Randi Heinrichs

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C40.313
Fon +49.4131.677-2501 (Sekr.), randi.heinrichs@leuphana.de
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Centre for Digital Cultures

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Vita

Randi Heinrichs is a postdoc at the Center for Digital Cultures at the Leuphana University Luneburg in the research project 'Smartness as Wealth'. She has a background in cultural studies with a specialization in critical data studies. Her research interests, teaching and writing focus on power relations, social practices and technical conditions that shape our politics of knowledge in digital cultures. In this context, she researches topics such as digital twins, personalization, anonymity, whistleblowing, data discrimination and web archiving. 

Her dissertation on anonymity, social media platforms and (data) neighborhoods, which she successfully completed in 2023, combines ethnography, archival exploration with media and cultural theory. 

In 2022, she received the Canadian MITACS award for emerging scholars for international collaboration in the research network 'Desegregating Network Neighborhoods', which examines the urban history of algorithms, led by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Laura Kurgan. She is an alumna of the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group at UC Berkeley, and an affiliate of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University as well of the research project DALOSS at the University of Copenhagen.

Since 2024 she serves as one of the managing editors of the open access journal ephemera. theory and politics of organization.

Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Anonymity reprogrammed: How the digital economy is changing our politics of (non)identification through imaginaries of persona-lization and data-neighborhoods
    Randi Michaela Heinrichs (Author) , 2024

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review

  2. Politics of Reproduction
    Benjamin James Trott (Editor) , Dirk Armin Beverungen (Editor) , Clemens Apprich (Editor) , Inga Luchs (Editor) , Laura Simone Hille (Editor) , Randi Michaela Heinrichs (Editor) , Sascha Simons (Editor) , 2020 Lüneburg

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. Politics of Reproduction
    Benjamin James Trott (Author) , Dirk Armin Beverungen (Author) , Clemens Apprich (Author) , Inga Luchs (Author) , Laura Simone Hille (Author) , Randi Michaela Heinrichs (Author) , Sascha Simons (Author) , 01.03.2020 , in: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures, 2000, #6 , p. 1-10 , 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research

  2. How to protect the truth? Challenges of cybersecurity, investigative journalism and whistleblowing in times of surveillance capitalism.: An interview with Micah Lee
    Randi Michaela Heinrichs (Author) , Micah Lee (Author) , 01.11.2019 , in: Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization, 19, 4 , p. 807-824 , 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Media and Migration: Editorial
    Clemens Apprich (Author) , Dirk Armin Beverungen (Author) , Magdalena Freudenschuß (Author) , Laura Simone Hille (Author) , Sascha Simons (Author) , Carolin Wiedemann (Author) , Randi Michaela Heinrichs (Author) , Hana Yoosuf (Author) , 01.01.2017 , in: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures, 4, 2 , 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research

  4. De-Anonymizing Anonymous: Review of: Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy. The Many Faces of Anonymous, London/New York, Verso, 2014.
    Randi Michaela Heinrichs (Author) , 01.08.2016 , in: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures, 2, Ecologies of Change , 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Where do the data live?: Anonymity and Neighborhood Networks
    Randi Michaela Heinrichs (Author) , 03.04.2021 , p. 226-254 , 29 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

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Courses