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Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary research field concerned with how science and technology shapes and affects society and vice versa. The field has existed for roughly 50 years and emphasizes empirical studies of science and technology as practices. This means that knowledge and technology is seen as products of heterogeneous, situated, contingent and ‘messy’ processes in which social actors, materiality, other technologies, concepts and theories take part. The field of STS draws on extensive resources such as constructivism, post structuralism, process philosophy, social anthropology, critical theory, actor network theory, feminist studies, ethnography, work place studies, phenomenology and others.

At the centre, STS forms a methodological and conceptual resource for studying the role of technology and especially IT in a range of everyday and work life settings. STS helps us attend to the more or less visible and trivial aspects of the interaction between human actors and technologies. Our research often focuses on how humans and technologies forms - or attempts to form – functioning assemblages capable of action. The meticulous and tedious work of making something work is one of our central concerns.

The STS centre was established in 2000 and has over the years hosted a range of substantial national and international conferences, seminars and guests.

On behalf of the centre, the steering committee:

Claus Bossen , Professor , School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies
Amalie Scheel Nielsen , PhD Student , School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies
Kasper Hedegård Schiølin , Assistant Professor , School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Researchers

Jakob Kleofas Adolph

PhD Student School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Anders Albrechtslund

Professor School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Sigrid Bjerre Olesen

PhD Student School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Claus Bossen

Professor School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Peter Danholt

Associate Professor School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Ane Kathrine Lolholm Gammelby

Postdoc School of Culture and Society - Department of Anthropology

Amanda Karlsson

Postdoc School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Kalle Kusk

PhD Student School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Peter Lauritsen

Professor School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Timo Leimbach

Associate Professor School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Astrid Meyer

Research Assistant School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Amalie Scheel Nielsen

PhD Student School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Finn Olesen

Associate Professor School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Kasper Ostrowski

AC Researcher School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Asbjørn Malte Pedersen

PhD Student School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Mikkel Rask Pedersen

Postdoc School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Mathias Alegría Rosa Gil

PhD Student School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Kasper Hedegård Schiølin

Assistant Professor School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Frederik Vejlin

Postdoc School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies

Pablo Velasco

Associate Professor School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies


Research areas

  • Healthcare practices and technologies
  • Surveillance practices and technologies
  • Organization, work and technology
  • Philosophy of technology
  • Governance, performance and technology
  • Social media and methods
  • Self-tracking and subjectivity
  • Empowerment and technology
  • Design practices and participation
  • Project management and innovation
  • Constructivism, democracy and normativity

Publications from our members


What Danish STS are doing