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

05.06.2025 16:00
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Barry Jenkins

29.04.2025 15:30
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the PhD defensio of Rasmus Kvaal Wardemann

 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

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.

News
09.07.2024
 

The EASST-4S Conference in Amsterdam will be joined by members of the STS Department

News

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 New Publications

Felt U. Living a Real-world Experiment: Post-Fukushima Imaginaries and Spatial Practices of “Containing the Nuclear”. In van de Poel I, Asveld L, Mehos DC, editors, Experimentation beyond the laboratory: new perspectives on technology in society. Routledge. 2018. p. 49-78

Mayer K, Kieslinger B, Schäfer T. Open and participatory citizen social science for evidence-based decision making. In Austrian Citizen Science Conference. Vol. 4. Frontiers Research Foundation. 2018. p. 74-77 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1479273, 10.3389/978-2-88945-587-4

Felt U. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). In Gibbon S, Prainsack B, Hilgartner S, Lamoreaux J, editors, Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society. Routledge. 2018

Felt U. “Response-able Practices” or “New Bureaucracies of Virtue”: The Challenges of Making RRI Work in Academic Environments. In Asveld L, van Dam-Mieras R, Swierstra T, Lavrijssen S, Linse K, van den Hoven J, editors, Responsible Innovation 3. Chem: Springer. 2017. p. 49-68

Felt U, Schwarz-Plaschg C, Schumann S. IMAGINE. A card-based discussion method. In Liamputtong P, editor, Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences. Singapore: Springer. 2017 doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-2779-6_9-1