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

Mora-Gámez F, Papadopolous D, Sánchez Aldana E. Affecting Infrastructures: Crafting and Weaving as Alternative Repairs. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 2023 Nov 5;9(2):1-28. doi: https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i2.39206

Pham B-C, Davies S. Policy as infrastructure: Enacting artificial intelligence and making Europe. In Klimburg-Witjes N, Trauttmansdorff P, editors, Technopolitics and the Making of Europe: Infrastructures of Security. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2023. p. 125–140 Epub 2023.

Felt U, Öchsner S, Rae R, Osipova E. Doing co-creation: power and critique in the development of a European health data infrastructure. Journal of Responsible Innovation. 2023 Aug 8;10(1):2235931. doi: 10.1080/23299460.2023.2235931

Tzortzatou-Nanopoulou O, Akyüz K, Goisauf M, Kozera Ł, Mežinska S, Th Mayrhofer M et al. Ethical, legal, and social implications in research biobanking: A checklist for navigating complexity. Developing World Bioethics. 2023 Jul 10;1-12. Epub 2023 Jul 10. doi: 10.1111/dewb.12411