Dr. rer. pol. Jenny Darlene Berkholz

Dr. Jenny Hindrichs (née Berkholz) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Information Systems, esp. IT security and data protection. Her research centers on consumption practices and their transformation in digital environments. She is especially interested in questions of collective ownership, digitally mediated practices, and the role of technology in the transformation and emergence of social norms, particularly regarding privacy. 

A key concern of her work is to understand how digitalization not only reflects existing consumption practices but actively opens up new spaces of possibility. As part of the BeDeNUTZ project, she also investigates how digital consumption environments can be designed in a consumer-friendly way, for example by developing new formats for consumer advice. 

She successfully completed her doctoral degree in 2025 with the dissertation titled “Consumer Practices in Transition: Negotiating Social Norms and the Democratization of Digital Consumption.”