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

07.08.2017
 

Kathrin Gusenbauer on putting society's norms in wax at the Josephinum Museum Vienna

07.08.2017
 

'Science in Society Laboratories'

07.08.2017
 

Critical Policy Studies Early Stage Researcher Prize

won by Erik Aarden

 

12.07.2017
 

TranskribientIn auf Werkvertragsbasis gesucht

Das Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung sucht ab sofort eine/n TranskribientIn auf Werkvertragsbasis für die Verschriftlichung...

27.06.2017
 

Ulrike Felt on 'More work is required to make academic “timescapes” worth inhabiting and to open up space for creative work'

26.01.2017
 

 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