Talk by Stefan Böschen at the Austrian Academy of Sciences: Engineering turn? The shift in research cultures as a challenge for science research
On Tuesday, March 28, Stefan Böschen is presenting the work of c:o/re at the Institute for Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. You can find the abstract and …
Coming up: Lecture Series on Complexity
The summer term’s c:o/re Lecture Series will focus on the topic of complexity. But what is complexity? The Encyclopedia Britannica explains complexity as “a scientific theory which asserts that some systems display …
What makes an ideal robot girlfriend?
ILIANA DEPOUNTI Social robots and chatbots powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are part of the fourth industrial revolution (Floridi, 2008; Cross et al., 2019), which brings humans and machines closer …
Studying Videogames: A 20-Years Old Challenge for the Humanities
GIANMARCO THIERRY GIULIANA Videogames… Today they are everywhere: they inspire books, TV series and films in the cinema, they fill sports stadiums for competitions, they are used in museums and …
“Only the Initiates Will Have the Secrets Revealed”. The Politics and Materialities of Open Science (Alexandre Hocquet)
Alexandre Hocquet is c:o/re fellow and Professor of History of Science at the Université de Lorraine, France, and Member of the Laboratory Archives Henri-Poincaré—Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et …
Software as research culture: new study group at c:/ore, focused on software
The work that this group pursues aligns with that of the Computational Science Studies Lab, set up by Professor Gabriele Gramelsberger, Chair for Philosophy of Science and Technology (Humtec, RWTH …
Annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
The annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) takes place on July 6-9, 2022, in Madrid: “The Politics of Technoscientific Futures” is the …
Trials of implicitness: technology testing beyond the laboratory or the coming crisis of experimental accountability (Noortje Marres)
c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research On Wednesday, November 2nd, STS researcher and Professor at Warwick University, UK, Noortje Marres, will talk about Trials of implicitness: technology testing beyond the …
IDEA League Summer School: Trajectories of Technology
Is development of technology driven by innovation and break through engineering or is technology development incremental resulting from long-term agenda setting, road mapping processes, social interaction? By taking a break …
