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09/11/2024

Two papers and a prize at the ESA conference

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

Ronja Trischler and Ann Kristin Augst attending the ESA conference in Porto
09/03/2024

New publication on artificial photosynthesis

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

Screenshot of the article title
08/22/2024

Presentation at the ESA conference in Porto

Presentation by Ronja Trischler at the ESA conference in Porto

European Sociological Association (ESA)
08/22/2024

New article by Ronja Trischler published

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

Ronja Trischler
07/31/2024

Summmer School Technography

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

Technografie Summer School attendees on rooftop bar
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

The photo shows Ann Kristin Augst, Cornelius Schubert, Ronja Trischler and Julia Kurz standing in front of the building at the EASST-4S 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.

ELS Logo
03/28/2024

Call for Participation: PhD Summer School

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

Summer School
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.

Excerpt from the flyer for the event, in Red Section Sociology of Knowledge January 25/26, 2024 TU Chemnitz, DGS logo
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

Screenshot of the Website of IAB
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

Cover of the journal 'Soziologie', in which the conference report was published
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?

Title of the article Making Up Misophonic People - On the Popularization of a Medical Category in Social Media by Schubert und Zillien (2023)
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.

Cover of the magazine Betrifft Mädchen, issue 'Menstruating (k)ein Tabu' (menstruating (k)ein Tabu)
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.

Logo of Social Sense magazine
10/28/2023

A Warm Welcome, Ann Kristin Augst!

Since October 15, Ann Kristin Augst reinforces the team

Portrait von Ann-Kristin Augst
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.

Meeting title
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.

Große Eizelle neben klitzekleinem Spermium untertitelt mit "Portrait of a Sperm"
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

Logo des DGS: Stilisierte Menschenmenge in Reihen aufgestellt
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

 

Cover von Materiality of Cooperation
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)

Image from title page
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

Cover of the book Transsequent Research
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

GWTF annual conference 2023: Klimawelten Wissenschaft, Technik und Gesellschaft im Dauerumbau?
06/06/2023

Lecture by Cornelius Schubert

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

Poster of the ISA-Conference, titled "XX ISA World Congress of Sociology"
05/28/2023

Lecture by Isabelle Bosbach

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

Logo of the lecture series Good Life of 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

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03/23/2023

Newly published: Hyperreality and Transhumanism by Mirco Spiegel

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

Bookcover of "Hyperrealität und Transhumanismus" von Mirco Spiegel, 2022
03/20/2023

New publication. Co-editor Cornelius Schubert

Cooperation from an interdisciplinary perspective

Bookcover of "Varieties of Cooperation - Mutually Making the Conditions of Mutual Making", 2023
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

Cornelius Schubert while speaking