• Since 01/2017: Professor of Internet Politics, Freie Universität Berlin

• Since 01/2014: Honorary Professor of Internet Politics, Central Institute of Further Education at Universität der Künste Berlin

• Since 10/2013: Head of the Project Group "The Internet Policy Field", WZB

• Since 2013: Head of the research group "Politics of Digitalization", Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)

• Since April 2012: Director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

• 10/2010 to 09/2013: Member of Research Unit "Cultural Sources of Newness", WZB

• 2010 to 2013: Expert member, Parliamentary Enquiry Commission Internet and Digital Society, Deutscher Bundestag

• 10/2007 to 09/2010: Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation

• 2003 to 2006: Member of the Collaborative Research Center 597 "Transformations of the State", Subproject "Regulation and Legitimation on the Internet", University of Bremen

• 2003 to 2004: Interim professor for Politics and Communication, Department of Political Science, University Duisburg-Essen

• 2000 to 2007: Fellow and Program Leader, Internet Governance, Research Units "Innovation und Organisation" & "New Forms of Governance", WZB

• 1995 to 1999: Member of Project Group "Kulturraum Internet" in the Research Unit "Organization and Technology", WZB

• 1992: Dr. rer. pol., Free University of Berlin, Thesis: Implizite Theorien in der Politik. Interpretationsprobleme regionaler Modernisierungspolitik. [Implicit Theories in Policy Discourse. An Inquiry into the Interpretations of Reality in German Technology Policy]

Winter term 2023/24

• MA - Seminar 28761: Theorien der digitalen Gesellschaft

Summer term 2022

• MA - Seminar 28842: Was ist Digitalpolitik und kann man sie untersuchen?

Winter term 2021/22

• MA - Seminar 28811: Künstliche Intelligenz und Gesellschaft

Summer term 2021

• MA - Seminar 28841: Internet Policy

Winter term 2020/21

• MA - Seminar 28812: Digitalisierung und Demokratie

Summer term 2020

• MA - Seminar 28841: Netzpolitik

Winter term 2019/20

• MA - Seminar 28812: Theorien des Digitalen: Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik

Summer term 2019

• MA - Seminar 28811: Theorien des Digitalen: Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik

Winter term 2018/19

• MA - Seminar 28811: Digitalisierung und Demokratie

Summer term 2018

• MA - Seminar 28810: Technik - Gesellschaft - Kommunikation: Künstliche Intelligenz und die Frage gesellschaftlicher Kontrolle

Winter term 2017/18

• MA - Seminar 28815: Theorie und Empirie der Internetpolitik

Summer term 2017

• Seminar 28861: Big Data: Kritik der algorithmischen Macht

Winter term 16/17

• Seminar 28862: Democracy reloaded: Demokratieverständnisse in der digitalen Gesellschaft

• Governance theory

• Internet governance

• Internet policy

• Transnational regulation

• Empirical copyright law

• Emergence of policy fields

• Digital society

• Science and technology studies

Selected publications

• Hofmann, J. (2022, 05. Juli). Demokratie und Künstliche Intelligenz. Digitales Deutschland. https://digid.jff.de/demokratie-und-ki/

• Hofmann, J. (2022). Digitale Infrastrukturen im Wandel. Bürger & Staat, 72(1-2), 56–62.

• Berg, S., & Hofmann, J. (2021). Digital democracy. Internet Policy Review, 10(4), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.14763/2021.4.1612 

• Hofmann, J., Katzenbach, C., & Gollatz, K. (2017). Between Coordination and Regulation: Finding the Govenance in Internet Governance. New Media & Society, 19(9), 1406–1423. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816639975

• Hofmann, J. (2017). Constellations of trust and distrust in internet governance. In European Commission (ed.): Trust at Risk: Implications for EU Policies and Institutions. Report of the Expert Group "Trust at Risk? Foresight on the Medium-Term Implications for European Research and Innovation Policies (TRUSTFORESIGHT). Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. http://hdl.handle.net/10419/232043

• Hofmann, J. (2016). Open Access. Ein Lackmustest. In T. Dreier, V. Fischer, A. van Raay & I. Spiecker gen. Döhmann (Hrsg.), Informationen der öffentlichen Hand – Zugang und Nutzung. Studien zur Informationsfreiheit, Bd. 3 (S. 511–535). Nomos.

• Hofmann, J. (2016). Multi-stakeholderism in Internet governance: putting a fiction into practice. Journal of Cyber Policy, 1(1), 29–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/23738871.2016.1158303

• Hofmann, J., & Bergemann, B. (2016, October 4th). Die informierte Einwilligung: Ein Datenschutzphantom. Spektrum.de. https://www.spektrum.de/news/informierte-einwilligung-ist-die-wichtigste-rechtlichen-grundlage-fuer-datenverarbeitung-im-internet/1437470 

• Kreutzer, T., Christiansen, P., von Gehlen, D., Hofmann, J., Klimpel, P., Köklü, K., Otto, P., Schindler, M., Wattig, L., & Renner, T. (2016). The Berlin Gedankenexperiment on the restructuring of Copyright Law and Author's Rights: Creators - Exploiters - Non-commercial Users - Intermediaries. JIPITEC - Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law, 7(2), 76–87. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0009-29-4435

• Haunss, S., & Hofmann, J. (2015). Entstehung von Politikfeldern – Bedingungen einer Anomalie. Der moderne Staat - Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management, 8(1), 29–49.