Sonja Bettel studied Journalism and Communications at the University of Vienna. She has been working as a journalist for various media since 1983, focusing on the field of science and technology since the 1990s. She comprehensively discussed topics of communication, new media and Internet politics and their meaning for the unfolding of the individual and for the development of society for the TV magazines Modern Times (ORF) and Nano (3Sat) and the radio magazines Matrix (Ö1) and Breitband (Deutschlandradio Kultur).