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.

 Defensiones

22.10.2024 09:30
 

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Lisa-Maria Chmarra

08.10.2024 10:00
 

We warmly invite you to the PhD defensio of Hüseyin Kaya Akyüz

 STS Talks Vienna

20.01.2025 17:00
 

We are thrilled to announce Aristotle Tympas' Talk on January 20, 2025 05:00 pm

11.12.2024 16:00
 

We are thrilled to announce Eleanor Armstrong's & Réka Gál's Talk on 11th December 2024, 4:00 pm

 Events

30.09.2024 11:30
 

We have the pleasure to invite you to the habilitation colloquium of Dr. Astrid Mager on Monday, September 30, 2024 at 11:30 at the Institute for...

19.09.2024 10:30
 

We have the pleasure to invite you to the habilitation colloquium of Dr. Karen Kastenhofer on Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 10:30 at the Institute...

 News

19.11.2024
 

We congratulate Astrid Mager and Karen Kastenhofer to their Habilitation and Hüseyin Kaya Akyüz to his PhD!

News
14.11.2024
 

Ulrike Felt, together with Alan Irwin, gathered over 90 authors to write about Science and Technology.

News
18.07.2024
 

The prestigious award for culture and science is endowed with 10,000 Euros with a award ceremony in the town hall on November 27th, 2024

News
09.07.2024
 

The EASST-4S Conference in Amsterdam will be joined by members of the STS Department

News
26.06.2024
 

Julia Engelmayer conducted an interview with Nina Klimburg-Witjes on the question “What visions of the future is our research based on?”.

News
07.06.2024
 

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

News

to the top



 New Publications

Felt U, Öchsner S, Rae R. Citizens in Search for a Place in the Digital Health Data Space: A Case Study. In Pfeifer B, Baumgartner M, editors, dHealth 2022 - Proceedings of the 16th Health Informatics Meets Digital Health Conference. Vol. 293. 2022. p. 127-136. (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics). doi: 10.3233/SHTI220359


Mayer K, Shah EI. Human Sensors. In Sensing In/Security. Mattering Press. 2022. p. 206-215 doi: 10.28938/9781912729050