Dr. Sebastian Sevignani

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• March - October 2024: Interim professor (W3) for General and Theoreticial Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena’s Institute of Sociology
• July 2022: Akademischer Rat a.Z. (Associate Professor) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena’s Institute of Sociology, division of General and Theoretical Sociology (Prof. Hartmut Rosa)
• June 2022: Principal investigator (together with Dr. Yannick Kalff, Osnabrück) of the DFG funded research network “Emanzipatorische Technikforschung: Verhältnisse zwischen technischem und gesellschaftlichem Wandel” [Emancipatory technology studies: Linkages between social and technological change]
• January 2021: Member of the extended board & elected speaker of Project-Area C in Transregio-SFB 294 on the structural transformation of property, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena & University of Erfurt
• January 2021: Principal investigator (together with Prof. Tilman Reitz) of the DFG funded research project “Geistiges Eigentum: Soziale Einbettung und funktionale Äquivalente” [Intellectual property: Social embeddedness and functional aequivalents], part of an Transregio-SFB on the structural transformation of property, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
  
  
• April 2020-March 2021: Interim professor (W3) for Media Systems and Media Organisation at the Paderborn University’s Department of Media Studies
  
  
• October 2019-March 2020: Interim professor (W3) for Media Economics and Media Management at the Paderborn University’s Department of Media Studies
  
  
• Since 2014: Qualification position/ Postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena’s Institute of Sociology, division of General and Theoretical Sociology (Prof. Hartmut Rosa)
  
  
• 2010-2013: Research associate in the research project “Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society” (SNS3), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [project number: P22445-G17, co-ordination: Prof. Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster, London, UK]; website: www.sns3.uti.at
  
  
• 2010: Lecturer in Media Economics, Department of Communication Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria
  
  
• 2009-2010: Research associate at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria (Media Economics and Media Policy Research Group led by Prof. Manfred Knoche (2009) and Prof. Christian Steininger (2010))
  
  
• 2008-2009: Research assistant at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria (Media Economics and Media Policy Research Group led by Prof. Manfred Knoche)

Lehrveranstaltung Sommersemester 2024

• “Introduction to Sociological Theory”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2024, BA level [in German]
• “The Proletarian Public Sphere: Current Perspectives and Problems”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2024, MA level [in German]

Lehrveranstaltung Wintersemester 23/24

• “Language and Society: Perspectives and Issues in Sritical Theory”,  Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2023/24, MA level [in German]
• “Karl Marx and the Cultural Studies”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2023/24, BA level [in German]

Lehrveranstaltung Sommersemester 2023

• “Cannibal Capitalism”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2023, BA level [bilingual: German & English]

Lehrveranstaltung Wintersemester 22/23

• “The Proletarian Public Sphere? On the Organisation of Experiences in Capitalism”, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, winter term 2022/23, MA level [in German]
• “Marx and Foucault”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2022/23, BA level [in German] 

Lehrveranstaltung Winstersemester 21/22

• “Critical Theories of Digital Capitalism: Labour, Economy, Politics, and Culture”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2021/22, MA level [in German]
• “Subject and Subjectivation: The Problem of Motivation in Social Theory”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2021/22, MA level [in German]

Lehrveranstaltung Sommersemester 2021

• “Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2021, MA level [in German]
• “Critical Theory of the Subject: Social Theory and Theory of Society in Critical Psychology”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2021, BA level [in German]

Vergangene Semester

• “Media Economics I”, Paderborn University, winter term 2020/21, BA level, lecture [in German]
• “Media and Capitalism II”, Paderborn University, winter term 2020/21, BA level [in German]
• “Media and Property”, Paderborn University, winter term 2020/21, BA level [in German]
• “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere”, Paderborn University, winter term 2020/21, MA level, [in German]
  
  
• “Media Economics II”, Paderborn University, summer term 2020, BA level, lecture [in German]
• “Media and Capitalism”, Paderborn University, summer term 2020, BA level [in German]
• “Towards a Cultural Political Economy: Media between Materialism and Semiosis”, Paderborn University, summer term 2020, MA level [in German]
• “Political Economy of Privacy”, Paderborn University, summer term 2020, MA level [in German]
  
  
• “Media Economics I”, Paderborn University, winter term 2019/20, BA level, lecture [in German]
• “Critical Theory and Social Media”, Paderborn University, winter term 2019/20, BA level [in German]
• “Theories and Issues of Digital Capitalism”, Paderborn University, winter term 2019/20, MA level, [in German]
• “Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere 2.0”, Paderborn University, winter term 2019/20, MA level, [in German]
  
  
• “Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi: A Critical Theory of Capitalism”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2019, BA level [bilingual, in German and English]
  
  
• “Class and the Public Sphere”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2018/19, MA level [in German]
• “Karl Marx and the Cultural Studies”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2018/19, BA level [in German]
  
  
• “Critical Media- and Communication-Sociology”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2018, MA level [in German]
• “Karl Marx and Nancy Fraser: For an Expanded Concept of Capitalism”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2018, BA level [in German]
  
  
• “Critical Theory of Social Media”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2017/18, MA level [in German]
• “Critical Theory of the Subject: Social Theory and Theory of Society in Critical Psychology”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2017/18, BA level [in German]
  
  
• “Contradictions of Capitalism”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2017, MA level
  
  
• “Theorising and Researching Needs II” (together with Dr. Jörg Oberthür), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2016/17, BA level [in German]
• “Theories of Digital Capitalism” (together with Dr. Florian Butollo), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2016/17, MA level [in German]
• “The Production of the Unconsciousness: Marx and Freud”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2016/17, BA level [in German]
  
  
• “Needs and Critique”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2016, MA level [in German]
• “Theorising and Researching Needs I” (together with Dr. Jörg Oberthür), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2016, BA level [in German]
• “Marxism-Feminism” (together with Dr. Anja Gregor), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2016, BA level [in German]
  
  
• “Marx and Bourdieu”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2015/16, BA level [in German]
• “Sociological Controversies”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2015/16, BA level [in German]
  
  
• “Species-Being” (together with Peter Schulz), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2015, MA level [in German]
• “Are There False Needs? Problems and Relevance of a Key Concept in Critical Theory” (together with Hartmut Rosa), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2015, BA level [in German]
• “Contradictions of Capitalism”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2015, BA level
  
  
• “Marx and Weber”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2014/15, BA level [in German]
• “Informational capitalism”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, winter term 2014/15, MA level [in German]
  
  
• “Capitalism or Information Society?”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2014, BA level [in German]
• “The Early Frankfurt School and the Theory of Culture Industry”, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, summer term 2014, MA level [in German]
  
  
• “Critical Theory, Education, Media, and Student Movements”, University of Salzburg, summer term 2010, BA level [in German]
• “Culture Industry”, University of Salzburg, summer term 2010, BA level [in German]
  
  
• “Media Concentration”, University of Salzburg, winter term 2009/10, BA level [in German]
• “Ideology and the Media”, University of Salzburg, winter term 2009/10, BA level [in German]
  
  
• “Media Economics”, University of Salzburg, summer term 2009, BA level [in German]

Monographies

• Rosa, Hartmut, Jörg Oberthür, Ulf Bohmann, Joris Gregor, Stephan Lorenz, Peter Schulz, Sebastian Sevignani, und Janos Varga. 2020. Gesellschaftstheorie. München: UVK. [Theory of Society; in German]
  
  
• * Sevignani, Sebastian. 2016. Privacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media. New York: Routledge.
  
  
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2013. The Commodification of Privacy in Informational Capitalism. Dissertation: University of Salzburg.
  
  
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2009. Ideologie, Kulturindustrie und Hegemonie: Reflektionen zu Schlüsselbegriffen einer kritischen Kommuniationswissenschaft [Ideology, Culture Industry, and Hegemony: Reflections on Core Concepts of Critical Communication Studies; in German]. Unpublished Master thesis. University of Salzburg

Journal Articles

• Sevignani, Sebastian, Mandy Tröger, and  Hendrik Theine. 2024. Towards Media Environment Capture: A Theoretical Contribution on the Influence of Big Tech on News Media. International Journal of Communication. Forthcoming.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2024. Communicative Activity: Social and Action Theoretical Foundations for Critical Materialist Media and Communication Sociology in the Digital Age. Critical Sociology. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205241230246
• Fraser, Nancy, Victor Kempf, Sebastian Sevignani, und Martin Seeliger. 2023. Kapitalismus und umkämpfte Öffentlichkeit. Ein Gespräch mit Nancy Fraser. Berliner Journal für Soziologie. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11609-024-00519-2.  [Capitalism and the contested public sphere. A conversation with Nancy Fraser; in German]
• Heiland, Heiner, Martin Seeliger, und Sebastian Sevignani. 2023. The Proletarian Public Sphere Revisited: Conceptual Propositions on the Structural Transformation of Publics in Labour Policy. Philosophy & Social Criticism. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537231206463.
• Kempf, Victor, Sebastian Sevignani, and Nancy Fraser. 2023. Capitalism and Contested Publicity. A Conversation with Nancy Fraser. Philosophy & Social Criticism. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537231203555Externer Link.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2023. ‘Ideology and simultaneously more than mere ideology’: On Habermas’ Reflections and Hypotheses on a Further Structural Transformation of the Political Public Sphere. Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory 30, 1: 84-91.
• Heiland, Heiner, Martin Seeliger and Sebastian Sevignani. 2022. Proletarische Öffentlichkeit revisited. Konzeptionelle und forschungsprogrammatische Überlegungen zum Strukturwandel arbeitspolitischer Öffentlichkeiten. Sonderband Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie 2022, 1-2: 85-111. [The proletarian public sphere revisited: Conceptual and programmatic ideas to the structural transformation of labour political publics; in German]*
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2022. Hegemonic, Populist, or Popular Communication: Structural Ideology and Digital Transformations of the Public Sphere. Theory, Culture & Society 39, 4: 91-109
• Sevignani, Sebastian, Martin Seeliger. 2022. A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? An Introduction to the Special Issue. Theory, Culture & Society 39, 4: 3-16
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2021. Ideologische Öffentlichkeit im digitalen Strukturwandel. Special issue 37 of Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, 43-67. [The Ideological Public Sphere and the Digital Transformation; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2020. Klassenbildung im digitalen Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 335: 220-240. [Class Making in the Digital Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere; in German]
• Sandoval, Marisol and Sebastian Sevignani. 2020. Digital Exploitation: Linking Communication and Labour in Global Capitalism. Global Dialogue 10, 2: 22-24.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2019. The Development of Informational Needs and Prospects of a Need-Based Critique of Digital Capitalism. Annual Review of Critical Psychology 16: 523-543.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2019. Historisch-Materialistische Theorie der Medien und der Kommunikation 2.0. Maske und Kothurn: Internationale Beiträge zur Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft 64 (1/2): 59-88. [Historical-Materialist Theory of Media and Communication 2.0; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2018. Informationelle Selbstbestimmung: Privatheit im digitalen Kapitalismus. Indes: Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft 2018, 2: 40–47.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2017. What Are Informational Needs? Westminster Advanced Studies 10: 3-22.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2017. Privatheit, Entfremdung und die (De-)Kommodifizierung persönlicher Daten. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 30, 2: 170-179. [Privacy, Alienation, and the (De-) Commodification of Personal Data; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2017. Surveillance, Classification, and Social Inequality in Informational Capitalism: The Relevance of Exploitation in the Context of Markets in Information. Historical Social Research 42, 1: 77-102.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2017. Herausforderungen der Debatte um das Digitale Arbeiten für eine Politische Ökonomie der neuen Medien. PROKLA: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaften 47, 1: 43-67. [Challenges from the Digital Labour Debate for a Critical Political Economy of New Media; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2015. Medien im Kapitalismus: Strukturelle und ideologische (Klassen-)Herrschaft in der Perspektive einer kritischen politischen Ökonomie der Kommunikation. In Kurswechsel 2015, 3: 15-24. [Media in Capitalism: Structural and Ideological (Class) Domination in the View of a Critical Political Economy of Communication; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2013. The Commodification of Privacy on the Internet. Science and Public Policy 40(6): 733-739.
• Sevignani, Sebastian and Christian Fuchs. 2013. What Is Digital Labour? What Is Digital Work? What’s Their Difference? And Why Do These Questions Matter for Understanding Social Media? tripleC 11(2): 237-293.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2012. The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora. tripleC 10 (2): 600-617. [special issue ed. by Vincent Mosco and Christian Fuchs]

Edited Volumes & Special Issues

• Theine, Hendrik, and Sebastian Sevignani (eds.). 2024. Media Property and Media Ownership: Current Challenges. Special Issue of European Journal of Communication. Forthcoming.
• Theine, Hendrik, and Sebastian Sevignani (eds.). 2024. Media Property: New Explorations in Media and Communication Studies. Special Section of International Journal of Communication. Forthcoming.
• Brunkhorst, Hauke, Martin Seeliger, and Sebastian Sevignani (eds.). 2023. Transformations of the Public Sphere. Special Issue of Philosophy & Social Criticism. [with contributions amongst other by Nancy Fraser, Douglas Kellner, Michael Zürn] 
• Carstensen, Tanja, Simon Schaupp, and Sebastian Sevignani (eds.). 2023. Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus: Arbeit und Ökonomie, Politik und Subjekt. Berlin: Suhrkamp. [Theories of Digital Capitalism; in German]
• Seeliger, Martin, and Sebastian Sevignani (eds.). 2022. Another Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? Democracy in Times of Globalization, Commodification, and Digitalization. Special Issue of Theory, Culture & Society 39, 4. [with contributions amongst others by Jürgen Habermas, Hartmut Rosa, Judith Butler]
• Seeliger, Martin, and Sebastian Sevignani (eds.). 2021. Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit? Special Issue 37 of Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft. [Another Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?; in German] [with contributions amongst others by Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Hartmut Rosa, Donatella della Porta]
• Sevignani, Sebastian et. al. (eds.) 2020. Online-Kapitalismus. Zur Umwälzung einer Produktions- und Lebensweise. Special Issue of Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 335. [Online Capitalism: On the Revolution of a mode of production and life; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian, and Marlen van den Ecker (eds.). 2020. Media and Communication in Digital Capitalism: Critical Perspectives. Special Section of Global Dialogue: Magazine of the International Sociological Association 10, 2: 20-32.
• Krüger, Uwe, and Sebastian Sevignani (eds.). 2020. Ideologie, Kritik, Öffentlichkeit: Verhandlungen des Netzwerks Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft. Frankfurt am Main: Westend. [Ideology, Critique, and the Public Sphere: Proceedings of the Network Critical Communication Studies]
• Krüger, Uwe, and Sebastian Sevignani (eds.). 2019. Ideologie, Kritik, Öffentlichkeit: Verhandlungen des Netzwerks Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft. Leipzig. [Ideology, Critique, and the Public Sphere: Proceedings of the Network Critical Communication Studies]
• Sevignani, Sebastian, Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval, Jernej Amon Prodnik, and Thomas Allmer (eds.). 2014. Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorizing Digital Labour and Virtual Work: Definitions, Forms, and Transformation. Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12, 2: 464-801.
• Sandoval, Marisol, Sebastian Sevignani, Alexander Rehbogen, Thomas Allmer, Matthias Hager, and Verena Kreilinger (eds.). 2011. Bildung MACHT Gesellschaft. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot. [Education, Power, and Society; in German]

Contributions to Edited Volumes

• Kempf, Victor, Martin Seeliger, and Sebastian Sevignani. 2024. Public Sphere. In Research Handbook on Critical Theory, edited by Doulas Kellner and Rainer Winter, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Forthcoming.
• Sevignani, Sebastian, Simon Schaupp, and Tanja Carstensen. 2023. Einleitung: Basiskategorien und zukünftige Herausforderungen für eine Theorie des digitalen Kapitalismus. In Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus: Arbeit und Ökonomie, Politik und Subjekt, edited by edited by Tanja Carstensen, Simon Schaupp, and Sebastian Sevignani (pp. 9–41). Berlin: Suhrkamp.
• Reitz, Tilman, Sebastian Sevignani, and Marlen van den Ecker. 2023. Zur Dialektik von Öffnung und Schließung – Ökonomie, Recht und Praxis immaterieller Güter. In Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus: Arbeit und Ökonomie, Politik und Subjekt, edited by Tanja Carstensen, Simon Schaupp, and Sebastian Sevignani (pp. 264-284). Berlin: Suhrkamp.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2023. Weitermachen. Weitermachen! Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie der Medien und der Kommunikation als Teil einer kritischen Gesellschaftstheorie. In Eigentum, Medien, Öffentlichkeit. Verhandlungen des Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft, edited by Selma Guney, Juliane Pfeiffer, Laura Porak, Line Hille, and Hendrik Theine (pp. 118-142). Frankfurt am Main: Westend.
• Theine, Hendrik, Mandy Tröger, and Sebastian Sevignani.  2023. Wer beherrscht die Medien? Zur Einfassung des Journalismus durch Technologiekonzerne. In Welche Öffentlichkeit brauchen wir? : Zur Zukunft des Journalismus und demokratischer Medien, edited by Jupp Legrand, Benedikt Linden, and Hans-Jürgen Arlt (pp. 21–34). Berlin: Springer.
• Theine, Hendrik, Mandy Tröger and Sebastian Sevignani. 2022. Wer beherrscht die Medien? Zur Einfassung des Journalismus durch Technologiekonzerne. In: Öffentlichkeit, edited by the Otto-Brenner-Stiftung (pp. 41-64). Frankfurt am Main. [Who dominates the media? How BigTech captures journalism In The public sphere; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2022. Critical Political Economy. In Handbook Media and Communication Economics. A European Perspective, edited by Jan Krone and Tassilo Pellegrini (pp. 1-38). New York: Springer. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-34048-3_3-2
• Sevignani, Sebastian, and Julia Polkowski. 2022. Eine „vergessene Theorie“ gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation? (Bezugspunkt: Historisch-materialistische Gesellschaftswissenschaft). Zur Aktualität Horst Holzers. In Schlüsselwerke der Kommunikationswissenschaft, edited by Christian Rudeloff, Ralf Spiller, and Thomas Döbler (pp. 389-410). Wiesbaden: Springer. [A forgotten theory of communication and society? (Reference point: Historical materialism). On the relevance of Horst Holzer In Key Works in Communication Studies; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian, and Isabelle Busche. 2022. Das Publikum als Ware: Dallas W. Smythe`s: Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism. In Handbuch der Werbeforschung, edited by Tino Meitz, Nils S. Borchers, and Brigitte Naderer (pp. 323-334). Wiesbaden: Springer. [The audience commodity: Dallas W. Smythe`s: Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism In Handbook of Advertising Studies; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2022. Digital Labour and Prosumption under Capitalism. In Marx and the Robots, edited by Florian Butollo and Sabine Nuss (pp. 228-241). London: Pluto. [English translation of “Digitale Arbeit und Prosumption im Kapitalismus“]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2020. Soziale Ungleichheit. In Gesellschaftstheorie, edited by Hartmut Rosa, Jörg Oberthür, Ulf Bohmann, Joris Gregor, Stephan Lorenz, Katrin Scherschel, Sebastian Sevignani, and Peter Schulz (pp. 153-190). München: UTB. [Social Inequality In Theory of Society; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2020. Kritische Politische Ökonomie. In Handbuch Medienökonomie, edited by Jan Krone and Tassilo Pellegrini (pp. 71-98). New York: Springer. [Critical Political Economy In Handbook of Media Economics; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2020. Ideologische Öffentlichkeit: Zur Organisation gesellschaftlicher Erfahrung im Kapitalismus. In Ideologie, Kritik, Öffentlichkeit: Verhandlungen des Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft, edited by Uwe Krüger and Sebastian Sevignani (pp. 21-56). Frankfurt am Main: Westend. [Ideological Public Sphere: On the Organisation of Societal Experiences in Capitalism In Ideology, Critique, the Public Sphere: Proceedings of the Network Critical Communication Studies; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2019. Ideologische Öffentlichkeit: Zur Organisation gesellschaftlicher Erfahrung im Kapitalismus. In Ideologie, Kritik, Öffentlichkeit: Verhandlungen des Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft, edited by Uwe Krüger and Sebastian Sevignani (pp. 12-45). Leipzig. [Ideological Public Sphere: On the Organisation of Societal Experiences in Capitalism In Ideology, Critique, and the Public Sphere: Proceedings of the Network Critical Communication Studies; in German]
• Schulz, Peter, und Sebastian Sevignani. 2019. Kritische Theorie des Lifeloggings als Prüfstein möglicher Gestaltungsperspektiven der Datenökonomie? In Die Zukunft der Datenökonomie: Zwischen Geschäftsmodell, Kollektivgut und Verbraucherschutz, herausgegeben von Carsten Ochs, Michael Friedewald, Thomas Hess, und Jörn Lamla (pp. 309–26). Wiesbaden: Springer. [Critical Theory of Life Logging as an Evaluative Criterion to Regulate the Data Economy? In The Future of the Data Economy: Between Business Models, Common Property, and Consumer Protection]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2019. Digitale Arbeit und Prosumption im Kapitalismus. In Marx und die Roboter: Vernetzte Produktion, künstliche Intelligenz und lebendige Arbeit, edited by Florian Butollo and Sabine Nuss (pp. 293-310). Berlin: Dietz. [Digital Labour and Prosumption in Capitalism In Marx and the Robots: Networked Production, Artificial Intelligence and Living Labour]
• Frey, Philipp and Sebastian Sevignani. 2019. Digitale Produktivkraftentwicklung und bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen. In Digitalisierung? Grundeinkommen!, edited by Werner Rätz, Dagmar Paternoga, and Gernot Reipen (pp. 50–64). Wien: Mandelbaum. [Development of the Digital Productive Forces and Universal Basis Income In Digitalization? Basic Income!] 
• Butollo, Florian and Sebastian Sevignani. 2018. Cyber-Marx? Ansatzpunkte einer historisch-materialistischen Analyse des digitalen Kapitalismus. In Marxismus und Soziologie: Klassenherrschaft, Ideologie und kapitalistische Krisendynamik, edited by Tilman Reitz and Tine Haubner (pp. 252-276). Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. [Cyber-Marx? Approaching Digital Capitalism from a Historical-Materialist Point of View In Marxism and Sociology: Class Domination, Ideology, and Capitalist Dynamics of Crisis]
• Sevignani, Sebastian and Verena Kreilinger. 2018. Online Privacy Paradox and Social Networks. In Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM), edited by Reda Alhajj and Jon Rokne (pp. 1663-1671). New York: Springer.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2017. Bedürfnisentwicklung und Resonanz: Vorbereitende Überlegungen zu einer kritischen Theorie der Bedürfnisse. In Resonanz in der Diskussion, edited by Christian Helge Peters and Peter Schulz (pp. 177-194). [Need Development and Resonance: Prolegomena to a Critical Theory of Needs; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2017. Krise der Privatheit. In Kritische Öffentlichkeiten - Öffentlichkeiten in der Kritik, edited by Kornelia Hahn and Andreas Langenohl (pp. 237–254). Wiesbaden: Springer. [Crisis of Privacy In Critical Publics – Critique of Publics; in German]
• Sevignani, Sebastian and Verena Kreilinger. 2017. Online Privacy Paradox and Social Networks. In Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, edited by Reda Alhajj and Jon Rokne (pp. 1–9). New York, NY: Springer New York.Allmer, Thomas, Jernej Prodnik, and Sebastian Sevignani. 2015. Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective. In Value and Labour in the Digital Age, edited by Eran Fisher and Christian Fuchs (pp. 153-171). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2014. Privacy on the Internet: Commodity vs. Common Good. In Proceedings of the European TA Conference (PACITA) “Technology Assessment and Policy Areas of Great Transitions”, edited by Tomáš Michalek, Lenka Hebáková, Leonhard Hennen, Constanze Scherz, Linda Nierling and Julia Hahn (pp. 359-364). Prague.
• Sevignani, Sebastian and Verena Kreilinger. 2014. Online Privacy Paradox and Social Networks. In Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM), edited by Reda Alhajj and Jon Rokne (pp. 1193-1200). New York: Springer.
• Sevignani, Sebastian, Marisol Sandoval, Thomas Allmer, Verena Kreilinger, Jernej Amon Prodnik, and Robert Prey. 2014. Critical Studies of Contemporary Informational Capitalism: The Perspective of Young Scholars. In Critique, Social Media, and the Information Society, edited by Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval (pp. 76-90). London: Routledge.
• Allmer, Thomas, Christian Fuchs, Verena Kreilinger, and Sebastian Sevignani. 2013. Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society: Critical Perspectives and Empirical Findings. In Media, Surveillance and Identity: A Social Perspective, edited by André Jansson and Miyase Christensen (pp. 49-70). New York: Peter Lang.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2013. Facebook vs. Diaspora: A Critical Study. In Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives, edited by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (pp. 323-337). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2012. Privacy on Social Networking Sites within a Culture of Exchange. In Media, Knowledge, and Education: Cultures and Ethics of Sharing, edited by Wolfgang Sützl, Felix Stalder, Ronald Maier, and Theo Hug (pp 89-104). Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press.
• Sevignani, Sebastian and Marisol Sandoval. 2011. Das Realismusproblem von Gesellschaftskritik in der Mediengesellschaft: Am Beispiel der Studierendenbewegung Unibrennt. In Bildung MACHT Gesellschaft, edited by Marisol Sandoval, Sebastian Sevignani, Alexander Rehbogen, Thomas Allmer, Matthias Hager, and Verena Kreilinger (pp. 229-253). Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot. [The Problem of Realism for Social Criticism in Media Society: The Example of the Student Movement Unibrennt; in German]

Other Publications (Research Papers, Reviews, etc.)

• Van den Ecker, Marlen, Tilman Reitz, Sebastian Sevignani. 2023. Between Openness and Exclusion Property and Profitability in the Information Economy. Working Paper 2 Sonderforschungsbereich/ Transregio 294 »Strukturwandel des Eigentums«. https://sfb294-eigentum.de/de/working-paper/#paper-nr-2.
• Kämpf, Tobias and Sebastian Sevignani. 2021. Introduction and Interview with Christian Fuchs. In Special Issue on Digital Capitalism of Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 335. Forthcoming.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2013. A Review of the Book ‘Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory’, Edited by Trebor Scholz. tripleC (11) 1: 127-135.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2012. Research Design & Data Analysis, Presentation, and Interpretation: Part Three: SNS3 Research Paper No.13. Vienna: Unified Theory of Information Research Group.
• Sevignani, Sebastian, Verena Kreilinger, Thomas Allmer, and Christian Fuchs. 2011. Analysis of Existing Empirical Research Methods for Studying (Online) Privacy and Surveillance: SNS3 Research Paper No.10. Vienna: Unified Theory of Information Research Group.
• Sevignani, Sebastian. 2011. A Contribution to Foundations of a Critical Theory of Privacy: SNS3 Research Paper No.7. Vienna: Unified Theory of Information Research Group.

• European Sociological Association (ESA)
  
  
• German Sociological Association (DGS)
  
  
• German Communication Association (DGPuK)
  
  
• The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS), https://gsis.at / Unified Theory of Information Research Group (UTI), www.uti.at
  
  
• The ICTs and Society Research Network, http://www.icts-and-society.net
  
  
• Network Critical Communication Studies, https://kritischekommunikationswissenschaft.wordpress.com
  
  
• Network Media Structures, https://medienstrukturen.net
  
  
• Institut für Protest- und Medienforschung (ipb), Berlin, https://protestinstitut.eu/
  
  
• Zentrum für Emanzipatorische Technikforschung (ZET), https://emancipatory.technology/

(Medien-)Eigentum im digitalen Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit

Das Projekt untersucht den Wandel des Eigentums im Hinblick auf seine Implikationen für einen Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit anhand von zwei Teilstudien. In einer Literaturstudie mit theoriegenerierender Absicht wird die Rolle des Eigentums für den Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit und unterschiedlichen Konzeptionen von Öffentlichkeit herausarbeitet. Diese Überlegungen konkretisierend und eingrenzend, werden in einer empirischen Studie zur Transformation des Medieneigentums die Auswirkungen von Strategien global agierender Digitalunternehmen auf unterschiedliche Mediensysteme sichtbar gemacht.

Link: JRT06: (Medien-)Eigentum im digitalen Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit | SFB 294 Strukturwandel des EigentumsExterner Link

Habilitationsprojekt: Arbeit und Kommunikation im digitalen Kapitalismus

In der Sozialtheorie wird häufig strikt zwischen Arbeit und Kommunikation unterschieden. Eine solche strikte Trennung wurde insbesondere prominent von Jürgen Habermas vertreten, die sozialphilosophisch auf Aristoteles und Hanna Arendt zurückgeht. Demgegenüber wird vorgeschlagen Arbeit und Kommunikation integrativ als Tätigkeit zu verstehen, was mit Rückgriff auf die in der soziologischen Theorie vernachlässigte Tradition der Kultur-Historischen Schule in der Psychologie bzw. Activity Theory möglich ist. Eine solche sozialtheoretische Fundierung erweist sich als nützlich für die Analyse des digitalen Kapitalismus und insbesondere von solchen Phänomenen die als „Prosumption“ (die Produktion von Daten und Information bei der Nutzung digitaler Kommunikationstechnologien) und der „intellektuellen Monopolisierung“ (wo einzelne Akteure die informationellen Tätigkeiten der Vielen orchestrieren und in profitable Geschäftsmodelle einbauen).