Christina Schachtner

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Christina Schachtner (* 1948 ) is a professor of media studies with a focus on digital media.

Life

Christina Schachtner learned the profession of kindergarten teacher, then that of detective. From 1975 to 1980 she studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and obtained a diploma in sociology. She then worked as a research assistant in the DFG project Experiencing and dealing with old age and illness in the context of socio-cultural upheavals and individual biographies at the University of Augsburg under the direction of Peter Atteslander . From 1983 to 1996 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where she received her doctorate in 1987 with the thesis Störfall Alter and in 1991 with the thesis Geistmaschine: Faszination und Provokation am Computer . After a guest professorship for gender studies at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Vienna, she accepted a call to a C4 professorship at the Philipps University of Marburg in 1996 . In 2003/2004, she accepted a call to the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt and became professor for media studies with a focus on digital media.

Christina Schachtner has held a number of visiting professorships and research stays at the University of California in Berkeley and San Francisco / USA, at the University of Western Sydney / Australia, at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos in São Leopoldo / Brazil, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / USA, at Goldsmiths, University of London / Great Britain, at Shanghai International Studies University / China, at the University of Jyväskyla / Finland, at the University of Halmstad / Sweden and at the University of Warsaw / Poland.

research

In her dissertation with the title Störfall Alter, Für ein Recht zu Eigen-Sinn , Christina Schachtner dealt with the fragility and finiteness of human life in the context of a culture of " instrumental reason " (M. Horkheimer). With this perspective on old age, she built a theoretical bridge to the technical world, which, beginning with her habilitation, became the focus of her research. As part of her habilitation project, she interviewed software developers, programmers and AI researchers of both sexes in university research laboratories and software companies about the way they program and how they shape their relationship to computer technology. She found that the human-machine relationship has an impact beyond one's job and also influences the design of leisure time and social relationships, and even shapes self-concepts. With the development of the Internet and Web 2.0 , these digital technologies also became the subject of her research. From 2002 to 2005 she headed the E-Network project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Science and Research . Communication and community building in virtual women's spaces, in which she cooperated with Gabriele Winker from the TU Hamburg-Harburg, from which the joint book Virtual Spaces - New Public Spaces, Women's Networks on the Internet arose.

In another study, she examined how doctors arrive at their diagnoses and therapy decisions. She discovered that they follow metaphorical patterns in their thinking and acting , for which the course is set in childhood and which are linked to medical knowledge and decision-making models in medical studies and in medical practice.

In a binational research project of subject constructions and digital culture, which was completed in 2013 and financed by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF) and the VW Foundation and worked on together with the universities of Hamburg-Harburg, Bremen, and Münster, she investigated worldwide a research team digitally supported forms of communication and self-presentation on online platforms and blogs . Questions of transnationality and transculturality as well as the emergence of social movements in the age of the internet were also examined. A study in FabLabs, the new high-tech workshops for everyone, followed. On the basis of interviews with children in Happylab-Vienna and the scientific observation of workshops for children, the relationship between children and things was explored from a cultural-scientific perspective. The results of this work are summarized in the book Children and Things , published in 2014 . She is currently working on the research project "Transnational Lifestyles". To this end, she interviewed people from various European, African and Arab countries who have immigrated to German-speaking countries and have long-term life and work prospects in the country of migration. In particular, the research interests focus on the role of media in shaping transnational life.

The focus of Christina Schachtner's work is on questions about the development of communication, self-design, public and private, perception and knowledge that arise anew in the context of digital media.

Christina Schachtner's scientific work is characterized by transdisciplinarity ; empirically, she works with a combination of methods from the nomothetic and understanding-interpretative spectrum of methods. She developed the diagnostic instrument of visualization, which was already used in psychotherapy, into a research method that contrasts verbal statements. In addition, based on the grounded theory, she created the method of focused network analysis to investigate online discussions.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Schachtner, Ch. (2016): The narrative subject. Storytelling in the age of the internet. , Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Schachtner, Ch. (2005): Architects of the Future, Local Women's Networks in the Context of Globalization. , Munich: Ökom Verlag.
  • Schachtner, Ch. (2002): Discovering and inventing, the computer as a learning medium. , Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
  • Schachtner, Ch. (1999): Medical Practice, The Formative Power of Metaphor. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp.
  • Schachtner, Ch. (1993): Spirit machine, fascination and provocation on the computer. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp.
  • Schachtner, Ch. (1988): Störfall Alter, For a right to self-sense , S. Fischer.

Editorships

  • Schachtner, Ch. (2014): Children and things. Childlike worlds of things between children's rooms and FabLabs. , Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Carstensen, T. / Schachtner, Ch., Schelhowe, H., Beer, R. (2014): Digital Subjects, Practices of Subjectification in the Media Upheaval of the Present. , Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Schachtner, Ch., Höber, A. (2008): Learning Communities, The Internet as a new learning and educational space. , Frankfurt / Main: Campus.
  • Schachtner, Ch. / Winker, G. (2005): Virtual spaces - new publics, women's networks on the Internet. , Frankfurt / New York: Campus.
  • Schachtner, Ch. (1997): Technology and subjectivity, the interrelationship between humans and computers from an interdisciplinary perspective. , Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp.

Articles in books

  • Body Images. People-machine configurations in the context of digital media In: Brodesco, A. / Giordano, F. (eds.): Post-Cinema and digital Culture, Milano / Udine: Mimesis International, pp. 171–190.
  • Children, things and culture. In: Schachtner, Ch. (Ed.): Children and things. , Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 25-62.
  • When the network becomes a place of life, profile features of the network generation. In: Bammé, A. (Ed.): Risk and Decision. , Vienna / Munich: Profile, pp. 109–137.
  • with N. Duller: Internet as a place of communication, digital practices and becoming a subject. In: Carstensen, T., Schachtner, Ch., Schelhowe, H., Beer, R. (Ed.): Digital Subjects. Wiesbaden: transcript, pp. 81-154.
  • The social in the context of digital networks: In the footsteps of Bruno Latour. In: Greif, H., Werner, M. (Ed.): Networking as a social and technical paradigm. Wiesbaden: VS, pp. 79-100.

Articles in magazines

  • Children and things, observations in a FabLab. In: Merz, Zeitschrift für Medienpädagogik, 2014, pp. 60–66.
  • In the web of networks, social and cultural development trends in the current media upheaval. In: Medienjournal, Volume 37, H. 4, 2013, pp. 18–34.
  • New Technologies Require Education to Renew Itself - Novas technologias exigem a renovação da educação (Portuguese translation) . In: Educação Unisinos, Educação Unisinos unisinos, 2013.
  • Digital Media Evoking, Interactive Games in Virtual Space. In: Subjectivity. Vol. 6, 1, 2013, pp. 33-54.
  • I'm online so i am In: Psychology Today. H. 3, 2010, pp. 30-34.
  • Knowledge and gender. Cyberspace as a gender-relevant knowledge space. In: Media & Communication Studies. H. 4, 2009, pp. 500-519.
  • with Roth-Ebner, C .: Constructivist-participative technology development. In: Communication & Society. Volume 10, article 1.
  • Knowledge and Experience, Requirements for Computer-Based Learning Taking a Paper Mill as an Example. In: The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society .

Online publications

  • Schachtner, Ch. (2018): Contemporary Self-Staging in the Age of Digital Media. The struggle for recognition In: Medienimpulse, H.1, http://medienimpulse.at/articles/view/1172
  • Schachtner, Ch. (2018): Children, Things and Culture, Observations in a Fab Lab In: Gail, C./Ticuson, M. (Ed.), Current Issues in Educational Methods and Theory in a Changing World, Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, pp. 131–146, https://www.atiner.gr/books-a/
  • Schachtner, Ch. (2018): Risky Discourses, Arab Network Actors as Producers of Counter-Publicities In: German Society for Sociology (ed.), Closed Societies, http://publikationen.soziologie.de/
  • Schachtner, Ch. (2014): Transculturality in the Internet, Cultural Flows and Virtual Publics In: Current Sociology, Future Technology, pp. 1–16, http://csi.sagepub.com

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personal data
SURNAME Schachtner, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1948