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

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...

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...

 New Publications

Saatçi B, Akyüz K, Rintel S, Klokmose CN. (Re)Configuring Hybrid Meetings: Moving from User-Centered Design to Meeting-Centered Design. Computer supported cooperative work : CSCW : an international journal. 2020 Dec;29(6):769–794. Epub 2020 Nov 19. doi: 10.1007/s10606-020-09385-x

Jasanoff S, Metzler I. Borderlands of Life: IVF Embryos and the Law in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. Science, Technology & Human Values. 2020 Nov 1;45(6):1001-1037. Epub 2018 Jan 29. doi: 10.1177/0162243917753990

Hurlbut B, Metzler I, Marelli L, Jasanoff S. Bioconstitutional Imaginaries and the Comparative Politics of Genetic Self-knowledge. Science, Technology & Human Values. 2020 Nov;45(6):1087-1118. Epub 2020 May 18. doi: 10.1177/0162243920921246

Mayer K, Strassnig M. The Digital Humanism Initiative in Vienna: A Report based on our Exploratory Study Commissioned by the City of Vienna. In Fritz J, Tomaschek N, editors, Digitaler Humanismus. 1 ed. Vol. 9. Wien: Waxmann Verlag. 2020 doi: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4250144