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

27.11.2025 09:00
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Maximilian Karge

26.11.2025 16:00
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Pipi Paloeka de Koning

 

 STS Talks Vienna

10.06.2026 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk by Sharon Tsai-Hsuan Ku

We are thrilled to announce Sharon Tsai-Hsuan Ku's talk on June 10, 2026 04:00 PM

28.05.2026 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk x FutureSpace Talk by Chakad Ojani

We are thrilled to announce Chakad Ojani's talk on May 28, 2026 04:00 PM

 Events

04.11.2025 12:30
 

STS Lunch Lecture by Mirko Schäfer

We warmly invite you to join our STS Lunch Lecture, where Mirko Tobias Schäfer will speak about “Custodial Work for Algorithmic Systems: Researching...

 News

17.11.2025
 

The 2025 Friedrich Schiedel Prizes honor Ulrike Felt and Martha Minow, two visionary thinkers whose work is redefining the ethical and social...

News
16.10.2025
 

We congratulate Laura Bomm and Bao-Chau Pham on their PhD defensio!

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 New Publications

Verstappen S, Davies S. Ethnographic film as world-making: Connecting visual anthropology with Science and Technology Studies. Visual Anthropology Review. 2024 Okt. 3;40(2):147-160. Epub 2024 Okt. 3. doi: 10.1111/var.12338

Pham BC, Davies S. Policy as infrastructure: Enacting artificial intelligence and making Europe. in Klimburg-Witjes N, Trauttmansdorff P, Hrsg., Technopolitics and the Making of Europe: Infrastructures of Security. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2024. S. 125–140 Epub 2023.

Tzortzatou-Nanopoulou O, Akyüz K, Goisauf M, Kozera Ł, Mežinska S, Th Mayrhofer M et al. Ethical, legal, and social implications in research biobanking: A checklist for navigating complexity. Developing World Bioethics. 2024 Sept.;24(3):139-150. Epub 2023 Juli 10. doi: 10.1111/dewb.12411

Schikowitz A, Davies S. Housing activists' science communication: online practices as contextual and reflexive. JCOM. 2024 Juni 17;23(5):A01. doi: 10.22323/2.23050201

Radhuber I, Haddad C, Kieslich K, Paul KT, Prainsack B, El-Sayed S et al. Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID‑19 in Austria. BioSocieties. 2024 Juni;19(2):326-351. Epub 2023 Mai 22. doi: 10.1057/s41292-023-00304-z