Prof. Dr. Urte Undine Frömming
Head of Program
M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology
u.froemming[at]hmkw.deProf. Dr. Undine Frömming is a professor at the HMKW, University for Media, Communication and Management in Berlin. She received her doctorate in 2005 from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin (Dr. Phil.). She worked as a professor at Freie Universität Berlin from 2009 to 2021 (including heading the Visual Anthropology and Environmental Anthropology department). She is head of the Humanities department at HMKW Berlin with the two courses M.A. Artificial Intelligence and Societies and M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology. Prof. Dr. Frömming is an environmental anthropologist specializing in climate and disaster research. She has conducted several visual-anthropological field studies in eastern Indonesia, eastern Africa (Tanzania), and Iceland. She has also published numerous articles and books on digital anthropology, artificial nature, virtual environments, climate change, and natural disasters. She was a principal investigator for the third-party-funded LION project. Digital Learning Environments for Social and Cultural Sciences at the National University Kyiv Mohala Academy (NaUKMA) in the funding line Ukraine Digital and the research project ANIK Alpine Natural Hazards in Times of Climate Change (BMBF). Furthermore, she received funding from the European Union for the project WRITER. Writing, Reading, Inclusion. The European Richness. She also received funding for the joint project (with partners from Latin American countries) for the project SPRING. Social Responsibility through Prosociality-based Internevions to Generate equal opportunities funded by the European Commission EureopeAid, section ALFA III.
Frömming, Urte Undine (ed.) 2023 Artificial Intelligence Technology and Culture. In: Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology. Vol. 8, 2023 (im Druck).
Frömming, Urte Undine, Ana Correa, Daniel Wood (eds.) 2022: Intersecting Virtualities: Applied Research on Digital Anthropology and Virtual Environments. In: Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology Vol 7. 2022.
2021 Frömming, Urte Undine, Wood, Leandro Goddinho, Blake Paul Kendall, Daniel Wood (eds.) Journal oof Visual and Media Anthropology Vol 6, Nr. 1, 2021 Social Media Activism and Algorithmic Communities: From Grassroots and Indigenous Mobilization to Digital Revolution. https://www.hmkw.de/hochschule/fachbereiche/humanities/journals/vma-journal-vol-6-2021