Nenad Romic

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Romić started his research “Ruling Class Studies” at Jan van Eyck (2011-12), continued at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2013) and since spring 2015, he is a PhD student at Leuphana University in DCRL (Digital Cultures Research Lab). “Ruling Class Studies” is a research of corporate state-of-the-art digital innovation, adaptation, and intelligence. It looks closely at the Google, Amazon, Facebook and eBay.

As part of "Ruling Class Studies, the PhD at DCRL took a direction of "Digital Libraries". It is a study about the transition dynamics of libraries in the age of digital networks. The aim of the research is to understand and articulate the socio­economic, political, ethical and technological conditions which are underlying the global crisis of knowledge institutions and inequality of access to knowledge and knowledge production; to recognize the role and importance of emerging alternatives; to propose the conceptual framework for possible future policy guidelines of necessary changes in the current political, economical and legal regimes and imaginaries.