Boris Michel is a Professor for Digital Geography at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. He earned his doctoral degree in (urban) sociology from the University of Münster and his habilitation in geography from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In his current research he is working on the political geographies of open geospatial data, the geographies of digital labour and the geographies of digital infrastructures.
BM Prof. Dr. Boris Michel ( Partner)
Keywords: Digital Geography, STS, Urban Studies, Critical Cartography
Bio
Selected Publications
Michel, Boris; Ecker, Yannick (2025): Seeing Economic Development Like a Large Language Model. A Methodological Approach to the Exploration of Geographical Imaginaries in Generative AI. In: Geoforum (158), S. 104175.
Ecker, Yannick / Michel, Boris (2025): Die Skalenebene des Betriebs als Gegenstand nachholender Regulierung. Räumlich-fragmentierte Arbeit und das digitale Zugangsrecht für Gewerkschaften. In: Geographische Zeitschrift
Michel, Boris; Dammann, Finn (2024): Breakdowns, (Un-)Sichtbarkeiten und glitches. Kritische Geographien der Resilienz digitaler Infrastrukturen. In: Geographica Helvetica 79 (4), S. 311–323. DOI: 10.5194/gh-79-311-2024
Michel, Boris (2024): Geomediatization and the Messy Futuring of Geodata Commons. In: Media and Communication 12, Artikel 9002. DOI: 10.17645/mac.9002.
Michel, Boris (2023): The digital humanities and geography‘s spatial thought. In: Dammann, Finn; Kremer, Dominik (Hg.), Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities. Spatial concepts, approaches. Bielefeld: Transcript, S. 35–41.
Schröder-Bergen, Susanne; Glasze, Georg; Michel, Boris; Dammann, Finn (2022) De/colonizing OpenStreetMap? Local mappers, humanitarian and commercial actors and the changing modes of collaborative mapping. In: Geojournal. 87, S. 5051-5066.
Orangotango+(2018): This Is Not an Atlas. A Global Collection of Counter Cartographies. Bielefeld: Transcript