Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung

Wissenschaft, Technologie und Innovation formen zahllose Aspekte des Lebens in modernen Gesellschaften. Manche Veränderungen werden als positiv erlebt, andere sind hoch kontroversiell. Zugleich beeinflussen Politik, Medien, Firmen und andere gesellschaftliche Akteure, wie Wissen und Technologie erzeugt werden. Die Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung analysiert diese Beziehungen und fördert kritische und reflexive Debatten zu den Beziehungen von Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft.

 Defensiones

21.10.2025 16:30
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Roman Michael Hansen

20.10.2025 11:30
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Constantin Wolfgang Holmer:

 STS Talks Vienna

25.11.2025 17:00
 

Vienna STS Talk x INNORES Talk by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

We are thrilled to announce Nanna Bonde Thylstrup's talk on November 25, 2025 05:00 PM

12.11.2025 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk x FutureSpace Talk by Ralo Mayer

We are thrilled to announce Ralo Mayer's talk on November 12, 2025 04:00 PM

 

 News

08.05.2025
 

We congratulate Rasmus Kvaal Wardemann on his PhD defensio!

News
11.03.2025
 

The ERC-funded Research Project “ALTERBIOTIC” (lead by Assist.-Prof. Dr. Christian Haddad) explores the pressing global health crisis of antimicrobial...

News
05.03.2025
 

Find all the relevant Information about the Department's Master programme in Science-Technology-Society in the recording of the first Information...

News
04.03.2025
 

The ERC-funded Research Project “FutureSpace” (lead by Assist.Prof. Nina Klimburg-Witjes) explores the shifting temporalities, infrastructures, and...

News
11.12.2024
 

Sara Davies describes her book as an introduction to science, technology, and society answers these questions, and more, by exploring contemporary...

News
03.12.2024
 

The prestigious award for culture and science is endowed with 10,000 Euros with a award ceremony in the town hall on November 27th, 2024

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 New Publications

Lehner L, Gribi J, Hoffmann K, Paul KT, Kutalek R. Beyond the “information deficit model” - understanding vaccine-hesitant attitudes of midwives in Austria: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health. 2021 Dez;21(1):1671. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11710-y

Habermann B, Vogl CR, Mekonnen K, Bekele K, Felt U. Farmers and scientists in AR4D: Looking at a watershed management project through an STS lens. NJAS: Impact in agricultural and life sciences. 2021 Nov;93(1):126-151. doi: 10.1080/27685241.2021.1993095

Klimburg-Witjes N, Wentland A. Hacking Humans? Social engineering and the construction of the “deficient user” in cyber-security discourses. Science, Technology & Human Values. 2021 Nov;46(6):1316–1339. doi: 10.1177/0162243921992844

Passoth JH, Bowker GC, Klimburg-Witjes N, Van Mannen GJ. Hacking Satellites. in Sensing In/Security: Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures. Manchester: Mattering Press. 2021. S. 399-409