Dr. Thilo Hagendorff is a media scientist at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences at the University of Tübingen. He is a member of the project "Forum Privatheit" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Hagendorff studied philosophy, cultural studies and German literature in Constance and Tübingen. He earned his doctorate with a sociological work on the subject of "social criticism and social governance". In addition, he's an author of several books, including "The End of Information Control".