Listra

Lecturer at the Department of Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna

Preferred research interests: Social Studies of Technology and Medicine, New Media, Information and Knowledge Politics.

PhD at the Department of Social Studies of Science with the title: „Mediated Knowledge. Sociotechnical practices of communicating medical knowledge via the web and their epistemic implications“ (2010)

Co-organizer and member of the „Gruppe Internetforschung“ at the Graduiertenzentrum, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Vienna

Associate of the Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam

Publications

Mager Astrid (2009): Mediated Health. Sociotechnical practices of providing and using online health information, New Media & Society 11/7: 1123-1142. <link>

Felt, Ulrike, Gugglberger, Lisa and Mager, Astrid (2009) Shaping the Future E-Patient: The Citizen-Patient in Public Discourse on E-Health, Science Studies 22/1: 24-43. <link>

Felt Ulrike, Maximilian Fochler, Astrid Mager, Peter Winkler (2008): Visions and Versions of Governing Biomedicine: Narratives on Power Structures, Decision-Making, and Public Participation in the Field of Biomedical Technologies in the Austrian Context, Social Studies of Science 38/2: 233 – 257. <link>

Felt, Ulrike, Lisa Gugglberger, Bernhard Höcher, Astrid Mager, Sonja Österreicher (2008): Virtuell informiert? Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen für die Medizin im Internetzeitalter, Project Report. <link>

Mager Astrid (2002): „Ewige Jugend“ – „Menschliche Ersatzteile“ – „Zuwenig Verkehrstote“. Organtransplantation im Kontext österreichischer Medienberichterstattung. Diplomarbeit, Wien

Lectures

„Mediated Knowledge. Sociotechnical practices of communicating medical knowledge via the web and their epistemic implications“, Seminar lectures in Lund and Borås (Library and Information Science), 27 April – 4 May 2010

„Fabrikation von medizinischem Wissens im Netz“, Web as Culture, Giessen 16-18 July 2009 (cancelled due to illness)

„Das weltweite Netz (ab)bilden“, Visualisierung sozialer Netzwerke, Munich 1-2 May 2009

„Acting with the Web. How to handle multiplicity in the context of online health information“, 4S – EASST Annual Meeting 2008: Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine, Rotterdam 20-23 August 2008

„Multiplying ‘the web’: How the choice of method frames the object of study“, Conference Virtually Informed – The Internet as (new) health information source, Vienna 25-26 January 2008

„´Virtual´ networks meet ´real´ surfers? Multiple Internet/s in the context of online health information“, Internet Research 8.0: Let’s Play Conference, Vancouver 17-20 October 2007

„Mapping, practicing and thinking „the InterNet“. Challenging network thought in the context of online health information“, New Network Theory Conference, Amsterdam 28-30 June 2007

„Giving birth to the e-patient: Configuring the multiple patient in public discourses on e-health“, Easst Conference 2006, Lausanne 23-26 August 2006 (together with Ulrike Felt and Lisa Gugglberger)

Outreach Activities:

Participation in the public event: „YouTube Cinema: Sacred and Profane“, Vienna 14 December 2009.

Article in „Corpus“, Internet magazine for dance, choreography, and performance: „#UNSERWISSEN“, 2009. <link>

Interview for the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, article: „Praxis Dr. Google“, January 2009. <link>

Interview for the Austrian radio station Ö1, broadcast: „E-Doktor und Webpatient“, November 2008. <link>

Newspaper article in the newspaper Der Standard: „Wir sind nie modern gewesen“, March 2008. <link>

Co-organization of the international conference „Virtually Informed: The Internet as (New) Health Information Source“, 25-26 January 2008, Vienna (together with Ulrike Felt and Lisa Gugglberger).

Data provision for the govcom.org art piece „Infoid.org. The Web Issue Index of Civil Society“ shown in the exhibition „Making Things Public“, ZKM, Karlsruhe & in „La Casa Encendida“, Madrid (together with Richard Rogers, Zachary Devereaux & govcom.org team), 2006. <link>

Contact: astrid.mager [at] univie.ac.at