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.

 News & Events

25.05.2020
 

Call for Abstracts

'Making Europe through infrastructures of (in)security'

The Interdisciplinary Workshop is inspired by the need to investigate how infrastructures of...

13.05.2020
 

Please note: cancellation of talks in June

06.04.2020
 
14.02.2020
 

Lisa Sigl, Ulrike Felt and Maximilian Fochler published an article about the Narrative Framing of Societal Responsibilities in Academic Life Science...

03.02.2020
 

... goes to Ruth Falkenberg for her Master's thesis and Andrea Schikowitz for her PhD dissertation!

27.01.2020
 

When you study medicine, you become a doctor. When you study law, you become a lawyer. But when you study STS, what do you become?

 New Publications

Klimburg-Witjes N, Leese M, Trauttmansdorff P. Expanding boundaries: Unmaking and remaking secrecy in field research. Political anthropological research on international social sciences. 2022;3(2):168-197. Epub 2022 Nov 8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/25903276-bja10039

Mayer K, Shah EI. Human Sensors. in Sensing In/Security. Mattering Press. 2022. S. 206-215 doi: http://doi.org/10.28938/9781912729050

Felt U. Making and Taking Time. Work, funding and assessment infrastructures in inter- and transdisciplinary research. in Vienni Baptista B, Thompson Klein J, Hrsg., Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Collaboration across Cultures and Communities. 1. Aufl. London: Routledge. 2022 doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003129424