Bettina-Johanna Krings

Dr. Bettina-Johanna Krings

  • Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
    Postfach 3640
    76021 Karlsruhe

Current positions

  • Deputy speaker of the Work and technology topic within the “Humans and Technology” focus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Member of the ethics committee of the research group: “Dorfgemeinschaft 2.0 – Das Alter im ländlichen Raum”
  • Coordinator for teaching Technology Assessment at KIT

Fields of work

  • Technological innovations and their impacts on working structures
  • Concepts of the man-machine relation
  • Theory and methods of technology assessment
  • Sociological theories of modernity

Current projects

  • Exploring Mechanisms of “Knowledge Production in Modern Societies” within a Line of International Graduate Summer Schools
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  • Artificial Intelligence for Working and Learning in the Karlsruhe Region (KARL)
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  • Overarching KIT 2025 strategy: Human resources – Subproject 7: Visions of future work
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  • Kopernikus: SynErgie Cluster VI: Augsburg model region – models of organizational development with a view to fluctuating energy supply
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  • NoWa – Norms in the light of demographic change
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  • Work and technology
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  • Interdisciplinary International Graduate Summer School “RRI and Future-Making: Responsibility through Anticipation”
    Event

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Professional background

1991 - 1992 Member of scientific staff in a vocational training program (Advanced Training Programme in Educational Management and Administration for Technical and Vocational Education) at the German Foundation for International Development (DSE) in Mannheim and Berlin
1992 - 1994 Member of scientific staff in a national project for promoting equal opportunities for women in education (Programa Nacional de Promocion de la Igualdad de Oportunidades para la Mujer en el Area Educativa) at the Ministry of Education of Buenos Aires, Argentina
since 1995 Member of scientific staff at ITAS (formerly AFAS); temporarily working at the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag TAB
2009 - 2013 Deputy Head of research area Knowledge society and knowledge policy
2013 - 2019 Co-Head of research area Knowledge society and knowledge policy
2015 PhD thesis on “Strategies of individualization”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Birgit Blättel-Mink and Prof. Dr. Tilla Siegel, Goethe University Frankfurt

2015

Recent publications


2024
Book Chapters
Evers-Wölk, M.; Krings, B.-J.; Weinberger, N.
Erwartbare und erfahrbare Wirkungen partizipativer Technikentwicklung im Gesundheitsbereich
2024. Partizipative Technikentwicklung im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen : Interdisziplinäre Konzepte und Methoden 2024, Hrsg.: S. Kernebeck, F. Fischer., 135–147, Hogrefe AG 
Conference Papers
Krings, B.-J.
New Work als Vision für die Zukunft der Arbeit
2024. Forschung 3 : Technikfolgenabschätzung aus Arbeitnehmer:innenperspektive, 111–132, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Vorarlberg 
2023
Journal Articles
Kopp, T.; Schäfer, A.; Kinkel, S.; Krings, B.-J.; Cuhls, K.
Editorial introduction to the Special Issue: Interactions between humans and social robots put to the test
2023. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 192, Art.-Nr.: 122556. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122556 
Krings, B.-J.
New Work und die Zukunft der Arbeit
2023. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 73 (46), 04–09 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Nierling, L.; Krings, B.-J.; Küstermann, L.
It Freelancers as Knowledge Workers: Shifts in Working Conditions and Work Autonomy in Crowd Work
2023. Journal of Labor and Society, 26, 480–509. doi:10.1163/24714607-bja10113 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Weinberger, N.; Krings, B.-J.; Decker, M.; Wiloth, S.; Eurich, J.
Ein Netzwerk der Sorge flechten - Der Einsatz assistiver Technologien in regionalen Versorgungsnetzwerken für Menschen mit Demenz
2023. Pflege & Gesellschaft, 28 (2), 137–152 
Conference Papers
Alpers, S.; Krings, B.-J.
Ethische, rechtliche und soziale Aspekte (ELSA) der Gestaltung von KI-Systemen und Integration der verschiedenen Akteuren in den Prozess
2023. Nachhaltig Arbeiten und Lernen - Analyse und Gestaltung lernförderlicher und nachhaltiger Arbeitssysteme und Arbeits- und Lernprozesse, GfA-Press Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Reports/Preprints
Alpers, S.; Krings, B.-J.; Schröter, W.; Becker, C.; Brücklmayr, J.; Dreher, A.-K.; Frey, P.; Klöpper, M.; Rill, M.; Take, M.; Vugrincic, A.; Weinreuter, M.
KARL GF5 Leitfaden - Whitepaper zu ethischen, rechtlichen und sozialen Aspekten im Kontext von Künstlicher Intelligenz für Arbeit und Lernen
2023. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000161674 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 

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