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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Aarden E. Decoding the Million Death Study. Ambivalence of Producing Evidence on Mortality in India. Economic and Political Weekly: a journal of current economic and political affairs. 2019 Dec 21;54(50):41-48.
Mayer K. Offene Wissenschaft braucht offene Infrastrukturen: Zur Diskussion der Ergebnisse der Europäischen Mutual Learning Exercise: Open Science – Altmetrics and Rewards. . Mitteilungen der Vereinigung österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare. 2019 Oct 9;72(2):337-355. doi.org/10.31263/voebm.v72i2.3175
Felt U, Öchsner S. Reordering the “World of Things”: The Sociotechnical Imaginary of RFID Tagging and New Geographies of Responsibility. Science and Engineering Ethics. 2019 Oct;25(5):1425–1446. doi.org/10.1007/s11948-018-0071-z
Mora-Gámez F, Brown SD. The psychosocial management of rights restitution: Tracing technologies for reparation in post-conflict Colombia. Theory and Psychology. 2019 Aug 4;29(4):521-538. doi.org/10.1177/0959354319863136
Mayer K, Mager A. Body Data - Data Body: Tracing ambiguous trajectories of data bodies between empowerment and social control in the context of health. Momentum Quaterly. 2019 Jul 1;8(2). doi.org/10.15203/momentumquarterly.vol8.no2.p95-108