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.

 Defensiones

06.06.2025 12:00
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Daphne Lenz

05.06.2025 16:00
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Barry Jenkins

 STS Talks Vienna

17.04.2025 16:00
 

FutureSpace Talk by Darshan Vigneswaran and Enrike van Wingerden

We are thrilled to announce Darshan Vigneswaran and Enrike van Wingerden's Talk on April 17, 2025 04:00 pm

10.04.2025 17:00
 

STS Talk by Bård Lahn

We are thrilled to announce Bård Lahn's Talk on April 10, 2025 5:00 pm

 News

25.11.2024
 

From 2014-2018, Professor Ulrike Felt was Dean at the Faculty of Social Science. In an interview with Katja Horninger she speaks about this particular...

News
19.11.2024
 

We congratulate Astrid Mager and Karen Kastenhofer to their Habilitation and Hüseyin Kaya Akyüz to his PhD!

News
14.11.2024
 

Ulrike Felt, together with Alan Irwin, gathered over 90 authors to write about Science and Technology.

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 New Publications

Huber B, Lepenies R, Baena LQ, Allgaier J. Beyond Individualized Responsibility Attributions? How Eco Influencers Communicate Sustainability on TikTok. Environmental Communication. 2022 Oct 14;16(6):713-722. Epub 2022 Oct 11. doi: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2131868

Avkiran AS, Pham BC, Holmer C, Schikowitz A, Dessewffy E, Mora-Gámez F et al. Pandemic Research: Reflecting an on auto-ethnography of mundane academic practice in pandemic times. In DIY Methods: A Mostly Screen-Free, Zine-Full, Remote- Participation Conference on Experimental Methods for Research and Research Exchange. The Low-Carbon Research Methods Group. 2022. p. 243-253