Research Interests:

  • (Feminist) Science and Technology Studies

  • Sociology of work and industrial sociology

  • Sociology of emotions

  • Affects and emotions in technology development

  • Emotion AI

  • (Agile) management and work

Since 09/2023
Research assistant at the Department of Sociological Theory, University of Kassel

07/2022-08/2023
Head/Coordinator of the doctoral program "Vermittlung und Übersetzung im Wandel. Relationale Praktiken der Differenzbearbeitung angesichts neuer Grenzen der Teilhabe an Wissen und Arbeit", Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

02/2022
PhD at the Department of Science, Technology and Society, Technical University of Munich

2015-2018
Research assistant at the Chair of Sociology of Science, Technical University of Munich

2014-2015
MSc in Science, Technology and Society at University College London (UCL)

2013-2014
Academic stay abroad at the Département d'histoire, Université de Montréal, Canada

2010-2014
BA in Culture and Technology with core subject History of Science and Technology (BA) at the Technical University of Berlin

 

Awards and scholarships:

2018-2021
Doctoral scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation

2016-2017
Fellowship "Freies Wissen. Making science open" from the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft and Wikimedia

2014
Prize for Best Contribution to the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London

 

Memberships:

European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)

Center for Emancipatory Technology Research (ZET)

German Sociological Association (DGS)

International Sociological Association (ISA)

Winter term 24/25  
Lecturer: BA Empirical Research Project: Ethnographies of Emotions and Technology, Part 1
Sociology, University of Kassel

Lecturer: MA Affect, Emotion, Power. Theoretical Approaches in the Sociology of Emotions and Affect Studies
Sociology, University of Kassel

Summer term 24  
Lecturer: MA It’s all a Question of (the Right) Technology? Current Debates and Theories on the Relationship between Technology in Society
Sociology, University of Kassel

Lecturer: MA Colloquium in Social Theory and Reading Course
Sociology, University of Kassel

Summer term 23  
Lecturer: MA It’s all a Question of (the Right) Technology? Current Debates and Theories on the Relationship between Technology in Society
Institute for Pedagogy, Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg

Winter term 17/18     
Lecturer: BA & MA Work is half the life? Introductory Course to the Sociology of Work 
School of Governance, TUM    

Summer term 17   
Lecturer: BA It’s all a Matter of Technology? Introductory Course in Sociology of Technology & Science and Technology Studies 
School of Governance, TUM

Summer term 16/17   
Lecturer: BA Core Seminar II: Sociological Theory
School of Education, TUM

Summer term 16  
Lecturer: BA Core Seminar I: Introductory Course to Sociology 
School of Education, TUM

Books

Wenten, Klara-Aylin (forthcoming). The Mechanisms of Agile Management. London: Routledge. [Link]

Dinkelaker, Jörg/Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2024, ed.): Translations and Participation. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, Bielefeld: transcript. [Link]

 

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

Coban, Alev/Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2021): Who Cares for Agile Work? In/Visiblized Work Practices and their Emancipatory Potentials. In: Nanoethics, Vol. 15, pp. 15-70. [Open Access]

Frey, Philipp/Schaupp, Simon/Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2021). Towards Emancipatory Technology Studies. In: Nanoethics, Vol. 15, S. 19-27. [Open Access]

Dickel, Sascha/Schneider, Christoph/Thiem, Carolin/Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2019): Engineering Publics: The Different Modes of Civic Technoscience. In: Science and Technology Studies Journal. The Many Modes of Citizen Science. Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 8-23. [Open Access].

 

Book Chapters

Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2019): Controlling Labor in Makeathons. On the Recuperation of Emancipation in Industrial Labor Processes. In: Meyer, Uli/Seibt, David/Schaupp, Simon (eds.): Emancipation and Domination in Digitalized Industries. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 153-177.

 

Reviews

Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2023): Von der Kraft, die es braucht, Widerstand zu leisten. Rezension zu „Die wunden Punkten von Google, Amazon, Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Was tun gegen die Macht der Konzerne?“ by Nina Scholz. In: Soziopolis. [Link] 

Wenten, Klara-Aylin (2019): Prognostizierst du noch oder simulierst du schon? review about "Die Echtzeitgesellschaft. Wie smarte Technik unser Leben steuert" by Johannes Weyer. In Soziopolis [Link]