Sociology of science and technology

02/18/2025

New publication: Old data in new media?

Danny Lämmerhirt and Cornelius Schubert investigate how digital body data can gain problematic popularity.

11/20/2024

New publication on patient-generated data

How does patient-generated data change the relationship between doctors and patients?

11/07/2024

Science under changing boundary conditions?

GWTF Annual Conference at the Dortmunder U on 14. and 15. November 2024

09/11/2024

Two papers and a prize at the ESA conference

Ronja Trischler and Ann Kristin Augst at the ESA 2024 in Porto

09/03/2024

New publication on artificial photosynthesis

How can new technologies prevail over established systems? A study on artificial photosynthesis.

08/22/2024

Presentation at the ESA conference in Porto

Presentation by Ronja Trischler at the ESA conference in Porto

08/22/2024

New article by Ronja Trischler published

Ronja Trischler's article "Die Materialität der Praxis: 'Machbarkeit' in digitalen Filmproduktionen" has been published

07/31/2024

Summmer School Technography

Summer school with international doctoral students at the intersection of social and technical sciences

07/22/2024

EASST-4S

Lively participation of the team from the Sociology of Science and Technology at TU Dortmund at the EASST-4S conference in Amsterdam

06/26/2024

Launch of the e-learning space for sociology of science and technology on Moodle

The ELS offers students numerous resources for research, academic work and writing academic texts during their studies.

03/28/2024

Call for Participation: PhD Summer School

Technography: Dissertations in interdisciplinary contexts, 25 & 26 July 2024, TU Dortmund, Germany

01/11/2024

Talk by Cornelius Schubert

With the title 'Theorizing and Technicizing. Knowledge production between social and technical sciences'. On January 26 in Chemnitz.

12/19/2023

New Article by Mirco Spiegel published

On Norbert Elias and image manipulation: Do deepfakes change how we perceive reality?

12/13/2023

Department of Social Sciences cooperates with IAB in the Graduate Programme (GradAB) in qualitative methods training

11/27/2023

Conference Report Published

For the section conference "Current Perspectives in Science and Technology Research" on May 4 and 5, 2023 at the Social Research Center in Dortmund

11/08/2023

New publication on misophonia

Misophonia is considered one of the first "internet diagnoses". What does social media have to do with it?

11/04/2023

The article "The un/visibility of menstrual blood and hygiene items" has been published.

Using the example of menstrual cup handling, Ann Kristin Augst talks about stigma and its management.

10/31/2023

New publication: Topic "Trans-Sequential Analysis" in Social Sense with editorial and article by Ronja Trischler

Inter alia, Ronja Trischler presents a version of the trans-sequential analysis coding method that she developed.

10/28/2023

A Warm Welcome, Ann Kristin Augst!

Since October 15, Ann Kristin Augst reinforces the team

10/23/2023

Ronja Trischler gives a talk on the 03.11.

About her ethnographic research on the production of digital visual effects for film and television.

10/17/2023

Seminar about the feminist critique on science

Inga Gittermann is organising a seminar on the feminist critique of the ideal of value-free objectivity. It starts on 26.10. at 4 pm.

09/29/2023

Talk by Ronja Trischler

On the topic of online discourses on 05.10.23 at the annual conference of the section of media and communication sociology

09/22/2023

New article "Bodies/Technology on Standby: The Importance of Cooperative Waiting for Digital Work"

Ronja Trischler on waiting as an important part of digital collaboration

09/22/2023

"Designing Postdigital Futures-The Case of Hackathons" has been published.

Ronja Trischler has published a new article with Hannes Krämer on the topic of future practices at hackathons (open access)

07/10/2023

Chapter »Digital Objects? Materialities in the Trans-Sequential Analysis of Digital Work« published

Contribution by Ronja Trischler in the anthology "Transsequenziell Forschen

07/06/2023

GWTF Annual Conference 2023 at TU Dortmund University

Climate Worlds Science, Technology and Society in Permanent Transformation? November 16 and 17, 2023

06/06/2023

Lecture by Cornelius Schubert

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology: "Resurgent Authoritarianism", Melbourne, 25. Juni - 1. Juli 2023

05/28/2023

Lecture by Isabelle Bosbach

On cryopreservation as part of the lecture series "10 Minutes of Sociology" at the University of Passau

05/01/2023

Call for Participation: PhD Summer School

"Technografie. Dissertationen in interdisziplinären Kontexten", 20. & 21.07.2023 at TU Dortmund

03/23/2023

Newly published: Hyperreality and Transhumanism by Mirco Spiegel

Cyborgs and Artificial Intelligences: Transhumanism from Jean Baudrillard's Perspective.

03/20/2023

New publication. Co-editor Cornelius Schubert

Cooperation from an interdisciplinary perspective

03/14/2023

Keynote lecture by Cornelius Schubert

Conference: "Field Research in Medicine. Added value and challenges of ethnographic approaches to health". March 23-24, 2023, University of Augsburg