Christina Hecht
I am taking a closer look at the connection of digitalisation and social order. For my research I am focusing on using sociology of economy and organisation. My dissertation is focusing on how political, ecnomic and civil actors shape the embedding of plattform companies in a local context. To acchieve this I am comparing fields around Airbnb in Cape Town and Berlin. I am focusing on how actors compete around the spatial and temporal order and who is able to assert themselves. I am mainly using qualitative methods but I do integrate quantitative methods to acchieve mixed-methods designs.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Digitalization and social order
- Sociology of economy and organisation
- qualitative methods
Curriculum Vitae
| since 10/2025 | Scientific staff at FAU Erlangen Nürnberg, Department of Sociology, Chair of transnational labour |
| 05/2022 until 09/2025 03/2023 and 03/2024 | Scientific statt at TU Berlin, collaborative research centre Refiguration of spaces project “Economy of plattforms: Spacial conflicts around Airbnb between worldwide marketing and territial containment” Research in Cape Town |
| 03/2022 | M.A. Social Sciences Humboldt-University Berlin |
| 03/2019 | B.A. Social Sciences Humboldt-University Berlin |
| 01/2017 until 03/2022 | Student Assistant – Weitenbaum Institute of connected societies Berlin – Institute of social sciences Humboldt-University Berlin – Centre of Sciences Berlin of Social Sciences |
Presentations
| 23.09.2025 | „Raum und Zeit als Ankerpunkte für Felder in Transition“ Congress of the German Society of Sociology, Section organisational Sociolgy Duisburg |
05.09.2025 | „The Field around Airbnb in Cape Town. On Spatial and Temporal References“ Conference of the Research Network Economic Sociology (European Sociological Association) Berlin |
| 09.11.2024 | Vortrag auf Einladung: „Sharing and the Cities. Airbnb in Cape Town and Berlin“ Conference of Special Research structural change of possession Jena |
| 27.06.2024 | „Airbnb in Cape Town: Of Imagined Futures and Spatial Relations in a Contested Field“ Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Research Network Digital Economy Limerick |
| 18.04.2024 | „A Welcoming State. The Field around Airbnb in Cape Town“ Confrence section sociology of economy of German Society of Sociology Berlin |
Memberships
since 01.2024 German Society of Sociology
since 05.2025 Section Sociology of Economy and Organisation of German Society of Sociology
Reviewed Journals
Pohl, S., Hecht, C., Kirchner, S. (i. E.): Regulation Ends at the Interface. A Digital Mixed-Methods-Study of Airbnb Market Structures in Berlin and Cape Town. In: Historical Social Research.
Papers in Collections and Journals
Kirchner, S., Ametowobla, D., Hecht, C. (i. E.): Methoden und Daten zur Erforschung spezi-eller Organisationen: Plattformorganisationen. In: Liebig, S., Matiaske, W., Rosenbohm, S. (Hrsg.). Handbuch Empirische Organisationsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer.
Pohl, S., Ducke, E., Hecht, C. (i. E.): Airbnb’s Digital Colonialism in Cape Town. In: Sön-mez, S., Steets, S. (Eds.). Refiguration of Cyberspace. London: Routledge.
Hecht, C. (2025): Superhosts Don’t Cry (About a Room They Would Rather Use Themselves. In: Farías; I., Steets, S., Gansterer, N. (Eds.). Atlas of Spatial Figures. Berlin, Boston: Jovis, S. 46-47.
Hecht, C. (2025): Who’s Hacking the Neighbourhood. In: Farías; I., Steets, S., Gansterer, N. (Eds.). Atlas of Spatial Figures. Berlin, Boston: Jovis, S. 83-84.
Hecht, C. (2025): Torn between Autonomy and Algorithmic Management. (Dis)Obedience of Solo Self Employed Working via Digital Platforms. In: Quadflieg, S., Neuburg, K., Nestler, S. (Eds.). (Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies. Bielefeld: Transkript, S. 172-193.
Further
Hecht, C. (2023): Algorithmic Management und Fitnesstracking. Datafizierte Situationen und Gesellschaftsbilder. In: FIfF Kommunikation 01/2023, S. 65-67.
Hecht, C. (2022): Plattform Kapitalismus. In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsy-chologie 74, S. 553-556. (Rezension zu: Altenried, M., Dück, J, Wallis, M. (Hrsg.): Plattform-kapitalismus und die Krise der sozialen Reproduktion. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 20211