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.
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Fian L, Felt U, Hofmann T, White M, Pahl S. Microplastics in food and drink: Predictors of public risk perceptions and support for plastic-reducing policies based on a climate change framework. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2025 Mar;103(102583). doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102583
Horn C, Felt U. When Digital Health Encounters Regulation: The Approval Process for Prescription Apps in Germany and its Ontological Politics . Science & Technology Studies. 2025 Feb.
Schikowitz A. Self-Managed Housing in Vienna: Managing Ambivalences Between Invitability and Resistance. Social Inclusion. 2025 Jan 16;13. Epub 2024 Dec 16. doi: 10.17645/si.7993
Schikowitz A, Dessewffy E, Davies S, Pham BC, Gregory K, Goldberg E et al. Writing Choreographies: (STS) Knowledge Production in Post- digital Academia. Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies. 2025 Jan;1.
Mora-Gámez F, Schikowitz A, Davies S. Interpretative methods as interventions: revisiting methods as epistemic practices in STS. In Pfadenhauer M, Kusenbach M, editors, Handbook of Interpretive Research Methods.. Elgar. 2025