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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 News & Events

08.03.2022
 

The podcast of PhD candidates in the humanities and the social sciences at the University of Vienna.

18.02.2022
 

Nina Klimburg-Witjes gave an interview about space debris for Tech & Nature (in German). Read it here!

22.01.2022
 

Ulrike Felt has just published her new book (available in German) !

17.12.2021
 

Congratulation to Anna Pillinger, who won the AK-Wissenschaftspreis for her master thesis "Imagining Care Robots at a Dementia Station – Or: Wishing...

06.12.2021
 

Susanne ÖCHSNER

09.12.2021, 12:00-13:30

25.11.2021
 

Strategieentwicklung ist ein Teil von wissenschaftlichem Leitungspersonal geworden. Das Projekt “Follow the Money” geht dieser Entwicklung nach.

 New Publications

Felt U. Making and Taking Time. Work, funding and assessment infrastructures in inter- and transdisciplinary research. In Vienni Baptista B, Thompson Klein J, editors, Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Collaboration across Cultures and Communities. 1. ed. London: Routledge. 2022 doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003129424

Mayer K, Schürz S, Kieslinger B, Schäfer T. Transformation messen und verstehen: partizipative Evaluationsansätze für Citizen Science. In Howaldt J, Kreibich M, Streicher J, Thiem C, editors, Zukunft gestalten mit Sozialen Innovationen: Neue Herausforderungen für Politik, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. 1 ed. Frankfurt: Campus. 2022. p. 207-224