Chris Köver
Chris Köver | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Köver in 2010 | |
| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) |
Chris Köver (born 1979) is a German journalist and feminist. She is co-founder and co-editor of the feminist Missy Magazine, which has been published since October 2008. Since 2018, she has worked full time in the editorial department of netzpolitik.org.
Life
[edit]Köver studied applied cultural studies and cultural studies in Lüneburg and Toronto from 1999 onwards. She completed a traineeship at Zeit Online from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, together with Stefanie Lohaus and Sonja Eismann, she founded Missy Magazine and continued to work as a freelance author, including for Die Zeit,[1] Zeit Campus and Neon. She has written about pop culture, net culture and new technologies.
In 2012 Köver published the book Mach's selbst – Do it yourself for girls together with Sonja Eismann. The book gives practical and technical tips for DIY projects for girls, such as starting a band, planting a garden or writing a blog.[2]
In 2014 Köver spent three months in the US on a Burns scholarship. From 2015 she was editor of the German-language edition of Wired, and in 2018 she moved to netzpolitik.org. Her topics there include state and private surveillance, artificial intelligence, digital violence and the surveillance of refugees.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Chris Köver". Zeit Online (in German). 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ beltz.de: Archived (Date missing) at beltz.de (Error: unknown archive URL) Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ "Chris Köver". netzpolitik.org. Retrieved 2019-09-15.