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Call for Abstracts: Ad Hoc Group "Research in the Pandemic" at the Congress of the German Sociological Association and the Austrian Sociological Association, 23-25 August 2021 in Vienna [download [1]]

Jochen Gläser

Societal responses to the current pandemic have created two extreme situations for research:

In addition, we witness unpredictable disruptions of societal services on which time for research depends such as childcare, schooling, or others. First investigations show that female researchers are disproportionately affected by the interruptions of these services.

Both the intensification and the interruptions of research have consequences for research processes and academic careers that may extend far beyond the end of the pandemic. The ad hoc – group will bring together sociological studies on pandemic-driven changes in research and explore the potential of the two extreme situations of intensification and interruptions for a deeper theoretical understanding of chronological structures and conditions of research that we took for granted until the pandemic hit. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Please send your abstract (max. 2,400 characters incl. spaces) by April 20th to Jochen.Glaeser@tu-berlin.de. [2]

„Die technische Infrastruktur von Plattform-Märkten. Konzeptionelle Überlegungen zur Integration von ökonomischen und infrastrukturellen Aspekten"

Es ist da - unser neues Discussion Paper:

Jochen Gläser (ed.) (2020): Lockdown Bibliometrics: Papers not submitted to the STI conference 2020 in Aarhus - SoS Discussion Paper 02_2020 [4]

Weitere Discussion Paper hier [5] herunterladen.

„Plattformen als Infrastruktur-Dienstleister für Selbstständige. Zur Einbettung von (Schein-)Selbstständigkeit in infrastrukturzentrierten digitalen Märkten"

Christopher Grieser
TU Berlin, FG Sozialwissenschaftliche Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung

Link zum Vortrag im Programm der DGS