Christian Stegbauer Ph.D.

Christian Stegbauer, Ph.D., has held professorships at the universities of Jena, Siegen and Frankfurt, and the author of Super Weak Ties: What Culturally Holds Our Society Together. He is founding editor of the journal kommunikation@gesellschaft - Journal für alte und neue Medien aus soziologischer, kulturanthropologischer und kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Perspektive. He has been working at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main since 2013 as a professor teaching sociology and network research.

He is one of the founders of the "Network Research" working group and the "Sociological Network Research" section of the German Sociological Association. He was the spokesperson for this section. He is a co-founder of the German Society for Network Research and has been its chairperson since 2018.