Short Bio
Falk R. Lüke studied Political Science at the lovely rhineside city of Bonn and later on in Berlin. In the late 1990ies, he began working as a journalist for several magazines and newspapers, websites and as an author of book articles. Due to personal reasons, he came in touch with computers at an early age and went online for the first time about 1996 with an Amiga 1200. When asked to describe himself, he often refers to the term Netizen. He also researched media and blog development in Germany during the past years and set up a user participation strategy for the website of the german language weekly DIE ZEIT, which is not fully implemented yet. Due to the specialised profile, he also stepped into the world of project management: being what others sometimes call «geek» - not meant in a pejorative but more or less marvelling way - he began to work as a translator between the world of people from the offline to the online world of coders and real nerds, which are (sadly enough) often not able to communicate with each other. He learned to love and hate Gantt charts while doing so. Since February 2009 he serves as Policy Officer at the ‘Consumer Rights in the Digital World’ project of the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV). In June he was elected as european co-chair of the policy committee on information society at Transatlantic Consumers Dialogue TACD.
The usage of the internet for political purposes, i. e. by parties and candidates in elections, is one of the fields he was digging quite deep into. He’s also highly interested in european politics and the european neighborhood, terrorism and, last but not least, political theory and the history of thought.
Writing german language blogs for several years now, falklueke.com is a first try of english language blogging.