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Christiane Funken (2015)

Christiane Funken (* 1953 in Kaldenkirchen ) is a German sociologist and heads the department for communication and media research and gender sociology at the Technical University of Berlin .

Career

Christiane Funken received her doctorate in 1989 from RWTH Aachen University with an empirical study on female crime . In 1991 she followed a call to the University of Freiburg , where she helped to set up the Institute for Computer Science and Society and in 1994, as a deputy to the Directorate, headed Department 1 of the Institute for Computer Science & Society. In 1996 she took on a visiting professorship at the Swiss Federal Technical University of Zurich . The habilitation took place in 1998 at the philosophical faculty of the RWTH Aachen with an interdisciplinary empirical study. From 1998 to 2002 she was a professor ( C 2 active) at the University of Freiburg, as well as she took in 2000 a visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna true, followed by a visiting professor at the Technical University of Berlin . Since 2002 she has been head of the department she has built up with a focus on communication and media as well as gender sociology .

In research and teaching, she represents content on communication, media and media effects research . In doing so, she primarily focuses on issues relating to (media) cooperation / communication / careers in commercial enterprises , as well as diversity in companies and trade unions. In her research on networks, she focuses on innovation and SME networks as well as network management . All research focuses are gender-specific. In addition, she places particular emphasis on practical issues that she can bring into her many years of consulting work.

Funken is a member of several scientific advisory boards and has a. a. Developed transdisciplinary research programs for the Austrian Ministry of Science. She is also a reviewer for the research programs and projects of the DACH countries and for the DFG .

She was an expert on the Federal Government's AUDIT Commission on the e-learning research program and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Total E-Quality Germany eV

Christiane Funken is a co-applicant of the DFG priority program " Mediatized Worlds: Communication in Media and Social Change " (SPP 1505) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board.

She is also the curator of the Royal Prussian Cultural Heritage .

Research priorities

See also

Publications (selection)

  • Diversity and the future of the world of work. In: HR Trends 2019: Strategy, Digitization, Diversity, Demography , 2018.
  • She conomy. Why the working world of the future will be female. C. Bertelsmann, 2016.
  • Dodgy Careers, 2015, Campus ; Generation 35plus, BMBF, Berlin 2013.
  • Mistrust as a resource. In: Organizational Development - Journal for Corporate Development & Change Management, 01/2012, 41–45; with S. Hörlin.
  • Mistrust in SME networks . In: Schilcher, Markus; Will- Zocholl, Mascha: Trust and Cooperation in the Working World, 2012, with J. Thoma.
  • The project actors: career as a staging. VS-Verlag, 2011; with Stoll, A. & Hörlin, S.
  • Structures and rules of the game in modern companies - are the cards being shuffled for women? In: BMBF, Women's careers in companies - research results and options for action, 2011, pp. 63–70; with A. Boes., A. Stoll.
  • Money instead of power? Female and Male Careers in Sales - An Organizational Sociology Study. Campus, 2004.
  • Hackers . In: Moebius, Stephan / Schroer, Markus (Ed.): Divas, Hackers, Speculators . Suhrkamp, ​​2010. pp. 190-205.
  • Communication & media. In: Baur, Korte, Löw, Schroer (eds.): Handbuch Soziologie. VS, 2008. pp. 219-236; with L. Ellrich.
  • Digitization of the world of work: To reorganize formal and informal processes in commercial enterprises. VS Verlag, 2008, with Schulz-Schaeffer, I. (ed.).
  • Love communication in data landscapes. In: Fraueneder, H .; Ries, M. (Ed.): Dating 21 , 2007, pp. 67-97, with L. Ellrich
  • The body on the internet. In: Schroer, K. (ed.): Sociology of the body. Suhrkamp, ​​2005, pp. 215-240.
  • Professional communication strategies of women and men. In: Funder, M .; Dörhöfer, S .; Rauch, C. (ed.): Beyond the gender difference? Gender relations in the information and knowledge society . Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2005, pp. 219-232.
  • Female, Male, Neutre, Either. Is there a gender in cyberspace? In: Thiedeke, U. (ed.): Sociology of Cyberspace. Media, structures and semantics . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, pp. 193–214.
  • Self-assurance in virtual space. For the construction of identities on the Internet. In: Kahlert, H .; Kajatin, C. (Ed.): Work and networking in the information age. How new technologies are changing gender relations. Campus Verlag, 2004, pp. 299-314.
  • About the return of the body in electronic communication. In: Krämer, S. (ed.): Performativity and Mediality . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2004, pp. 307–322.
  • Digital identities. In: Hepp, A .; Winter, C .: Media identities: Identity constructions in the context of globalization and media culture . By Halem Verlag, 2003, pp. 282-298.
  • Space - time - mediality. Interdisciplinary studies on new communication technologies . Leske & Budrich, 2003; with Löw, M. (ed.).
  • Body online ?! In: Hahn, K. et al. (Ed.): Body representations. UVK, 2002, pp. 261-279.
  • Digital doing gender. In: Stefan Münker, Alexander Roesler (ed.): Praxis Internet . Suhrkamp, ​​2002, pp. 158-181.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Media and gender sociology: Prof. Christiane Funken. In: www.tu-berlin.de. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Spark, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaldenkirchen