Research Interests:

  • (Feminist) Science and Technology Studies
  • Sociology of work and industry
  • Sociology of emotions
  • Affects and emotions in the development of technology
  • Work management and digitalization

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
Study of Science, Technology and Society (MSc) at University College London

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

2010-2014
Study of Culture and Technology with core subject History of Science and Technology (B.A.) 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)

SoSe 2023

Is it all a question of the right technology? Current debates and theories on the relationship between technology and society

Institute of Education, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

WiSe 2017/18

Work is half of life?! Introduction to the sociology of work

School of Governance, TU Munich

SoSe 2017

Is it all a question of the right technology? Introduction to the sociology of technology & science and technology studies

School of Governance, TU Munich

WiSe 2016/17

Basic course II: Sociological theories

School of Education, TU Munich

SoSe 2016

Basic course I: Introduction to sociology

School of Education, TU Munich

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].

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].

 

Articles in edited volumes

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.

 

Editorships

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

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

 

Monographs

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

 

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]