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

06.06.2025 12:00
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Daphne Lenz

05.06.2025 16:00
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Barry Jenkins

 STS Talks Vienna

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

20.03.2025 16:00
 

FutureSpace Talk by Karlijn Korpershoek

We are thrilled to announce Karlijn Korpershoek's Talk on March 20, 2025 04:00 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

Sormani PB. Fun in Go: The Timely Delivery of a Monkey Jump and its Lingering Relevance to Science Studies. Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences. 2015 Jun 1;38(2):281-308 . doi: 10.1007/s10746-015-9340-x

Penkler M, Felder KF, Felt U. Diagnostic Narratives: Creating Visions of Austrian Society in Print Media Accounts of Obesity. Science Communication. 2015 Jun;37(3):314– 339. doi: 10.1177/1075547015575791