Dr. rer. soc. Christoph Schneider, M.A.
- Scientific staff until 2022
- resigned
- Research group “Socio-Technical Futures and Policies”
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Fields of work
My research focuses on the emerging relationships between society, science, politics and the economy due to digitization. I think that technology assessment has to participate in the democratic shaping of these relationships and needs to be relevant to different fields of practice. This needs a view towards possible futures and the possibilities of the present for change. But it also needs engaged and participatory forms of research. Concretely this means:
- How is our knowledge changing due to digitization and how can we expand on human strengths such as imagination, creativity and collaboration to shape our digital future.
- How do we achieve new forms of embedding science in society?
- How can we use digital technologies for the common good?
- How can we democratically shape the technological jump that we are living through?
- How can technology assessment become more strong in co-shaping societal futures?
Professional background
2007 - 2010 | Studies in Sociology and Educational Planning and Instructional Design (B.A.) at Freiburg University. |
2010 - 2011 | Studies of Sociology at Lancaster University (M.A.). Title of masters thesis “Smartphones: circulating possibilities” |
2012 - 2017 | Scientific staff member Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis |
2017 | Awarded PhD at Technical University of Munich with distinction. “Opening digital fabrication: transforming TechKnowledgies” |
2017 - 2018 | Scientific staff at Munich Center for Technology in Society |
since 2018 | Consultant for digital-social innovation |
2019 - 2022 | Scientific staff member Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis |