelor Digital Society)
- ELSI and Digitalization (Bachelor Digital Society)
- Data Protection Law (Bachelor Business Analytics, Bachelor Media Management)
- Governance, Risk, Compliance and Ethics (Bachelor Information Security)
- Ethical Leadership (Master Digital Business Systems)
- Trustworthy AI and AI Regulations (Master Artificial Intelligence)
Publications
Talks/Panels/Workshops
- 30.01.25: Lawyers' Day of the District Government of Lower Franconia, Würzburg
- 12.11.24: European Conference of the Federal Chamber of Architects, Panel
- 12.11.24: AI Week Mainfranken - “Shaping AI ethically!” - together with Prof. Dr. Nicholas Müller
- 25.10.24: IWI-Net annual meeting, Würzburg - “Why digital ethics concerns us all”
- 12.10.24: FIW alumni meeting, Würzburg - “Digital ethics and AI - equality as a fundamental value”
- 10.06.24: Transforming Media, Würzburg - Panel
- 13.05.2024: United Europe AI Advocacy Seminar, Berlin - “AI powered Disinformation - A Threat to Election Integrity (?)”
Journal Articles/Discussion Papers/Monographies (en.)
with Martina Chapman: Supporting quality journalism through media and information literacy. Study for MSI-JOQ Committee of experts on quality journalism in the digital age, 2020, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
with Wolfgang Schulz: Assessing Policy III: Regulatory Impact Assessment, in: H. V. den Bulck, M. Puppis, K. Donders, & L. V. Audenhove (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research, Palgrave Macmillan 2019, London: p. 575–593, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16065-4
with Tobias Mast and Wolfgang Schulz: Doing Internet Governance: Constructing Normative Structures inside and outside of Intermediary Organisations, 2016, in: GigaNet Symposium 2016 Conference Proceedings.
with Lennart Ziebarth: Interpreting code – Adapting the methodology to analyze the normative contents of law for the analysis of technology, in: Computer Law and Security Review 2015, Vol. 31, Nr. 2: p. 257-267.
with Nils Töllner: The Evolution of Governance Structure in Cryptocurrencies and the Emergence of Code-Based Arbitration in Bitcoin, in: Berkman Center for Internet & Society Research Publication Series, No. 2015-5.
with Martin Lose, Katharina Johnsen und Jan-Hinrik Schmidt: Approaching Social Media Governance, in: HIIG Discussion Paper Series, No. 2014-05.