Head of the Professorship
Since April 2024, the professorship has been headed by Prof Dr Tanja Carstensen.
Consultation
Please contact Prof Dr Tanja Carstensen by e-mail to make an appointment for a consultation.
Prof. Dr Carstensen is also responsible for advising students on the M. Sc. in Digital Work. Further counselling services of the Institute of Sociology can be found here.
since 2024
Spokeswoman of the Labour and Industrial Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (https://www.arbsoz.de/sektion)
since 2024
Liaison lecturer at the Hans Böckler Foundation (www.boeckler.de)
since 2024
Professor of Sociology with Focus on Work, Economy and Organization, Chemnitz University of Technology, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology
2023
Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada
2020-2024
Postdoc and Coordinator of the Research Network “Care Transformations”, University of Hamburg
2021-2024
Senior Lecturer, LMU Munich (Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology)
2020
Research Assistant, University of Applied Labour Studies, Campus Schwerin
2018
Interim Professor of Sociology, University of Hohenheim
2016–2020
Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, LMU Munich
2013–2015
Research Assistant, Working Group Arbeit-Gender-Technik, Hamburg University of Technology
2013
Lecturer, School of Culture and Society, Leuphana University Lüneburg
2013
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS) Graz, Austria
2003–2012
Research Assistant, Working Group Arbeit-Gender-Technik, Hamburg University of Technology
2002–2003
Research Assistant, University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen
2000–2003
Scholarship, Hans-Böckler-Foundation
Board Member of the Working Group 10 Digital Sociology, International Sociological Association
Trustee of the Hans Böckler Foundation
Member of Editorial Team „Open Gender Journal“ (Open-Access and peer-review Journal for Gender Studies), https://opengenderjournal.de
digital transformation of work (working from home, AI), care work/reproduction/invisible work, discourses on future work and technology, theories of agency, gender studies, qualitative methods
2021–2022: „Gender, Artificial Intelligence and the Work of the Future, University of Hamburg“, Hans-Böckler-Foundation
2018–2020: „Shifting Gender Relations due to Digital Transformation?“, LMU Munich, Hans-Böckler-Foundation
2013–2015: lead „Work 2.0. New Demands on Employees and their Representatives in the Use of Social Media “,Hamburg University of Technology, Hans-Böckler-Foundation
for more publications see german website
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
