Jan-Felix Schrape

Jan-Felix Schrape serves as Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Stuttgart, specializing in the Department of Organizational and Innovation Sociology. He has held this position since 2022, following previous academic appointments including Visiting Professor at RWTH Aachen's Chair of Technology and Society (2021-2022) and Acting Chair of Sociology at the University of Hohenheim (2018-2019).

His academic credentials include a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Regensburg (2010), preceded by a Master's degree in sociology, economic and social history, and cognitive science at the University of Freiburg. Prior to his academic career, Schrape gained industry experience as Marketing Manager at two IT companies in Freiburg and Basel from 2006-2010.

Professor Schrape's research focuses on the sociology of innovation, media and technology, with particular expertise in organizational and economic sociology, digitalization research, and sociological theory. His work examines how digital technologies reshape social structures, with emphasis on platform economies, distributed innovation processes, and the sociological implications of artificial intelligence. His publications reveal consistent scholarly productivity through 2025, including the recent book "Technik und Gesellschaft. Eine kurze Einführung" published in Reclam's Universal-Bibliothek series.

His extensive publication record demonstrates evolving research interests with current emphasis on distributed innovation processes, platform architectures, and AI's societal dimensions. Recent works include significant contributions to the "Handbook of Innovation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences" and analyses of Google's AI Overviews impact on information behavior.

Professor Schrape actively participates in academic discourse, having organized the "Treiber der Transition?" ad-hoc group for the 42nd German Sociological Association Congress (2025) and contributing to the "Next Frontiers" future congress at the University of Stuttgart. He teaches courses including "Media Sociology: Media Evolution, Mass Media, Digital Media, and Reality" and "Organization and Innovation: Digitalization, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence" during the Summer semester of 2025.