Rezensierte Publikationen: Christoph Kucklick, Die granulare Gesellschaft. Wie das Digitale unsere Wirklichkeit auflöst. Berlin: Ullstein 2015, 268 S., gb., 18,00 €. Deborah Lupton, Digital Sociology. London & New York: ...

Research persistently shows that women are underrepresented in most science and engineering fields and obtain fewer research grants than men. In this paper we consider gender-related interests to investigate female and ...

The visibility of individual scientists and their academic performance plays a major role in gaining the creditability to get funded and to advance in academic positions. Therefore, web presences are increasingly used to ...

Scheduled meetings are associated with standardization and understood as a bureaucratic form of coordination, control, and rule observation. In attending assemblies of a research team in optical physics for over a year, ...

Seit ihrer Geburtsstunde – grosso modo seit dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts – konstatiert die Soziologie eine immer stärkere funktionale Ausdifferenzierung der Gesellschaften (z.B. Durkheim 1893/2007; Simmel 1890/1992; Weber ...

Discussions about funding research grants by lottery have centered on weighing the pros and cons of peer review, but this focus does not fully account for how an idea comes across in the field of science to those researchers ...

Using peer review to assess the validity of research proposals has always had its fair share of critics, including a more-than-fair-share of scholars. The debate about this method of assessing these proposals now seems ...