TATuP Special topic in issue 35/2 (2026), submit your abstract by 18 July 2025.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: "Exploring technologies through imaginary worlds: At the intersection of science fiction & technology assessment"This TATuP Special topic explores practices of care in the assessment of technologies and their contribution to sustainability transformations. It directs attention to the socio-ecological transformation processes that must align with the political institutions and the production and
lifestyles in industrial capitalism.
TATuP Special topic in issue 35/1 (2026), Submit your abstract by 11 April 2025
Read more about Call for Abstracts: "Technology assessment and future warfare: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"Conditions, consequences and practices of sustainable materials
Read more about New TATuP issue: "Material transitions in architecture and construction: Social implications, appropriation, and outcomes for sustainability"TATuP Special topic, issue 34/3 (2025)
Submit your Abstract by 10 January 2025.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: In search of deeply sustainable technologies: Beyond extractivism, exploitation and exclusionHow can technology assessment help prevent the misuse of technology to promote radicalization and terrorist violence? The current TATuP Special topic seeks to put issues of malevolent creativity and civil security on the TA map.
Read more about New TATuP issue: "Malevolent creativity and civil security: The ambivalence of emergent technologies"TATuP Special topic in issue 34/2 (2025), Submit your abstract by 12 August 2024
Read more about Call for Abstracts: "Beyond short-termism: Strategies and perspectives for the long-term governance of socio-technical change"TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice is looking for guest editors for future TATuP Special topics!
Read more about Call for Special topic guest editorsWhether for steering vehicles, making medical diagnoses, or supporting the courts – increasingly far-reaching decisions are in the hands of artificial intelligence. The current TATuP Special topic asks about the consequences.
Read more about New TATuP issue “AI for decision support: What are possible futures, social impacts, regulatory options, ethical conundrums and agency constellations?"TATuP-Special topic in issue 34/1 (2025): Deadline: 29 April 2024
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “Practices and concepts of 'care' in sustainability transformations. Critical perspectives in technology assessment“This TATuP Special topic collects research articles discussing ‘hypes’ and ‘overpromising’, extending from false claims to inappropriate exaggerations, whether intentional or not. The aim is to support a deeper understanding of hyping language and practices and its underlying dynamics and mechanisms. Hype shall be transformed from a buzzword to a reflected and applicable working concept for different fields and constellations of technology assessment (TA).
Read more about New TATuP Special topic “Technology hype: Dealing with bold expectations and overpromising”TATuP Special topic in 33/3 (2024). Deadline: 05 February 2024
Read more about Call for Abstracts: "The material transition in architecture and construction. Social, economic, spatial and cultural implications and appropriation processes"TATuP Special topic in issue 2, 2024. Extended Deadline: 22. September 2023.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “The ambivalence of emergent technologies: Malevolent creativity and civil security”Sudden and prolonged crises pose new challenges for technology assessment. The question of how TA can react more quickly in the future and at the same time provide sound information is the subject of the Special topic in the new issue of TATuP.
Read more about New TATuP issue “Potentials of technology assessment in sudden and enduring crises”What role do computer models and AI applications play in policy decisions? And what are the consequences for the work on technology assessment? The current TATuP special topic focuses on these questions.
Read more about New TATuP issue “Modeling for policy”TATuP Special topic in issue 1, 2024. Deadline: 02. Mai 2023.
Read more about Call for Abstracts "AI for decision support: What are possible futures, social impacts, regulatory options, ethical conundrums and agency constellations?"From the perspective of many scientists, important decisions regarding the storage of radioactive waste must be made as soon as possible. The Research articles in the current issue of TATuP take an interdisciplinary approach to issues surrounding the siting of radioactive waste.
Read more about New TATuP issue “The future of radioactive waste disposal”TATuP-Special topic in Volume 31, Issue 3 (2023). Deadline: 03 February 2023.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: "Assessing the (de)construction of technological hypes"TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice invites you to submit proposals for future TATuP Special topics (deadline 31 January 2023).
Read more about Call for Special topic editorsTATuP Special topic in issue 2, 2023. Extended deadline: 12 October 2022.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: "Potentials of TA in sudden and enduring crises"Can modern societies get by with less energy than before? The current TATuP issue looks at the opportunities offered by the sufficiency concept and scenarios for lower energy consumption.
Read more about New TATuP issue “Energy sufficiency”As a “pioneer of inter- and transdisciplinarity,” technology assessment plays an increasingly important role in academic teaching. What this development means for technology assessment (TA) is explored in the new issue of TATuP.
Read more about New TATuP issue “Technology assessment and higher education”TATuP Special Topic in issue 1/2023. Extended deadline 17 May 2022.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “Modeling for policy: Decision making with AI, models, and computer simulations – challenges for TA from new prognostic methods”TATuP-special topic in issue 3/2022. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 18 February 2022.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “The future of high-level radioactive waste disposal: What are the developments? What are the challenges after a site selection?”Artificial intelligence and big data are major topics in business, society, and science. TATuP explores ways to strengthen society’s understanding of AI and to shape the technology’s use in a meaningful way.
Read more about New TATuP issue “Designing and experiencing AI systems”TATuP, based at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), is currently in its 30th year of publication. Launched in 1992 as TA-Datenbank-Nachrichten, TATuP has evolved over the years into a peer-reviewed open access journal that today addresses an increasingly international audience.
Read more about 30 years of publication: TATuP celebrates anniversaryTATuP-special topic in issue 2/2022. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 30 September 2021
Read more about Call for Abstracts: "Energy sufficiency. Modelling and scenarios for less energy consumption"Today, DNA sequencing is part of the standard repertoire of biological and medical research. However, the abundance and quality of the data obtained pose challenges for society and science. These are topics of the new TATuP issue.
Read more about New TATuP issue on “Next generation sequencing”TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice invites you to submit proposals for future TATuP Special Topics (deadline 01 October 2021).
Read more about Call for Special Topic EditorsTATuP-special topic in issue 1/2022. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 12 May 2021
Read more about Call for Abstracts: „Technology Assessment and (Higher) Education: Theories, Applications and Concepts “Although often called for, urban transformation is a long time coming. The new TATuP issue explores how integrative approaches that combine smart technologies with social innovations could make European cities more sustainable.
Read more about New TATuP issue on “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities in Europe”TATuP-special topic in issue 3/2021. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 22 February 2021
Read more about Call for Abstracts: "Designing, shaping and experiencing AI systems. Concepts, values, applications“A close connection to democratic societies has always been a characteristic of technology assessment. So how should TA deal with the current crisis of democracy? The authors of the current TATuP are looking for answers.
Read more about New TATuP issue on “Democracy and Technology Assessment”Digitalization allows networks for energy, mobility, and information to be linked ever more closely. How these “converging infrastructures” can be used for social transformation is addressed in the current TATuP.
Read more about New TATuP issue on “Converging Infrastructures”TATuP-special topic in issue 1/2021. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 20 May 2020
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities in Europe”: Mission Statements, Paths, RisksModern societies depend on digital infrastructures and have to defend themselves against cyberattacks. The Special Topic of the current TATuP issue deals with the possibilities and risks of the employed technologies.
Read more about New TATuP issue on "Cybersecurity"TATuP-special topic in issue 3/2020. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 28 February 2020
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “Democracy and TA. Practical issues and conceptual consequences”How can the transformation to a climate-neutral energy system succeed? The contributions in TATuP 3/2019 address the question of how to generate and communicate knowledge about possible future paths.
Read more about New TATuP issue on Energy FuturesTATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice invites you to submit proposals for future TATuP Special Topics.
Read more about Call for Special TopicTATuP special topic in issue 2/2020. Deadline for submitting your abstract: November 29, 2019
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “Amplified sociotechnical problems in converging infrastructures”Information and communications technology (ICT) creates new opportunities, but also poses risks. The TATuP special topic in issue 2/2019 addresses specific challenges in the Global South and places TA of digitalization in a global context.
Read more about TATuP on Digitalization in the Global SouthTATuP-special topic in issue 1/2020. Deadline for your abstract: EXTENDED DEADLINE June 21, 2019
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “Cybersecurity”Technology assessment (TA) has to deal with the conflict between commitment and neutrality. The current TATuP issue 1/2019 questions the myth of neutrality in TA and wants to further the debate on its normative aspects.
Read more about TATuP on Normativity in TATATuP-special topic in issue 3/2019. Deadline for your abstract: March 19, 2019
Read more about Call for Abstracts: „Energy futures: to know, to advise and to shape“Unmanned and increasingly autonomous flight systems conquer the airspace. TATuP 3/2018 deals with possible paths of technology development, its actors, and the need for a legal framework for current and future fields of application.
Read more about TATuP on civilian and military dronesTATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis invites you to submit proposals for future TATuP-Special Topics.
Read more about Call for Special TopicTATuP special topic in issue 2/2019. Submission of your abstract until 25 October 2018.
Read more about Call for Abstracts: “Digitalisation and Development in the Global South. Progress by Technology?”Blessing or curse for a sustainable mobility system? In its current issue 2/2018, the Journal on Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice examines the societal, social, and ecological aspects of self-driving cars.
Read more about TATuP on automated drivingTATuP-topic 1/2019 discusses the normative basis of TA. Extended deadline until 16 Juli 2018!
Read more about Call for Abstracts „Normativity in Technology Assessment“TATuP THEME 3/2018 is about unmanned aircrafts. Abstracts will be accepted until 8 April 2018.
Read more about Call for Abstracts „Drones and the tension between military and civil applications“The current issue builds a bridge from technology assessment (TA) to agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS).
Read more about TATuP26/3 (2017) “Technology – Consequences – Simulated” publishedSorry, there is no English version availible.
Read more about Call for Papers „Automatisiertes Fahren: Fluch oder Segen für nachhaltige Mobilität?“and strengthen your field of research in the debates on technology assessment!
Read more about Be the editor of a TATuP-THEME...Die erste Ausgabe nach dem Relaunch beschäftigt sich aus Perspektive der Technikfolgenabschätzung mit den Risiken und Potenzialen einer offenen Wissenschaft.
Read more about Ausgabe 26/1-2 (2017): “Open Science zwischen Hype und Disruption” erschienenThe new TATuP edition 1/2018 will be on “A Theory of TA”. Abstracts can be submitted by the 15th of June 2017.
Read more about Call for Papers „Ten years after – Theory of TA reloaded“Sorry, there is no English version available.
Read more about Call for Papers for TATuP issue 3/2017Sorry, there is no English version available.
Read more about TATuP erscheint ab 2017 im oekom verlagSorry, there is no English version available.
Read more about TATuP 1–2/2017 with main topic “Open Science”TATuP Special topic in issue 35/2 (2026), submit your abstract by 18 July 2025.
This TATuP Special topic explores practices of care in the assessment of technologies and their contribution to sustainability transformations. It directs attention to the socio-ecological transformation processes that must align with the political institutions and the production and
lifestyles in industrial capitalism.
TATuP Special topic in issue 35/1 (2026), Submit your abstract by 11 April 2025
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