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Birgit Hofstätter

Birgit Hofstätter
Frauenforum Salzkammergut

Doctor of Philosophy

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Additional affiliations
March 2010 - present
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Position
  • External lecturer
October 2008 - July 2015
IFZ Graz
Position
  • Researcher

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Publications (42)
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With the design of digital media technologies becoming simple enough to be handled by children, it has also become easier to participate in media production. For many smartphone users it is a common routine to film and post videos on respective social media platforms. Others make use of digital media technologies to explicitly express themselves th...
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This contribution will give a first introduction to the term ‘queer’ and how it is relevant to science and technology studies (STS). In a broader sense, ‘queer’ stands for questioning hegemony and the labeling of identity; most popular is its use in the context of sexuality. Similarly to the emergence of the gender studies from women’s studies, que...
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English: In order to illustrate the production of gender knowledge (Geschlechterwissen) in scientific research, this paper draws on recent discussions in Gender/Queer Studies. Following a queer perspective, the article focuses on the reproduction of marginalized/hegemonic positions and normalizations in brain research, which, in the last two decade...
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Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung (Science Technology and Society Studies, STS) haben dazu beigetragen, die Entstehung von Wissen und Innovationen zu entmystifizieren (Bammé 2009). Aka-demische Normen und Karrierelogiken, organisationale und politische Rahmenbedingungen, gesellschaftliche Diskussionen und wissen-schaftspolitische Steuerungsmechan...
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In the 2021 edition of Queer STS Forum we collected experiences with queer interventions in education, academia, radio etc. – queer in the broadest sense of the term. These interventions happened in/through teaching, art and research. They posed the question of how to treat each other, how to become an inclusive and caring community, or how to tack...
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In our first issue of the Queer STS Forum we reflected on our queer approach to Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS). We shared how we often find ourselves intervening in meetings, in our social media activities and university courses, during conferences, and when we do research. Most of the time, the main topics we deal with do not direct...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world as we knew it and affected all parts of our lives and societies. Nobody can say that their everyday life was untouched by the measures taken since spring 2020 by governments following the advent of the virus. This fifth issue of the Queer STS forum is a reflection of these turbulent times and takes the co...
Technical Report
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Mit ihrem Förderprogramm „Talente Regional“ bringt die Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG) Schulen, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft zusammen, um jungen Menschen Einblicke in Forschung und Entwicklung zu ermöglichen. Mit Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie (BMVIT) finanziert die FFG Projekte, die Sch...
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In zwei empirischen Schritten zeichnet diese Arbeit nach, wie Rezipient*innen kommerziell erfolgreicher (Mainstream-)Medienproduktionen ihrerseits kreativ/produktiv werden und sich damit in Diskurse um Werte und Normen – in diesem Fall in Bezug auf Geschlecht und Sexualität – einbringen und wie diese Kreativität für eine emanzipatorische Medienbild...
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Mit dem partizipativen Technik-Bildungsprojekt "Engineer Your Sound!" wurde 2008/2009 die von Anita Thaler und Isabel Zorn entwickelte Vehikel-Theorie (vgl. Thaler, Zorn 2009) in einem Pilotversuch getestet. Dieser Ansatz schlägt vor, dass für die Vermittlung von technischen und na-turwissenschaftlichen Inhalten zentrale Jugendinteressen als "Vehik...
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Science, mathematics, computing, and engineering are the fields where women PhD graduates are still outnumbered by men. This is true for most of the EU-27 countries, and it is still the case in Austria. However in the last decade, the number of female PhD graduates in engineering and computing has increased at a faster pace than the number of male...
Technical Report
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Das Projekt GISAlab_MädchenLaborfürKunstundWissenschaft ist eine Kooperation des Vereins kunst ost, des UniGraz@Museum und der Pädagogischen Hochschule Steiermark und richtet sich an Mädchen ab 10 Jahren. Ziel von GISAlab ist es, Mädchen bei der Entdeckung und Entwicklung von Interessen und Fähigkeiten in Bezug auf Naturwissenschaften und Technik z...
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This work-in-progress paper will provide insights into two educational research projects that are currently conducted by a research group at IFZ. Both projects use youth interests as a vehicle to the acquisition of technological competence [1, 2, 3]. One of them – useITsmartly – seeks to make adolescents aware of the environmental consequences of I...
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Technische Berufe bieten gute Zukunftsaussichten, trotzdem beklagt der Techniksektor immer wieder einen Mangel an entsprechenden Fachkräften. In Österreich liegt der Anteil von Naturwissenschafter*innen und Techniker*innen am Gesamtarbeitsmarkt unter dem EU-Durchschnitt, es gäbe also noch Potenzial. Dennoch wählen Jugendliche zu selten technische B...
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In welcher Weise nutzen Rezipient*innen von (Massen-)Medienprodukten Medientechnologien für den Zugang und die Teilhabe an einem öffentlichen, politischen Diskurs über Geschlechter und Sexualitäten? Und wie lässt sich diese Form der aktiven Rezeption in formellen Bildungskontexten als pädagogisches und didaktisches Instrument für die Förderung medi...
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Wir, die wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgruppe Queer STS, beschäftigen uns mit Science and Technology Studies (Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung) aus queerer Perspektive. Gerade weil mit ‚queer‘ und ‚Queerness‘ vielfältige Definitionen und Konnotationen verbunden sind, wollen wir unser eigenes Verständnis davon formulieren, das einen wissenschaftlichen...
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The project GISAlab (Girls in Science and Art) is a cooperation of the art association kunst ost, of UniGraz@Museum and the University of Teacher Education Styria. It is intended for girls at the age of 10 and older. The objective of GISAlab is to support girls in discovering and developing their fascination and skills in regard to science and tech...
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Dieses Konzept basiert auf einer Idee und einem didaktischen Konzept, das im Rahmen des Projekts "Engineer Your Sound. Partizipative Technikgestaltung am Beispiel Musik. Beteiligung von SchülerInnen an der Entwicklung didaktischer Konzepte zur interdisziplinären Technikentwicklung" entstand und im Rahmen von Lehrveranstaltungen von den beiden Autor...
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Geschlechtergerechte Technikdidaktik orientiert sich an den Grundsätzen guter Erwachsenenbildung (vgl. Arnold et al. 2010, S. 11 ff.; Gruber 2001, S. 393; Siebert 2003). Dieser vorliegende Buchbeitrag verfolgt insbesondere das Ziel, mithilfe guter Technikdidaktik den Zugang zu Technikbildung und infolge dessen die Partizipation an Technologieprozes...
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The international success of the “The Twilight Saga”, a series of novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer and their film adaptions, was the motive for taking a closer look at the franchise from a certain pedagogical perspective: What do teenagers potentially learn about gender and sexuality from this story? The vampire theme would lend itself...
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When coming across the topics of gender and comparisons between men and women in everyday life, discussions mostly revolve around differences. Despite the wide range of explanations, aspects of evolutional and biological differences are regarded as highly legitimate explaining gender differences in debates on the street, in public, and in various s...
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Women-only engineering education seems to be a paradoxical but working approach to gain gender equity in engineering (Wetterer 2003, Dahmen 2005). However, single-sex education enables students – here: women – to focus on learning aloof from gender hierarchies. This is especially important in en-gendered fields like technology (Wajcman 2000, Wächte...
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Women-only engineering education seems to be a paradoxical but working approach to gain gender equity in engineering (Wetterer 2003, Dahmen 2005). However, single-sex education enables students – here: women – to focus on learning aloof from gender hierarchies. This is especially important in en-gendered fields like technology (Wajcman 2000, Wächte...
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On the occasion of the 10th IAS-STS Conference “Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies” researchers and students dealing with gender aspects in their work and studies came together for a workshop to discuss the concept of heteronormativity and how to deal with it. This paper will first provide a brief introduction given at the beginning...
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Das monoedukative HTL-Kolleg in Graz bildet seit Herbst 2008 im Rahmen eines zweijährigen Kollegs arbeitssuchende Frauen mit Matura im Bereich Maschinenbauingenieurwesen aus. Um die Wirksamkeit dieser Ausbildung erfassen und bereits während des Projekts intervenieren zu können, wurden die Autorinnen dieses Papers vom AMS mit einer prozessbegleitend...
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In the context of the project ‘Engineer Your Sound!’ (EYS; 2008–2009) funded by ‘Sparkling Science’, a program of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, three high school students and their technical coach, a sound engineer, developed an ‘air piano’ based on the Nintendo® Wii technology. This article, written by the students togethe...
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The workshop concept presented in this paper was developed in the context of the project "Picture.it – Young people develop and design gender sensitive pictures of people and technology. A participatory technology research project to compile a non-sexist image database" (2009-2010), funded by the program Sparkling Science of the Austrian Federal Mi...
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The first Austrian mono-educational program in engineering, a technical college course in Graz, was implemented in autumn of 2008 and is training women who graduated from high school, in mechanical engineering. In order to record the efficacy of this education and to intervene during the project, the authors of this paper have been entrusted with a...
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Obwohl Technik im Leben vieler Menschen eine zentrale Rolle spielt (vor allem Mobiltelefon und Computer bzw. Internet) wird dieser zukunftsstarke Bereich von Jugendlichen noch zu selten als potentielles Berufsfeld betrachtet. Das Projekt Engineer Your Sound! (EYS) knüpft an ein grundlegendes Interesse für kreative Technikgestaltung und -anwendung a...

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