M.A. Dominic Lammar
Doktorand
Dominic Lammar ist seit 2022 Doktorand an der Munich School of Social Sciences and Technology. Seit 2026 ist er Teil des Munich Center for Transformative Technologies and Societal Change (TransforM), wo er im Projekt „Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Neuroscience“ arbeitet (PI: Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller, Co-PI: Associate Prof. Dr. Oliver Rollins). Von 2022 bis 2025 war er Mitglied der Fokusgruppe „Responsible Innovation Communication“. Dort untersuchte er die öffentliche Kommunikation über Künstliche Intelligenz in Deutschland anhand einer Medienanalyse sowie Interviews mit KIForschenden, um das deutsche Kommunikationsökosystem rund um KI besser zu verstehen.
Zuvor absolvierte Dominic einen Bachelorabschluss in Liberal Arts and Sciences in Freiburg und London sowie einen Masterabschluss in Science and Technology Studies an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
- Science and Technology Studies
- Wissenschaftskommunikation
- KI
- Critical Hype Studies
- Responsible Research and Innovation
- Diversität in den Neurowissenschaften
- 2022-2025: Responsible Innovation Communication Focus Group funded by the TUM Institute for Advanced Studies (https://www.ias.tum.de/ias/research-areas/political-social-and-technological-change/alumni-focus-groups/responsible-innovation-communication/)
- Since 2026: Munich Center for Transformative Technologies and Societal Change: Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Neuroscience. Cluster of Excellence.
- Lammar, Dominic, Maja Horst, and Ruth Müller. 2025. “AI in the German Media: Narratives of AI-in-Particular and AI-in-General in German Media Reporting About Artificial Intelligence.” Digital Journalism, May, 1–19. doi:10.1080/21670811.2025.2493759.
Speculating about Digital Futures: Unravelling future worlds through stories & science fiction. Immersion Project. Winter semester 2025/26.
This Immersion Project critically examines dominant narratives about the transformative potential of digital technologies. Students investigate how visions of “digital futures” shape present realities, influencing research priorities, regulations, and public perceptions. Through empirical analysis and creative speculation, the course explores alternative imaginaries—drawing on feminist science fiction—to reframe norms, values, and responsibilities embedded in digital innovation.
“Legal, Ethical, and Social Challenges of Biomedicine.” Seminar. Summer semester 2023, 2024, 2025.
This seminar examines the role of biomedicine in contemporary society and the social, political, and ethical questions raised by new biomedical knowledge and technologies. Through case studies on topics such as reproductive medicine, genetic diagnostics, and neurobiology, students will explore how emerging biomedical innovations shape concepts of health, risk, responsibility, and regulation. Designed for students in biomedicine and adjacent fields, the course fosters critical understanding of the societal implications, opportunities, and tensions surrounding biomedical advancements.
“Introduction to STS1”, Winter semester 2022/23; 2023/24.
This course is designed as a comprehensive introduction to familiarize first semester MA students in STS with a range of STS theories and concepts.
- “AI in the Media – Between Hope and Hype?” Guest lecture in the course “AI in and for Society: Science, Technology and Society in the Digital Age” by Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner. January 2025.
- “On Jokes and Boundaries: How Machine Learning Practitioners Navigate Hyped Expectations Through Memes”, co-held with Oksana Dorofeeva, Association of Internet Researchers Conference. University of Fluminense, Brazil, October 2025.
- “Laughing at or with hype? An analysis of AI hype memes,” Co-held with Oksana Dorofeeva, Critical Hype Studies Conference. University of Barcelona, August 2025.
- “Navigating Hype and Responsibility: Expectations in Communicating Medical AI,” 6th European Technology Assessment Conference (ETAC6), Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna, July 2025.
- “Playing with Futures: Using Game James to critically think through socio-ecological transformations,” with Clara Valdes Stauber and Amy Clare. STS Italia. Milan, June 2025.
- “From Hype to Responsibility: Navigating Expectations in Communicating Medical AI,” International Symposium on Responsible AI: Promises, Pitfalls, and Practices. Center for Responsible AI Technologies, Munich, April 2025.
- “AI in the German Media: Narratives of AI-in-Particular and AI-in-General in German Media Reporting about Artificial Intelligence,” Joint Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2024.
- “The German AI Communication Ecosystem: Tracing the Contested Meanings of an Emerging Technology in Public Debates,” Conference: Nowhere(to)land? What Science Studies Contribute to Science Communication. University of Bonn, Germany, June 2023.
Peer review for “The International Journal of Press/Politics”