Ramón Reichert (Dr. phil. habil.) is a cultural and media theorist and Senior Researcher at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna. He previously served as Professor of New Media Studies and Digital Culture at the University of Vienna (2009–2013) and has held research and teaching positions at institutions in Vienna, Berlin, Basel, Helsinki, Stockholm, Zurich, and Canberra.
He is the founding editor and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Digital Culture & Society and the initiator of the international research network Social Media Studies. His research focuses on media history and theory, digital cultures, visual culture, social media, critical media theory, and the politics of knowledge, power, and representation.
His recent publications include Rethinking AI: Neural Networks, Biometrics and the New Artificial Intelligence (2018); Social Media: Perspectives on the Challenges of Cybersecurity, Algorithmic Governmentality and Artificial Intelligence (2021); Networked Images in Surveillance Capitalism (2021); Coding Covid-19: The Rise of the App-Society (2022); Digital War: Media Strategies and Visual Politics during the Full-Scale Attack of Russia on Ukraine (2024); Autonomous Occupation: Israel’s AI-Driven Drone Warfare and the Digital Architecture of Authoritarian Power (2025); and Critical AI: Rethinking Intelligence, Bias, and Control (forthcoming).
