Dr. Carolin Wiedemann
- Research Associate (Post-Doc) in the Department of Integration,
Social Networks and Cultural Lifestyles
Profile
Carolin Wiedemann is a research associate in the department of Integration, Social Networks
and Cultural Lifestyles at BIM, focusing on complex specialization in cultural and social theory and ethnographic research of digital cultures.
She studied journalism and sociology in Hamburg and Paris, and subsequently completed a Ph.
on new forms of collectivity and subversion under digital conditions, which was funded by the German National Academic Foundation and published by transcript in 2016 ("Kritische Kollektivität im Netz").
She has held teaching positions at various universities on topics including introduction to qualitative social research, feminist theory, the work of Michel Foucault, and the analysis of digital media.
From 2016 to 2020, she was editor of the magazine Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly. As a journalist, she continues to write for the FAZ, analyse&kritik, and Missy Magazine, among others, on questions of critique and emancipation, media, migration and materialist feminism.
She is on the board of the international human rights organization Humanity in Action, part of the network for critical migration research kritnet, and co-editor of the academic journal on digital cultures spheres.
In January 2021, her new book Tender and Free. Vom Sturz des Patriarchats about contemporary antifeminism and the question of overcoming patriarchal conditions will be published by Matthes & Seitz.
Academic Publications
- Wiedemann, Carolin (2019): Zensur! Oder: Wessen Freiheit?, Navigationen Zeitschrift für Medien
und Kulturwissenschaften, Jg. 19, Heft 2: Neue Rechte und Universität, 47-63 - (2016): Kritische Kollektivität im Netz. Facebook, Anonymous und die Kraft der Affizierung in der Kontrollgesellschaft, Bielefeld: transcript
- (2015): Digital Swarming and Affective Infrastructures, in Harks, Tobias/Vehlken, Sebastian (Hg.): Neighborhood Technologies. Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks. Berlin, Zürich: Diaphanes, 195-212
- (2014): Between swarm, network, and multitude. Anonymous and the infrastructures of the common, Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 2014, Vol. 15, No. 3, 309–326
- (2014): „Greetings from the Dark Side of the Internet“ – Anonymous und die Frage nach Widerstand
in Zeiten der Informatisierung, in Carstensen, Tanja/Paulitz, Tanja (Hg.): Subjektivierung 2.0, Machtverhältnisse digitaler Öffentlichkeiten, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie Sonderhefte, Band 13, 143-162 - (2014): Kollektivität ohne Identität. Anonymous, flexible Infrastrukturen und das Ereignis des Gemeinsamen, in: Baxmann, Inge et al. (Hg.): Soziale Medien - Neue Massen. Medienwissenschaftliche Symposien der DFG, Zürich/Berlin: diaphanes
- (2014): In the Ruins of Representation. Affekt, Agencement und das Okkurente, in: Christadler, Maike/Adorf, Sigrid (Hg.): New Politics of Looking, Affekt und Repräsentation, Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und Visuelle Kultur, Nr 55,66–78 (mit Marianne Pieper)
- (2011): Facebook: Das Assessment-Center der alltäglichen Lebensführung, in: Leistert, Oliver/Röhle, Theo (Hg.): Generation Facebook. Über das Leben im Social Net, Bielefeld: transcript, 161-181
- (2011): Open Collectivity, in: Herb, Ulrich (Hg.): Open Initiatives. Offenheit in der digitalen Welt
und Wissenschaft, Universitätsverlag des Saarlandes: Saarbrücken, 205-215. — (Hg.) - (2011): Depletion Design. A Glossary of Network Ecologies, XMLab & INC (mit Soenke Zehle)
- (2010): Selbstvermarktung im Netz. Eine Gouvernementalitätsanalyse der Social Networking Site Facebook, Universaar – Universitätsverlag des Saarlandes
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