On the occasion of the 2025 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI), our Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group – which is also an IS4SI Special Interest Group – invites to an event to be held online 2-15 June 2025 and/or in-person in Varna, Bulgaria, 23-30 June 2025:

SOCIAL INFORMATION GATHERINGS 2025 (SIG 2025)

The objective is to gather scientific communities and researchers for the discussion of topics that focus on information, on information technologies and on information society from a social and human sciences perspective that allows a critical stance on the state of the world. Social information is a term that signifies all information processes and their results in the human realm. They comprise cognitive, communicative and co-operative activities and actions of human agents, be they single or collective actors. Understanding these social information processes and structures is key to the transformation to convivial societies, a sustainable civilisation on our planet and meaningful technologies.

The SIG 2025 comprises the following Tracks:

• ICT in Military Affairs. Together with FORUM COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
  Due to illness and too few submissions this online workshop (Bremen) scheduled for 14 June 2025 had to be cancelled
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• Globalization, Social Information and Social Epistemology. Together with INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY RESEARCH, INSTITUTE OF STATE GOVERNANCE RESEARCH and SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  Online only (Wuhan). 13 June 2025
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• Generative Aspects of Noise. Together with WORKSHOP ON THE GENERATIVE ASPECTS OF NOISE 2025 (GAN-2025)
  In-person (Varna). 23-25 June 2025
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• AI Generating New Habits. Critical Reflections. Together with THE INSTITUTE FOR A GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE INFORMATION SOCIETY (GSIS)
  Hybrid (Vienna). 2-3 June 2025
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• Mapping the Information Understanding. Together with glossaLAB WORKSHOP
  Online only. 12 June 2025
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Publications will depend on the decision of each Track. For the common proceedings, a short paper publication will cost € 43,20 and needs to be paid by the authors.

(Updated 11 June 2025)