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

20.09.2023
 

Ulrike Felt, Susanne Öchsner, Robin Rae and Ekaterina Osipova have just published a new article in the Journal of Responsible Innovation.

20.07.2023
 

Paul Trauttmansdorff and Nina Klimburg-Witjes have just published a new book called:

12.07.2023
 

Lisa Sigl's, Ruth Falkenberg's, and Maximilian Fochler's new article was just accepted in Social Studies of Science.

12.07.2023
 

Ruth Falkenberg, Lisa Sigl and Maximilian Fochler have just published a new article in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science:

26.06.2023
 

Sarah R. Davies and Fredy Mora-Gámez have just published a new article in the International Journal of Communication, Special Section on Afterlives of...

22.06.2023
 

Fredy Mora-Gámez has just published a new article in Science as Culture: The official record of victims as a bordering technology: knowledge and...

 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