Jürgen HAMPEL, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Michael M. ZWICK, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Constanze STÖRK-BIBER, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Karolin TAMPE-MAI, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Jürgen HAMPEL, University of Stuttgart, Germany
In this symposium, we will present the basic concept and first results from TechnikRadar studies on perception of technologies in Germany.
The TechnikRadar is a joint project from acatech, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, the Körber-Stiftung and the Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation studies of the University of Stuttgart. It was established as a long-time observatory to end the lack of systematic empirical research about public perception of emerging and controversial technologies in Germany. The TechnikRadar does both, it provides time series data on public perception, and it studies attitudes towards focal technologies. In the recent years, the TechnikRadar was adressed to digitization, bioeconomy, biotechnology and digitization of health services.
Michael Zwick (University of Stuttgart) will introduce into the methodological concept of the TechnikRadar with its combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of social research and report on perception of bioeconomy, particularly the contrast between overall support for the general aims of bioeconomy and disapproval of its implementations.
Constanze Störk-Biber (Zirius, University of Stuttgart) will report on public perception of artificial meat. Food and in particular meat are intensely debated for a number of reseans, Critics claim negative health effects as well as negative environmental effects of the consumption of meat which is also criticized for ethical reasons. As an innovation from the field of biotechnology, cultured meat promises to address the problems of meat production mentioned afore and deliver an environmentally friendly and ethically sound way of meat production. Despite these hopes, the results fof the TechnikRadar show that scepticism is dominant in Germany.
Jürgen Hampel (Universiy of Stuttgart) addresses scientific and technical solutions to the lack of organ donations. Based on survey research and focus group, the presentations deals with the public perception of alternative ways to create organs for the implementation into humans: Organs from human donators are compared with xenotransplants and artificial organs created with stem cells, two alternatives, which are not yet available but are discussed as future opportunities.
Karolin Tampe-Mai (Zirius, University of Stuttgart) addresses, based on a media analysis and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, the problem, how digitization processes will affect the future of the German health system. Innovative options for IT-nets, mobile health apps and AI-based personalized diagnosis and therapies will transform the healthcare system and modify the traditional relations between physicians and their patients. Having done her fieldwork during the Covid19-pandemic, her research also allows to show the changes of the system occuring with regard to the digitization of the health care system as a consequence of the Covid19-pandemic.
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