About
Welcome to my website!
Currently I am working at the office of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund in a project for the president of the ERC, and I am teaching at the Department of Social Studies of Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna. My research interests are manifold: scientific visualization and imagination practices, the various enactments of social scientific knowledge, science communication, computer machine interfaces, information retrieval, new digital methodologies,… My PhD thesis, “Imag(in)ing Networks” (working title was: “Performative truths: images as affective evidences”) covers epistemic visualization practices in Social Network Analysis. From 2009-2011 I was working at the Information Retrieval Facility, and from 2005 - 2007 I was employed part time in an Austrian Science Fund research project on “The Materiality and Temporality of Performative Speech-Acts” at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. Besides, I was freelancing….
News:
- Forthcoming article in Theory & Psychology (Vol 22,2, Spring 2012): SPECIAL ISSUE: SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES: Cross-disciplinary reflections on technologies in and from the Social Science.
- New Publication as Co-Editor: Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval (Springer 2011)
- Article in Science, Technology and Innovation (Vol 7,1): The Five Senses of Science (2011)
- Contribution to Nikolaus Gansterer’s Drawing A Hypothesis (Springer 2011)
Teaching:
- SE 2012: Imagination and imaging in scientific practice. Department of Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna.
- UE 2012: Wissenskommunikation - Soziologisches Wissen zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Department of Sociology, University of Vienna.
other:
- SE 2011/2012: Enacting the social: How the social sciences participate in “making up” contemporary societies. Department of Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna.
- SE 2009/2010: Visiting „the laboratories“ of social sciences: research contexts, methods and question. Click here or here.
Events:
- IMA Workshop: Wissensmaschinen zwischen Freiheit und Kontrolle, 6-7 October 2011, Hainburg, Austria
- COQUS Workshop: Co-Evolution of Science and Society, 3 September, Linz, Ars Electronica
- Final Workshop: Forschung in den Künsten und die Transformation der Theorie, 7-9 April 2011, Zurich, CH
- CRESC Conference: The Social Life Of Methods, 31 August-3 September 2010, St Hugh’s College Oxford, UK
Contact:
If you want to contact me, please do so via this address: katjes [ at ] abwesend.de