Hannes Wünsche

Hannes Wuensche was a doctoral researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute and at Fraunhofer FOKUS. He studied Chemistry and Science Studies at HU Berlin.

In his research, Hannes Wuensche investigates norms of digital participatory knowledge practices and their impact on valuation and quality of research results. His objects of interest are Citizen Science projects, which describe themselves as open-democratic forms of knowledge production, based on digital participation technologies. His perspective is located at the intersection of pragmatist democracy theory and sociology of scientific knowledge.