233021 VO Techno-Science and Society: Communicating and Interacting (2023S)
Central Issues, Questions and Concepts
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Language: English
Examination dates
- Monday 03.07.2023 13:00 - 16:00 Ort in u:find Details
- Tuesday 04.07.2023 13:00 - 16:00 Ort in u:find Details
- Tuesday 03.10.2023 13:00 - 16:00 Ort in u:find Details
- Tuesday 12.12.2023 13:00 - 16:00 Ort in u:find Details
- Monday 29.01.2024 13:00 - 16:00 Ort in u:find Details
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Monday 06.03. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien (Kickoff Class)
- Monday 27.03. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Monday 17.04. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Monday 24.04. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Monday 08.05. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Monday 15.05. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Monday 22.05. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Monday 05.06. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Monday 12.06. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
- Monday 26.06. 09:15 - 11:15 Seminarraum STS, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/6. Stock, 1010 Wien
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Aims, contents and method of the course
The aim of this lecture course is to give students an understanding of interactions and engagement processes between technoscience and society, and of challenges relating to these interactions. We will address the multiplicity of settings in which science and society interact, investigating the actors involved and the processes these interactions entail.We start by mapping the central issues at stake and the actors typically involved in technoscience-society interactions. We will then engage with questions of different forms of societal participation in governing technoscientific developments as well as in knowledge-making. Next, we will scrutinize the role of values, affect and responsibility when technosciences and society engage with each other. This leads us to reflect on the politics of scientific communication and engagement, with a specific focus on governance and future making. It also means looking into issues of who holds expertise and thus power in the public arena when it comes to political decision-making, investigating the role science and technologies play in making (national) identities, and studying what responsibilities are involved in science communication and diverse forms of engagement with society. We will also explore what happens when science and law come to interact and when (big) data comes to ‘speak for’ society. Finally, we will look at risk and disaster situations and trace how communication and interaction work out there. Throughout the lecture, students will be introduced to important approaches and concepts that have been developed to address those questions. The lecture course is accompanied by a discussion class (KO 233022).
Assessment and permitted materials
The final grade will be based on an oral exam.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Every question in the oral exam is graded on a 1-5 scale. The total grade is the average of the grades of the single questions.
Examination topics
Learning materials for the exam are the oral lectures given, the pdfs of the slides available on the e-learning platform, and the set texts students are asked to read. A list of exam questions will be provided. Each student is asked four questions from this list in the oral exam.
Reading list
Association in the course directory
MA HPS: M 1.1, M 1.2, M 1.3
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Last modified: Fr 01.09.2023 13:07