Department of Science and Technology Studies

Science, technology and innovation shape life in modern societies in countless ways. Some of these are perceived as positive, others are deeply controversial. In turn, policy, corporations, the media and other societal actors influence how knowledge and technologies are produced. Science and technology studies analyzes these interactions, and aims to foster critical and reflexive debates on the relations of science, technology and society.

 News & Events

19.06.2024 17:00
 

by Brice Laurent (CSI & ANSES, Paris), Eleanor S. Armstrong (Science Education, Stockholm University), Béatrice Cointe (CSI, Paris), Kirstin Asdal...

07.06.2024
 

Starting April 1, 2024, Katja Mayer is an incoming fellowship for one year at the Berlin University Alliance.

29.05.2024
 

The video team of the science magazine Rudolfina met with Nina Klimburg-Witjes to get informations about Europe's role within the new space age.

25.04.2024
 

Der geplante neue Titel des EC lautet: "Wechselwirkungen zwischen Wissenschaft, Technik und Gesellschaft verstehen".

24.04.2024
 

Join the group of University Professor Ulrike Felt as a University assistant (praedoc) in the ERC grant Innovation Residues!

12.04.2024 15:30
 

Nina Klimburg-Witjes will give a talk on "Space debris as a security leftover" at the The Future of Near-Earth Space. Space Debris and Space...

 New Publications

Mayer K, Aibar E. Open Science in Practice - STS approaches to open cultures in research. EASST Review. 2016. doi: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.200180

Felt U. The temporal choreographies of participation: Thinking innovation and society from a time-sensitive perspective. In Chilvers J, Kearnes M, editors, Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics. London/New York: Routledge. 2016. p. 178-198 doi: 10.4324/9780203797693

Boon W, Aarden E, Broerse J. Path creation by public agencies — The case of desirable futures of genomics. Technological Forecasting & Social Change. 2015 Oct;99:67-76. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.06.038

Morstatter F, Pfeffer J, Mayer K, Liu H. Text, topics, and turkers: A consensus measure for statistical topics. In HT 2015 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2015. p. 123-131 doi: 10.1145/2700171.2791028