Sociology of science and technology

11/26/2025

New article by Ann Kristin Augst and colleagues published

The article shows how differentiated perspectives on the body can open up new insights in situational analysis.

10/27/2025

Data Sprint "Digital Health Data"

In the project “Digital Body Knowledge”, we analysed forum data with Lisa Gerzen, Enrico Maria Piras, and Kate Weiner.

10/16/2025

Our reasearch group at the DGS Congress 2025

Our reasearch group was represented at the DGS Congress 2025 with several contributions.

10/14/2025

New article by Mirco Spiegel published

Technically animated sex dolls on the boundary of the human: The awakening of monsters?

10/14/2025

Sociology of science and technology at the "Doing Popularity" conference

Cornelius Schubert, Ann-Kristin Augst and Ronja Trischler take part in the conference "Doing Popularity" of the CRC "Transformations of the Popular"

06/30/2025

A visit to the Hoesch-Museum

The department visited the Hoesch-Museum, including the House of Steel.

05/26/2025

Presentation by Cornelius Schubert

"The 'pro-innovation bias' of social innovations". Presentation at the conference "Transformative (social) science?" on May 23 in Görlitz.

05/15/2025

Contributions from our research group at the DGS Congress 2025

Our research group will be represented at the DGS congress at the University of Duisburg-Essen with various contributions

05/12/2025

New article by Isabelle Bosbach published

Umbilical cord blood preservation as a safeguard for potential: On the relation of health, open future and prenatal responsibility

04/15/2025

New article by Ann Kristin Augst and Cornelius Schubert

In their article "Apple Watch", Ann Kristin Augst and Cornelius Schubert explore the device's shift between lifestyle gadget and medical product.

03/28/2025

New book published

Ronja Trischler has co-authored a book about hackathons in digital capitalism with Oliver Berli, Valentin Janda, Hannes Krämer, Diana Lengersdorf,…

03/25/2025

Welcome Prof. Tannistha Samanta

The sociologist from FLAME University in Pune, India, is a Senior Fellow at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities and the TU until August.

03/18/2025

Sociology of Science and Technology at the STS-Hub 2025 in Berlin

Cornelius Schubert, Ann Kristin Augst and Ronja Trischler organised several panels at the conference: on university teaching in the field of Science…

03/18/2025

Comittee elections 2025 of the German Sociological Association

Ronja Trischler was elected to the council of the DGS.

03/12/2025

Talk by Ronja Trischler about online moderation

Ronja Trischler talks about "Winding up moderation. Ending discursive practices" at interdisciplinary workshop in Essen

03/07/2025

Presentation by Mirco Spiegel in Hamburg

Presentation at the conference "Kulturen der Trauer und des Todes" of the Arbeitskreis Thanatologie

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