Papers by Sarah Maria Schönbauer
Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 2021
As part of their socialization, scientists acquire the skills and know-how of the job and become ... more As part of their socialization, scientists acquire the skills and know-how of the job and become part of a scientific community, its norms and values. Becoming part of a scientific community also involves that scientists adapt to its emotional culture. Emotional relationships, specifically the concept of passionate work, represent important repertoires in and for academia especially considering academic identities. In light of precarious employments and unstable academic futures, the researchers emotional relationships with their profession are tenuous. I accordingly ask: what role does passion have in scientists’ narrations of work experiences? And how does this play out in researchers’ identities? Based on interviews with biologists, I analyse how the scientists narrate passionate tales and explore how they recount their past and how they imagine a future generation of scientists. Specifically, I analyse the scientists’ stories of the past as productive for a particular rationale ...
Supplemental material, sj-jpg-2-scx-10.1177_10755470211030519 for A Risky Object? How Microplasti... more Supplemental material, sj-jpg-2-scx-10.1177_10755470211030519 for A Risky Object? How Microplastics Are Represented in the German Media by Sarah Schönbauer and Ruth Müller in Science Communication
Supplemental material, sj-jpg-1-scx-10.1177_10755470211030519 for A Risky Object? How Microplasti... more Supplemental material, sj-jpg-1-scx-10.1177_10755470211030519 for A Risky Object? How Microplastics Are Represented in the German Media by Sarah Schönbauer and Ruth Müller in Science Communication
10:10 Introduction Brigitte Steger, Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge Seeing plastics: a ... more 10:10 Introduction Brigitte Steger, Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge Seeing plastics: a visual analysis of the problematisation of plastics in the campaign ‘Jute instead of plastic’ 1978 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) Charlotte Bruns & Matthias Sommer, Sociology of Visual Communication and Media, Chemnitz University of Technology Naum Gabo: Inherent Vice Robert Newton, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 10:40 to 11:00 --Coffee break-11:00 to 12:30 Public discourse/health and other risks 11:00
As part of their socialization, scientists acquire the skills and know-how of the job and become ... more As part of their socialization, scientists acquire the skills and know-how of the job and become part of a scientific community, its norms and values. Becoming part of a scientific community also involves that scientists adapt to its emotional culture. Emotional relationships, specifically the concept of passionate work, represent important repertoires in and for academia especially considering academic identities. In light of precarious employments and unstable academic futures, the researchers emotional relationships with their profession are tenuous. I accordingly ask: what role does passion have in scientists’ narrations of work experiences? And how does this play out in researchers’ identities? Based on interviews with biologists, I analyse how the scientists narrate passionate tales and explore how they recount their past and how they imagine a future generation of scientists. Specifically, I analyse the scientists’ stories of the past as productive for a particular rationale ...
Methodological Reflections on Practice Oriented Theories, 2017
Meetings resemble one of the core components of standard scientific practices in the life of biol... more Meetings resemble one of the core components of standard scientific practices in the life of biologists. By identifying meetings as a vantage point, I discuss a twofold of concerns. First, I make sense of meetings as a practice, enacting forms of how scientists are together in time and space and second, I scrutinise how one’s former belonging as a practitioner of the field of study can hamper or advance a practice-based sense making. Therefore, I will take meetings as point of crystallisation to critically reflect on the methodological implications of a practice-based ethnography.
Science as Culture, 2020
ABSTRACT In today's research environments, scientists have to meet competitive demands in ord... more ABSTRACT In today's research environments, scientists have to meet competitive demands in order to pursue a career successfully. Such demands are tangible including the need to move abroad, publish, or win third-party grants. Simultaneously, researchers experience an increasingly individualized and competitive work environment and a lack of collective working relationships. Many scientists in academia have difficulty coping with these demands. There is a need for spaces that allow scientists to cope with today's work life challenges. Two leisure groups on an Austrian science campus – a theatre and an orchestra group – are examples of spaces enabling practices to cope with the demands of academia. By acting and playing music, scientists can relate work and leisure. Through their participation, the scientists not only make room for leisure time in their work life but also construct a professional ideal of a creative and communally oriented scientist and establish a feeling of belonging to a place and its shared history. By aligning work and leisure outside of the laboratory, the leisure group members cope with their individualized and competitive work environment. Thereby, the scientists compensate for the lack of social and creative interaction and build a communally oriented, non-hierarchical, and a creative space in academia.
Science Communication, 2021
Microplastics are increasingly populating the environment and human and nonhuman bodies. Their pr... more Microplastics are increasingly populating the environment and human and nonhuman bodies. Their presence has invoked concerns about potential environmental and health effects, resulting in increasing research and media reporting. Here, we explore how the German print media reported on microplastics between 2004 and 2018. We find three distinct phases of reporting in which microplastics are introduced, stabilized, and destabilized as a “risk object.” We show that different attributions of risk go hand in hand with divergent assessments of who is responsible for risk management and argue that media cycles of affirming and contesting risk might undermine public trust in scientific findings.
Science and technology studies, 2018
Reputation building and visibility represent pressing requirements for living and working in acad... more Reputation building and visibility represent pressing requirements for living and working in academia today. These demands have been key to the corporate world and are acted upon through ‘branding’ practices. ‘Branding’ has further been shown to impact on employees and workplace identities. In academia, researching identity work is especially important because of a competitive funding climate that requires research groups to resemble an outstanding image and reputation. At the same time, stable jobs are scarce, bringing forth insecure and volatile environments characterized for example by temporary limited contracts and required internationalisation in scienti c careers. Based on ethnographic work in globally recognized life science departments, I explore how individual and departmental identities relate. Thereby, I propose the concept of ‘enrolling’, that conveys how a research unit acts as a ‘brand’, and show how ‘enrolling practices’ produces stability through coherence and disti...
Phosphorylierung und Dephosphorylierung von Proteinen reprasentieren wichtige Modifizie-rungen in... more Phosphorylierung und Dephosphorylierung von Proteinen reprasentieren wichtige Modifizie-rungen in intrazellularen Signalkaskaden, welche fur die Aktivierung und Deaktivierung der jeweiligen Proteine verantwortlich sind. Eine der haufigsten Serin/Threonin Phosphatasen, PP2A, Protein Phosphatase 2A, erfullt dabei eine wichtige Rolle in der Zellzyklusregulation, im programmierten Zelltod sowie in Signaltransduktionswegen. Heterotrimere Holoenzyme repra-sentieren dabei das aktive und spezifische PP2A, welches wiederum sehr genau reguliert werden muss um die Interaktion mit verschiedenen Substraten bewerkstelligen zu konnen. Unterschied-liche Studien verdeutlichten bereits, dass sowohl Phosphorylierung als auch Methylierung wich-tige Modifikationen fur die Funktion von PP2A darstellen. PTPA, der Phosphtase 2 A Phosphatase Aktivator, wurde ursprunglich als Aktivator der in vitro Phosphotyrosin Phosphatase Aktivitat von PP2A identifiziert [Cayla et al, 1990]. Zusatzlich zeigten Fellner und...
Microplastics are increasingly populating the environment and human and nonhuman bodies. Their pr... more Microplastics are increasingly populating the environment and human and nonhuman bodies. Their presence has invoked concerns about potential environmental and health effects, resulting in increasing research and media reporting. Here, we explore how the German print media reported on microplastics between 2004 and 2018. We find three distinct phases of reporting in which microplastics are introduced, stabilized, and destabilized as a "risk object." We show that different attributions of risk go hand in hand with divergent assessments of who is responsible for risk management and argue that media cycles of affirming and contesting risk might undermine public trust in scientific findings.
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
Plastic is slowly covering the earth, accumulating in oceans, soil, air, and human and non-human ... more Plastic is slowly covering the earth, accumulating in oceans, soil, air, and human and non-human bodies. In the face of this catastrophe, zero waste activists call upon us for action, detailing, how we, too, can change our lifestyle to eliminate plastic waste and save the planet. Yet, who it is that is called upon, who speaks, and whose voices and lived realities might be ignored? In this contribution, we explore the social politics of the zero waste movement. This leads us to ponder: might popular environmental movements that relegate social justice to the back seat ultimately do more harm than good?
Science & Technology Studies
Reputation building and visibility represent pressing requirements for living and working in acad... more Reputation building and visibility represent pressing requirements for living and working in academia today. These demands have been key to the corporate world and are acted upon through ‘branding’ practices. ‘Branding’ has further been shown to impact on employees and workplace identities. In academia, researching identity work is especially important because of a competitive funding climate that requires research groups to resemble an outstanding image and reputation. At the same time, stable jobs are scarce, bringing forth insecure and volatile environments characterized for example by temporary limited contracts and required internationalisation in scientific careers. Based on ethnographic work in globally recognized life science departments, I explore how individual and departmental identities relate. Thereby, I propose the concept of ‘enrolling’, that conveys how a research unit acts as a ‘brand’, and show how ‘enrolling practices’ produces stability through coherence and dist...
Science as Culture, 2020
In today's research environments, scientists have to meet competitive demands in order to pursue ... more In today's research environments, scientists have to meet competitive demands in order to pursue a career successfully. Such demands are tangible including the need to move abroad, publish, or win third-party grants. Simultaneously, researchers experience an increasingly individualized and competitive work environment and a lack of collective working relationships. Many scientists in academia have difficulty coping with these demands. There is a need for spaces that allow scientists to cope with today's work life challenges. Two leisure groups on an Austrian science campus – a theatre and an orchestra group – are examples of spaces enabling practices to cope with the demands of academia. By acting and playing music, scientists can relate work and leisure. Through their participation, the scientists not only make room for leisure time in their work life but also construct a professional ideal of a creative and communally oriented scientist and establish a feeling of belonging to a place and its shared history. By aligning work and leisure outside of the laboratory, the leisure group members cope with their individualized and competitive work environment. Thereby, the scientists compensate for the lack of social and creative interaction and build a communally oriented, non-hierarchical, and a creative space in academia.
Science & Technology Studies, 2019
Reputation building and visibility represent pressing requirements for living and working in acad... more Reputation building and visibility represent pressing requirements for living and working in academia today. These demands have been key to the corporate world and are acted upon through ‘branding’ practices. ‘Branding’ has further been shown to impact on employees and workplace identities. In academia, researching identity work is especially important because of a competitive funding climate that requires research groups to resemble an outstanding image and reputation. At the same time, stable jobs are scarce, bringing forth insecure and volatile environments characterized for example by temporary limited contracts and required internationalisation in scientific careers. Based on ethnographic work in globally recognized life science departments, I explore how individual and departmental identities relate. Thereby, I propose the concept of ‘enrolling’, that conveys how a research unit acts as a ‘brand’, and show how ‘enrolling practices’ produces stability through coherence and distinctiveness in individual and collective identities. My analysis thus allows a critical reflection on academia and the re-orderings in today´s universities that create pervasive demands for living and working
Marine Coastal Cultures, 2019
Books by Sarah Maria Schönbauer
Methodological Reflections on Practice Oriented Theories, 2017
Meetings resemble one of the core components of standard scientific practices in the life of biol... more Meetings resemble one of the core components of standard scientific practices in the life of biologists. By identifying meetings as a vantage point, I discuss a twofold of concerns. First, I make sense of meetings as a practice, enacting forms of how scientists are together in time and space and second, I scrutinise how one’s former belonging as a practitioner of the field of study can hamper or advance a practice-based sense making. Therefore, I will take meetings as point of crystallisation to critically reflect on the methodological implications of a practice-based ethnography.
Conference Presentations by Sarah Maria Schönbauer
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Books by Sarah Maria Schönbauer
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