Dr. Alica Repenning


Postdoc Human Geography

I Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Str. 17a

I Raum 324

I +49 (0) 3834 420 4510

I alica.repenninguni-greifswaldde

I Office Hours: appointment via e-Mail


Research Topics

  • Platform Economy
  • Sustainability Transformations
  • Time-Space Perspectives
  • Digital Geographies
  • Feminist Geographies

Academic Education

since 10_2023 Post-Doc at Humangeography, Greifswald University
03_2020 – 08_2023 PhD Candidate, Humboldt University Berlin
02_2019 – 10_2023 Research Associate, Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS)
09_2016 – 12_2018 M.Sc. Copenhagen University "Geography and Geoinformatics: Transformation of Cities and Landscapes"
09_2015 – 02_2016 Loughborough University, UK (Erasmus Exchange Semester)
09_12 – 09_2016 B.Sc. Heidelberg University, Geography

Publikationen

Selected Publications

Papers in Scientific Journals

Repenning & Hardaker (2024), The Platform Fix: Analyzing Mechanisms and Contradictions of How Digital Platforms Tackle Pending Urban-Economic Challenges. Journal of Economic Geographyhttps://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbae015 

 

Repenning (2024), Speeding up, Slowing Down, Losing Grip: On Digital Media Metronomes and Timespace Friction in the Platformised Temporalities of Fashion Design. EPA: Economy and Space 0(0), online first. (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X241231691)

 

Repenning & Oechslen (2023), Creative Digipreneurs: Artistic Entrepreneurial Practices in Platform-mediated Space, Digital Geography and Society 4 100058. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2023.100058)

 

Repenning (2022), Workspaces of Mediation: How Digital Platforms Shape Practices, Spaces and Places of Creative Work, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TSEG) 113(2) 211–224. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tesg.12508)

 

Ibert, Oechslen, Repenning, Schmidt (2022), Platform Ecology: A User‐centric and Relational Conceptualization of Online Platforms, Global Networks 22(3) 564–579. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/glob.12355)

 

Monography 

Repenning (2024), Digital Timespace Friction - The Tempo-spatial Conflicts of Platform Mediation. Dissertation. HU Berlin e-doc (open access). DOI: https://doi.org/10.18452/28369

 

Policy Paper

Ibert, Oechslen, Repenning & Schmidt (2022, Mär 14). Geht regional auch digital? Handlungsansätze zur Gestaltung von regionalen digitalen Plattformen. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. http://hdl.handle.net/10419/251348

 

Podcast

SPACECONOMICS: „Können globale digitale Plattformen den lokalen Einzelhandel wirklich stärken?“ mit Alica Repenning & Sina Hardaker“. Uni Jena, Host Björn Bjarne Braunschweig. https://mehrblogs.uni-jena.de/mehrblogs/spaceconomics/ (oder auf allen gängigen Podcast-Plattformen)


Conference Paper Presentations

Selected Conference Presentations

City, Code, and Creativity. Rethinking Economic Timespaces. Cities and Landscape Seminar. Invited presentation by the research group "Transformation of Cities and Landscapes". Institute for Geography and Geology. Copenhagen University. (November 2024).

Visitor at the Center for Time and Organisation. Copenhagen Business School.

Herzum, J., Repenning, A. (2024): Space-making Practices for Navigating Paradoxes – Spacing, Juxtaposing, and Meaning-making in the Context of a Digital Social Innovation. In: Academy of Management Proceedings. Organization and Management Theory Division, 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Chicago. 

Oechslen, A., Mao, Y. & Repenning, A. (2024): Assembling Digital Workplaces: Conducting Digital Ethnographies of Coworking, Gig Working, and Creative Entrepreneurship., 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024 European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS). Milan.

Affect, Autonomy, and Algorithmic Acceleration: The Rollercoaster of Emotion and Action in Digital Social Innovation on Instagram I IRGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023, London (DAAD-Stipendium Konferenzreisen)

Eine nutzungszentrierte und relationale Perspektive auf wirtschaftliche Interaktionen im on/offline Raum I 16. Rauischholzhausener Symposium zur Wirtschaftsgeographie | 2023

The Imperfection of Organizing In-between On/offline Timespaces I 38th European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium | 2022, WU Vienna

Creative Entrepreneurial Work Practices and Digital Platforms 6th Geography of Innovation Conference (GEOINNO2022) | 2022, Bucconi University Milan

Mediated Workspaces I 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG) | 2022, University of Dublin

Work practices of entrepreneuring in a platform-mediated environment, 37th European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium with Co-author: Anna Oechslen | 2021

Studying Everyday Practices in on/offline Workplaces (with Anna Oechslen), Jahrestreffen des AK Labour Geography I 2021

Räumliche Einbettung von Plattform Ökologien, NKG XVII: Technocultures & Technoscapes | 2020, University of Bonn

Teaching

Summer-Term

I Lecture Digital Geographies (Vorlesung Spezielle Themen der Humangeographie)

I Seminar in Human Geography

Winter-Term

I Seminar: Empirical Spatial Research

I Tutorial: Qualitative Spatial Research Methods


 

I Member in the DFG-Network: “A Temporal Perspective on Disruptive Innovation Processes

I Doctoral Researcher and Postdoctoral Researcher Representative Geography (2024-2027)

I Speaker Working Group Labour Geography 2023