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

06.04.2022
 

Read here the latest article written by Ulrike Felt and Florentine Frantz.

05.04.2022
 

Read now the new blog post written by Marie Rathmann!

15.03.2022
 

Join us at on Thu 24 Mar at 4pm for a film screening produced by students of the 'Visual Ethnographies of Science' course taught by Sarah Davies.

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) !

 New Publications

Sepehr P, Aarden E. Between straight lines and winding alleys: Streets as boundary objects in the transnational modernization of urban planning in Iran. In De Munck B, Lachmund J, editors, Politics of Urban Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2023. p. 179-200 doi: 10.4324/9781003312628

Mora-Gámez F. Curating Reparation and Recrafting Solidarity. In Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict. Bristol University Press. 2023. p. 258-272

Sepehr P. Post-Automobility Futures: Technology, Power, and Imaginaries. Mobility Humanities. 2023 Jan 31;2(1):164-167. doi: 10.23090/MH.2023.01.2.1.164

Fritzsche M-C, Akyüz K, Abadía MC, McLennan S, Marttinen P, Mayrhofer MT et al. Ethical layering in AI-driven polygenic risk scores—New complexities, new challenges. Frontiers in Genetics. 2023 Jan 26;14:1-11. 1098439. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1098439