What role do computer models and AI applications play in policy decisions? And what are the consequences for the work on technology assessment? The current TATuP special topic focuses on these questions.
TATuP Special topic in issue 1, 2024. Deadline: 02. Mai 2023.
From the perspective of many scientists, important decisions regarding the storage of radioactive waste must be made as soon as possible. The Research articles in the current issue of TATuP take an interdisciplinary approach to issues surrounding the siting of radioactive waste.
Read more about New TATuP issue “The future of radioactive waste disposal”
TATuP-Special topic in Volume 31, Issue 3 (2023). Deadline: 03 February 2023.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: "Assessing the (de)construction of technological hypes"
TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice invites you to submit proposals for future TATuP Special topics (deadline 31 January 2023).
TATuP Special topic in issue 2, 2023. Extended deadline: 12 October 2022.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: "Potentials of TA in sudden and enduring crises"
Can modern societies get by with less energy than before? The current TATuP issue looks at the opportunities offered by the sufficiency concept and scenarios for lower energy consumption.
As a “pioneer of inter- and transdisciplinarity,” technology assessment plays an increasingly important role in academic teaching. What this development means for technology assessment (TA) is explored in the new issue of TATuP.
Read more about New TATuP issue “Technology assessment and higher education”
TATuP Special Topic in issue 1/2023. Extended deadline 17 May 2022.
TATuP-special topic in issue 3/2022. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 18 February 2022.
Artificial intelligence and big data are major topics in business, society, and science. TATuP explores ways to strengthen society’s understanding of AI and to shape the technology’s use in a meaningful way.
Read more about New TATuP issue “Designing and experiencing AI systems”
TATuP, based at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), is currently in its 30th year of publication. Launched in 1992 as TA-Datenbank-Nachrichten, TATuP has evolved over the years into a peer-reviewed open access journal that today addresses an increasingly international audience.
Read more about 30 years of publication: TATuP celebrates anniversary
TATuP-special topic in issue 2/2022. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 30 September 2021
Today, DNA sequencing is part of the standard repertoire of biological and medical research. However, the abundance and quality of the data obtained pose challenges for society and science. These are topics of the new TATuP issue.
Read more about New TATuP issue on “Next generation sequencing”
TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice invites you to submit proposals for future TATuP Special Topics (deadline 01 October 2021).
TATuP-special topic in issue 1/2022. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 12 May 2021
Although often called for, urban transformation is a long time coming. The new TATuP issue explores how integrative approaches that combine smart technologies with social innovations could make European cities more sustainable.
Read more about New TATuP issue on “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities in Europe”
TATuP-special topic in issue 3/2021. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 22 February 2021
A close connection to democratic societies has always been a characteristic of technology assessment. So how should TA deal with the current crisis of democracy? The authors of the current TATuP are looking for answers.
Read more about New TATuP issue on “Democracy and Technology Assessment”
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “Next Generation Sequencing: Challenges for Science and Society”
Digitalization allows networks for energy, mobility, and information to be linked ever more closely. How these “converging infrastructures” can be used for social transformation is addressed in the current TATuP.
Read more about New TATuP issue on “Converging Infrastructures”
TATuP-special topic in issue 1/2021. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 20 May 2020
Modern societies depend on digital infrastructures and have to defend themselves against cyberattacks. The Special Topic of the current TATuP issue deals with the possibilities and risks of the employed technologies.
TATuP-special topic in issue 3/2020. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 28 February 2020
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “Democracy and TA. Practical issues and conceptual consequences”
How can the transformation to a climate-neutral energy system succeed? The contributions in TATuP 3/2019 address the question of how to generate and communicate knowledge about possible future paths.
TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice invites you to submit proposals for future TATuP Special Topics.
TATuP special topic in issue 2/2020. Deadline for submitting your abstract: November 29, 2019
Information and communications technology (ICT) creates new opportunities, but also poses risks. The TATuP special topic in issue 2/2019 addresses specific challenges in the Global South and places TA of digitalization in a global context.
TATuP-special topic in issue 1/2020. Deadline for your abstract: EXTENDED DEADLINE June 21, 2019
Technology assessment (TA) has to deal with the conflict between commitment and neutrality. The current TATuP issue 1/2019 questions the myth of neutrality in TA and wants to further the debate on its normative aspects.
TATuP-special topic in issue 3/2019. Deadline for your abstract: March 19, 2019
Read more about Call for Abstracts: „Energy futures: to know, to advise and to shape“
Unmanned and increasingly autonomous flight systems conquer the airspace. TATuP 3/2018 deals with possible paths of technology development, its actors, and the need for a legal framework for current and future fields of application.
TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis invites you to submit proposals for future TATuP-Special Topics.
TATuP special topic in issue 2/2019. Submission of your abstract until 25 October 2018.
Blessing or curse for a sustainable mobility system? In its current issue 2/2018, the Journal on Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice examines the societal, social, and ecological aspects of self-driving cars.
TATuP-topic 1/2019 discusses the normative basis of TA. Extended deadline until 16 Juli 2018!
Read more about Call for Abstracts „Normativity in Technology Assessment“
TATuP THEME 3/2018 is about unmanned aircrafts. Abstracts will be accepted until 8 April 2018.
Read more about Call for Abstracts „Drones and the tension between military and civil applications“
The current issue builds a bridge from technology assessment (TA) to agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS).
Read more about TATuP26/3 (2017) “Technology – Consequences – Simulated” published
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and strengthen your field of research in the debates on technology assessment!
Die erste Ausgabe nach dem Relaunch beschäftigt sich aus Perspektive der Technikfolgenabschätzung mit den Risiken und Potenzialen einer offenen Wissenschaft.
Read more about Ausgabe 26/1-2 (2017): “Open Science zwischen Hype und Disruption” erschienen
The new TATuP edition 1/2018 will be on “A Theory of TA”. Abstracts can be submitted by the 15th of June 2017.
Read more about Call for Papers „Ten years after – Theory of TA reloaded“
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Read more about TATuP 1–2/2017 with main topic “Open Science”
What role do computer models and AI applications play in policy decisions? And what are the consequences for the work on technology assessment? The current TATuP special topic focuses on these questions.
TATuP Special topic in issue 1, 2024. Deadline: 02. Mai 2023.
From the perspective of many scientists, important decisions regarding the storage of radioactive waste must be made as soon as possible. The Research articles in the current issue of TATuP take an interdisciplinary approach to issues surrounding the siting of radioactive waste.
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