Publications

For more publications see the German website.

Carstensen, Tanja (2026): Social Media: Between Self-Representation and Invisibility, Empowerment and Sexism, in: Dorer, Johann/Geiger, Brigitte/Hipfl, Brigitte/Ratković, Viktorija (Eds.): Handbook of Media and Gender, Palgrave Macmillan, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-45789-1_27 

Rippl, Susanne/Bohmann, Ulf/Carstensen, Tanja (2026): United and divided? Sociological findings on the state and future of German unity from the perspective of young people, in: Bergelt, Sven/Jaschnow, Juliane/Daniels, Dieter (ed.): ununited/united, Leipzig: 171-178

Hertwig, M., & Thünken, O. (2024). Struggles for co-determination: Anti-unionism, obstruction of works councils and employees’ counterstrategies in Germany. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X241287377

Carstensen, Tanja; Ganz, Kathrin (2023): Gendered AI: German news media discourse on the future of work. In: AI & Society. Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication, online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01747-5

Abendroth, Anja-Kristin; Lott, Yvonne; Hipp, Lena; Müller, Dana; Sauermann, Armin; Carstensen, Tanja (2022): Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Gender- and Parental-Status-Specific Differences in Working From Home? Panel Evidence from Germany. In: Gender, Work & Organization, 1-21, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gwao.12836

Carstensen, Tanja (2016): Negotiating the digitization of work. New challenges for employees and workers’ councils from the use of social collaboration platforms, paper presented at AoIR 2016: The 17th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, Berlin, Germany: AoIR. https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/8743

Carstensen, Tanja (2016): „We Cannot Not Be on Facebook”: Individual Practices Between Web 2.0 and a Changing Working World. In: Arno Bammé, Thomas Berger, Günter Getzinger (eds.): Yearbook 2014 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, München: Profil Verlag, 15-29.

Carstensen, Tanja (2015): The Internet as Material Object in Social Practices. Recording and Analysis of Human-Internet-Interactions. In: Nature and Culture, Vol. 10, No. 3, Special Symposium “Material objects as a challenge to empirical research”, 284-302, https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/nature-and-culture/10/3/nc100303.xml

Carstensen, Tanja (2013): Gender and social media: sexism, empowerment, or the irrelevance of gender? In: Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa Mclaughlin (eds.): The Routledge Companion of Media & Gender, London: Routledge, 483-492, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203066911-49/gender-social-media-tanja-carstensen

Carstensen, Tanja (2013): Gendered FabLabs? In: Julia Walter-Herrmann, Corinne Büching (eds.): FabLab. Of Machines, Makers and Inventors, Bielefeld: transcript, 53-63, https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-2382-6/fablab/

Carstensen, Tanja (2012): Struggling for Feminist Design: The Role of Users in Producing and Constructing Web 2.0 Media. In: Elke Zobl, Ricarda Drüeke (eds.): Feminist Media. Participatory Spaces, Networks and Cultural Citizenship, Bielefeld: transcript, 170-180, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/transcript.9783839421574.170/html?lang=en

Carstensen, Tanja (2009): Gender Trouble in Web 2.0: Gender Relations in Social Network Sites, Wikis and Weblogs. In: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, Vol. 1, No. 1, 106-127, https://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/18

Carstensen, Tanja; Winker, Gabriele (2007): E-Empowerment of heterogeneous feminist networks. In: Isabel Zorn, Susanne Maaß, Els Rommes, Carola Schirmer, Heidi Schelhowe (eds.): Gender Designs IT. Construction and Deconstruction of Information Society Technology, Wiesbaden: VS, 109-120, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-531-90295-1_7.pdf

Carstensen, Tanja; Winker, Gabriele (2006): E-Empowerment through Strengthening Women's Policy Issues via the Internet. In: Trauth, Eileen M. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, Hershey/London/Melbourne/Singapore: Idea Group Publishing, 235-241, https://www.irma-international.org/chapter/empowerment-through-strengthening-women-policy/12742/

Carstensen, Tanja; Winker, Gabriele (2005): A Tool but not a Medium – Practical Use of the Internet in the Women's Movement. In: J. Archibald, J. Emms, F. Grundy, J. Payne, E. Turner (eds.): The Gender Politics of ICT, Middlesex University Press, 2005, 149-162.

Carstensen, Tanja; Issa-Beuster, Sabine; Melzer, Liane (2002): Times of the City – The Use of ICT's in Timesaving. In: Christiane Floyd, Govind Kelkar, Silvie Klein-Franke, Cheris Kramarae, Cirilia Limpangog,  (eds.): Feminist Challenges in the Information Age. Information as a Social Ressource, Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 301-310, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-322-94954-7_22