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Towards a Response-able Culture of Objectivity: Corona Discourses as Situated Knowledges

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr-Ing and Dr Corinna Bath, Smilla Ebeling

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Technische Universität Braunschweig

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Communication

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

This project will investigate how public science discourses about Sars-CoV 2 support shifts in knowledge politics towards a new culture of objectivity. Against the backdrop of the empirical findings of a discourse analysis of relevant German media contributions and following theoretical Science & Technology Studies approaches to objectivity, the project will develop a new, "response-able" culture of objectivity as one of its key results.