Prof. Susann Wagenknecht, PhD

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Table of contents

    1. CV
    2. Research projects
    3. Publications
    4. Presentations (since 2015)
    5. Conferences, Workshops, Panels
    6. Editorshipt and Reviewing

CV

since November 2025 Susann Wagenknecht holds the Professorship in Micro-Sociology and technosocial interaction at the Institute of Sociology of Technische Universität Dresden.
November 2019-October 2025 Susann Wagenknecht held the Junior Professorship in Micro-Sociology and techno-social interaction at the Institute of Sociology of Technische Universität Dresden.
2015-2019 She held a position as post-doctoral research associate at the Department for Social Sciences at the University of Siegen, where she worked with Prof. Jörg Potthast. From February to March 2018, she visited the DEMAND Centre at Lancaster University.
2010-2014 Susann Wagenknecht obtained her dissertation (title: A Social Epistemology of Research Groups) from Aarhus University, Denmark, where she worked with Prof. Hanne Andersen at the Centre for Science Studies
2003-2010

Susann completed her BA in Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder, 2003-2008) and obtained her MA in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science from Bielefeld University (2008-2010). As a student, Susann visited Warsaw University and EHESS, Paris.

Research projects

  • Cluster of Excellence "Responsible Electronics in the Climate-Change Era" (speaker: Prof. Dr. Yana Vaynzof), principlal investigator

  • "Infrastrukturelle Disuption? Energiewende und Wasserstoffversorgung in soziologischer Perspektive (InDis)", project lead

  • "Disruptions of networked privacy (DIPCY)", project lead

For more information on project duration and funding see here.

Publications

28 Entries

2018

2017

2016

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Presentations (since 2015)

"Subjective safety, objective safety" / presentation at the Workshop „Mobility, Affect, and Cooperative Media,” CRC Medien der Kooperation, Siegen, Dezember 5, 2025

"Diffracting critique, absorbing critique. Green and sustainable chemistry" /presentation at sts-hub 2025, Berlin, March 13, 2025

"Circulate (and leak)" / keynote at sts-hub 2023, Aachen, March 16, 2023

“Das smart home unter Beobachtung – vernetzte Privatheit und ihre Störung“ (The smart home under surveillance—networked privacy and its disruption)
presentation at the first TUDiSC conference, TU Dresden, March 31-April 1, 2022

„Re-forming plastic recycling, scaling post-industrial activism” / presentation at the international conference The un/making of forms (co-organized with Ingmar Lippert and Ann-Kristin Kühnen), TU Dresden, September 2/3, 2021

"Zur Normativität von Praktiken - Implikationen & Perspektiven" / Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Kerstin Rabenstein, professor at Arbeitsbereich Schulpädagogik/Empirische Unterrichtsforschung und Schulentwicklung, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, June 17, 2021

“Disruptions of networked privacy” / presentation at Conversations on the Social Embeddedness of Digital Technologies (organized by Susanne Boll and Jannika Mattes) / Research Training Group SEAS, Universität Oldenburg, April 20, 2021 

„Digitalisierung als In-/Formalisierung“ / presentation with Ingmar Lippert at the session of the section Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung: Wissenschafts- und Techniksoziologie in der digitalisierten Gesellschaft: Theorien, Methoden, Perspektiven (organized by Martina Franzen, Petra Lucht, Jan-Felix Schrape and Cornelius Schubert) / autumn conference of the DGS section for Science and Technology Studies in co-operation with KWI Essen, December 10/11, 2020 

"E/valuations here/elsewhere: re-assembling worth in the coal phase-out" / paper at the panel Fossil Legacies – Re-Assembling Work, Gender and Technology in the Coal Phase Out (organized by Jeremias Herburg and Thomas Turnbull) / 4S/EASST, Prag, August 18-21, 2020

"Überlegungen zur Topologie des Lausitzer Kohleausstiegs" (Thoughts on the topology of fossil fuel phase out in Lusatia) / presentation at the panel Ländliche Räume im Spannungsfeld – wovon eigentlich? Neuere Forschungen zu territorialen Ungleichheiten jenseits der Stadt-Land-Dichotomie (organized by Annett Steinführer and Lutz Laschewski) / biannual meeting of the German Sociological Association (DGS, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie), Berlin, September 14-25, 2020

"The many worths of water: Exercises in Data/Politics" / Workshop at MachineRoom@RustLab, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, June 18, 2020

“Komplizenschaft in Zwischenräumen” (Complicity in interspaces) / presentation at Quo vadis feminist STS?, interdisciplinary workshop (organized by Sahra Dornick, Mike Laufenberg, and Petra Lucht) at TU Berlin, Germany, June 13/14, 2019

“Gesellschaft als Lebensform” (Society als form of life) / presentation at Sozialwissenschaften – mit oder ohne ‚Gesellschaft‘?, interdisciplinary workshop (organized by Heike Delitz, Julian Müller, and Hilmar Schäfer) at LMU München, Germany, May 24/25, 2019

“The weave of rules—the materiality, relationality, and interconnectedness of rules in practice” / piece of thought presented at Connecting Practices at Centre for Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand (DEMAND), Lancaster University, UK, April 15/16, 2019

"Traffic lights—tempo-normative orderings in infrastructure maintenance" / presentation at “On Time—Temporal and Moral Orderings of Mobility”, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany, September 13, 2018

"Accommodating algorithms: Rules, regularities, and infrastructural power in municipal traffic management" / Centre for Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand (DEMAND), Lancaster University, UK, February 21, 2018

"Soziologische Normativität -- Soziologische Theorien der Normativität und deren normative Implikationen" / presentation at a workshop organized by Arbeitskreise Normen und Normativität of the section Soziologische Theorie of the German Sociological Association (DGS, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie), Fulda, July 14-15, 2017 

"Friction in Arenas of Repair" / presentation at 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'17), Portland, Oregon, USA, February 25 – March 1, 2017 

"The morality of stop and go---rule enactment in traffic signaling" / presentation at the symposium Philosophy of Technology and Technological Mediation, University of Twente, November 17, 2016 

"Infrastrukturelle Öffnung am Beispiel von Mobilfunk-Hacking" / presentation at the biennual conference of the German Sociological Association (DGS, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie), Bamberg, September 26 to 30, 2016 

"Der temporär verdichtete Wechsel von offen/geschlossen als stadt-infrastrukturelle Leistung" / presentation at the biennual conference of the German Sociological Association (DGS, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie), Bamberg, September 26 to 30, 2016  

"Hacking, industry, and their struggles over mobile phone infrastructure" / presentation at the 4S/EASST conference in Barcelona, August 31 to September 3, 2016 

"Hacking as transgressive infrastructuring" / presentation at Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW'16), San Francisco, February 27 to March 2, 2016

"Casing als Prozess: Wie sich im Forschungsverlauf verändert, was ein Fall ist, kann und soll" (Casing as process) / presentation at Von Fall zu Fall. Zur Bedeutung des Falls in der qualitativen Sozialforschung (From case to case. The meaning of cases in qualitative research), conference of the section Methoden der qualitativen Sozialforschung at the German Sociological Association (DGS, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie), Berlin, March 18/19, 2016 

"Craft, leisure, and end-user innovation---how hacking is perceived in the social sciences" / presentation at Chaos Communications Congress (32C3), Hamburg, December 29, 2015

Conferences, Workshops, Panels

Workshop and Conference Organization at TU Dresden

see: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iso/technosozial/die-professur/Veranstaltungen

Workshops and Panels elsewhere

"Un/intended in/consequence in energy transition" / open panel at 4S 2025 Reverberations, co-organized with Kristiane Fehrs, Seattle, Sep 4, 2025

Short description: Focused on un/intended in/consequence, the panel studies how many things happen in the realm of energy provision and so little at the same time. With energy transition as our case, we examine how actions both manage and fail to take effect, seek change and forestall it, and entail outcomes that are intended as well as unintended.

“How to publish your qualitative data in an English-language journal as a non-native speaker” / doctoral workshop at the Tübingen Summer School Writing Qualitative Research, University of Tübingen, August 1-2, 2022

“Conspiracy, coterie, contagion and other not-so-good relations” / panel at 4S conference Good Relations. Practices and Methods in Unequal and Uncertain Worlds in Toronto, October 6, 2021

„The un/making of forms. Formographic inquiries into practice, accountability, and infra-critique” / International conference co-organized with Ingmar Lippert and Ann-Kristin Kühnen, TU Dresden, September 2/3, 2021 

"Casings - connecting ideas and materials throughout the research process" / doctoral workshop at Munic Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), TU München, November 25, 2020 

"Ordering Mobilities -- Zur Planung, Steuerung und Unterhaltung von Mobilitäten in interdisziplinärer Perspektive" / interdisciplinary workshop, co-organized with Thomas Klinger, at the Deutschen Kongress für Geographie 2019, Kiel, Germany, September 25-30, 2019

"On Time---Temporal and normative ordering of mobilities" / workshop co-organized with Claudio Coletta, Jörg Potthast and Tobias Röhl, Siegen, September 13-14, 2018 

"Caring, Negotiating and Tinkering for IT In/Security" / panel co-organized with Laura Kocksch, Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, Andreas Poller, Estrid Sørensen at EASST2018, Lancaster, UK, July 25-28, 2018 

"The Practice Turn in IT Security—Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Making of IT Security" / workshop co-organized with Laura Kocksch, Matthias Korn and Andreas Poller, Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Bochum, July 20-21, 2017 

"Theory transfers? Social theory and CSCW research" / workshop co-organized with Ingrid Erickson, Carsten Østerlund, Melissa Mazmanian, Pernille Bjørn at Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'17), Portland, Oregon, USA, February 25, 2017 

"Algorithms at Work" / workshop co-organized with Ming Kyung Lee, Caitlin Lustig, Jacki O'Neill und Himanshu Zade at Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW'16), San Francisco, February 28, 2016

"Empirical philosophy of science: qualitative methods" / International conference co-organized with Hanne Andersen, Sandbjerg, Denmark, 21-23 March 2012

Editorshipt and Reviewing

Associate Editor (Engaging Science and Technology Studies (ESTS))

Journals: Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie, American Sociological Review, New Media and Society, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science,  AI & Society etc.

Conferences: Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’16, CHI’17), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW’18)

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