Technikgeschichte

Mirjam Mayer

Mirjam Mayer

+41 44 632 08 26
mirjam.mayer@history.gess.ethz.ch

Biography

Since 2020 Mirjam Mayer is working as a research assistant at the Chair of History of Technology at ETH Zurich.

In her undergraduate studies, she studied history and German philology in Basel and Paris. She completed her master's degree in „History and Philosophy of Knowledge“ at ETH Zurich with a thesis on the history of recent forest policy. From 2017 to 2020, she worked as a student assistant at the Chair of History of Technology.

Currently Mirjam Mayer works on a dissertation project that focuses on the use and development of personal computers and decentralized networks in the Swiss Federal Administration between 1980 and 1995. There, she asks how decentralization through networking changed hitherto mainly hierarchically organized bureaucratic action and the working reality of state administration.

Publications (Selection)

  • Mirjam Mayer: Process on Display. Navigating through Flashing Light. In: Inge Hinterwaldner, Daniela Hönigsberg, Konstantin Mitrokhov (Hg.): Navigation. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag 2022, 90 – 97.

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Teaching

Das Persönliche und der Computer. Zur Geschichte des PC (mit Ricky Wichum), MA Seminar im FS 2021

Publications

  • (2023) Villa Wiesental. Vom Eingangstor einer Weltstadt zum Zeichen für Partizipation. Hrsg. von Verein Pro Villa Wiesental. St. Gallen: Typotron.
  • (2022) Process on Display. Navigating through Flashing Light, in: Inge Hinterwaldner, Daniela Hönigsberg und Konstantin Mitrokhov: Navigation, Reihe Begriffe des digitalen Bildes. München: Open Publishing LMU, S. 90-97.

Presentations

Mirjam Mayer