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

14.02.2024
 

PhD Defensio

We warmly invite you to the PhD defense of Pouya Sepehr.

02.02.2024 15:00
 

Master Defensio

We warmly invite you to the defensio of Keziah Sheldon.

 STS Talks Vienna

22.11.2023
 

STS Talk

We are delighted to announce Eva Šlesingerová STS talk on 22 November, 5.30 pm.



 New Publications

Felt U. The temporal choreographies of participation: Thinking innovation and society from a time-sensitive perspective. In Chilvers J, Kearnes M, editors, Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics. London/New York: Routledge. 2016. p. 178-198 doi: 10.4324/9780203797693

Boon W, Aarden E, Broerse J. Path creation by public agencies — The case of desirable futures of genomics. Technological Forecasting & Social Change. 2015 Oct;99:67-76. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.06.038

Morstatter F, Pfeffer J, Mayer K, Liu H. Text, topics, and turkers: A consensus measure for statistical topics. In HT 2015 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2015. p. 123-131 doi: 10.1145/2700171.2791028