Mercedes Bunz (born November 16, 1971) is a German art historian, journalist, and the Professor of Digital Culture and Society at King's College London.

[1] Bunz studied philosophy and art history at the Freie Universität Berlin, after passing her final exams at the Celtis-Gymnasium secondary school in the German town of Schweinfurt in 1991.

Together with Sascha Kösch, Riley Reinhold, and Benjamin Weiss she founded the Berlin music monthly De:Bug in 1997, becoming its co-editor and editor-in-chief from 1999 until 2001.

In that same year she also began working for Berlin city magazine zitty[5] before running the on-line business of the German daily Tagesspiegel.

[11] An updated version of Mercedes Bunz: The Silent Revolution: How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism and Politics without Making Too Much Noise came out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.