Anna Katharina Korn

Since August 2025, Anna Katharina Korn has been a research assistant in the project "State and non-state universities as providers of hybrid study formats in the health and nursing professions" under the direction of Prof. Dr. Bettina Langfeldt.

Anna Katharina studied sociology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and completed her Master's degree in sociology and social research at Philipps University Marburg - both with a focus on the sociology of work.

In addition to her ongoing doctorate, she worked at the Chair of Sociology of Digital Transformation under Prof. Dr. Markus Hertwig at the Ruhr University Bochum. There she was involved in projects related to platform work and the digitalization of work in the public sector. In addition, Anna Katharina Korn was active in teaching both in the social sciences and in the Master's programme in Organizational Management.

One focus of her research is on care relationships; in her doctoral project, she is looking at care work in the gig economy and examining how platform-based working models are changing paid care work and employment relationships in this sector.

Publications

Korn, A. (2025): „Informal Home Care in the Digital Transformation: Platform Design and Work Ethics of Care“, In: Social Sciences 13.12.

Hertwig, H., Korn, A., Witzak, P. (2025): „Arbeit, Ungleichheit und soziale Integration in der Plattformwirtschaft Eine vergleichende Analyse von Remote Crowdwork auf Amazon Mechanical Turk und Upwork in Deutschland, Indien und den USA“ In: SDT Discussion Papers. 

Korn, A. (2024): „Plattformvermittelte Care-Arbeit – Entstehung eines kollektiven Problembewusstseins?“. In: Tagungsband GfA Frühjahrskongress.

Lenzner, M.; Westerheide, J. E.; Hertwig, M.; Korn, A. (2023): „Normierungslücken in der hybriden Arbeit: Postpandemische Arbeitszeitkulturen und die Repersonalisierung von Kontrolle am Beispiel der öffentlichen Verwaltung“. In: Arbeits- und Industriessoziologische Studien, 16 (2), S. 58–73. DOI: 10.21241/ssoar.91253.

Demir, N.; Funder, M.; Korn, A. (2019): „Diversity: (k)ein Thema der betrieblichen Interessenvertretung?“. In: MITteilung.