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

08.09.2025 10:15
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the PhD defensio of Laura Bomm

02.09.2025 14:00
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Tilman Freiherr von Werthern

 STS Talks Vienna

16.10.2025 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk by Sally Wyatt

We are thrilled to announce Sally Wyatt's talk on October 16, 2025 04:00 PM

 

02.10.2025 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk x by Panel discussion 'Alternative knowledge practices and the politics of urban transformation'

We are thrilled to announce the panel discussion 'Alternative knowledge practices and the politics of urban transformation' on October 02, 2025 04:00...



 New Publications

Bayer F. Die Etablierung der Wiener Nuklearmedizin im Kontext des Ost-West-Konflikts. In Nemec B, Hofer HG, Seebacher F, Schütz W, editors, Medizin in Wien nach 1945: Strukturen, Aushandlungsprozesse, Reflexionen. V&R unipress, Vienna University Press. 2022. (650 Jahre Universität Wien - Aufbruch ins neue Jahrhundert, Vol. 6). doi: 10.14220/9783737013932.447

Klimburg-Witjes N, Leese M, Trauttmansdorff P. Expanding boundaries: Unmaking and remaking secrecy in field research. Political anthropological research on international social sciences. 2022;3(2):168-197. Epub 2022 Nov 8. doi: 10.1163/25903276-bja10039

Mayer K, Shah EI. Human Sensors. In Sensing In/Security. Mattering Press. 2022. p. 206-215 doi: 10.28938/9781912729050

Haddad C, Günay C, Ghariba S, Komendantova N. Imagined inclusions into a ‘green modernisation’: local politics and global visions of Morocco’s renewable energy transition. Third World Quarterly. 2022;43(2):393-413. doi: 01436597.2021.2014315

Felt U. Making and Taking Time. Work, funding and assessment infrastructures in inter- and transdisciplinary research. In Vienni Baptista B, Thompson Klein J, editors, Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Collaboration across Cultures and Communities. 1. ed. London: Routledge. 2022 doi: 10.4324/9781003129424