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

17.07.2018
 

Elise Richter fellowship awarded to Katja Mayer

The Department of Science and Technology Studies congratulates alumna and colleague Dr. Katja Mayer on her recently awarded Elise Richter fellowship...

13.03.2018
 

Alexander Degelsegger-Márquez receives the honorary degree "promotio sub auspiciis" from Austrian president Alexander Van der Bellen.

08.02.2018
 

Adipositas als vermeintliche Diagnose ist nicht nur Gegenstand medialer Diskurse und gesellschaftlicher Ausverhandlungsprozesse, sondern auch ideales...

22.01.2018 17:00
 

Welche Relevanz haben Sozialwissenschaften?

Podiumsdiskussion zum Start der Societal Impact-Plattform

Der Ruf nach gesellschaftlicher Relevanz von Forschung ist heute deutlicher zu hören denn...

03.01.2018
 
19.12.2017 13:35
 

Celebrating 30 years of STS at the University of Vienna

For thirty years STS (Science and Technology Studies) has been established at the University of Vienna. On 15 & 16 March 2018 we want to honour this...

 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