Dr. Andreas Wenninger

Dr. Andreas Wenninger is a Research Coordinator at the bidt. He is responsible for the research area of “Communication, Society and Participation”. Since 2015, he has been a member of the DFG Research Group 2448 “Evidence Practices in Science, Medicine, Technology and Society”. From 2015-2019 he was a Research Associate at Technical University of Munich (Digital Media Lab of the Munich Centre for Technology in Society and at the Chair of Sociology of Science). Previously, he was a research assistant at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. He studied sociology, social psychology and philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich from 2000 to 2005. His research interests include science communication and social media, media and the public sphere, and participatory science/citizen science.

Selected Publications:

• Altmann, Kevin; Wenninger, Andreas (2023): Participation as Evidence Contestation. In: Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Karin Zachmann, Saana Jukola und Olga Sparschuh (Hg.): Evidence Contestation. New York: Routledge, S. 246–278. DOI: 10.4324/9781003273509-14.
• Wenninger, Andreas und Dickel, Sascha (2019): Paradoxien digital-partizipativer Wissenschaft. Zur sozio-epistemischen Grenzarbeit in Citizen Science und Wissenschaftsblogs. In: Österreich Zeitschrift für Soziologie 44 (Suppl 1), Sonderheft 19 Digitalization and Society, hrsg. von Christoph Musik und Alexander Bogner, S. 257–286. DOI: 10.1007/s11614-019-00357-0.
• Wenninger, Andreas (2019): Digitale Grenzkämpfe der Wissenschaft: Boundary-Work am Beispiel eines Blogportals (Dissertation). Springer VS: Wiesbaden. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-25298-4.
• Weingart, Peter; Wormer, Holger; Wenninger, Andreas; Hüttl, Reinhard F. (Hg.) (2017): Perspektiven der Wissenschaftskommunikation im digitalen Zeitalter. Velbrück GmbH Bücher und Medien. Weilerswist: Velbrück. DOI: 10.5771/9783748926672.
• Schirmer, Dominique; Sander, Nadine und Wenninger, Andreas (Hg.) (2015): Die qualitative Analyse internetbasierter Daten. Methodische Herausforderungen und Potenziale von Online-Medien. Springer VS. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-06296-5.