Franz Ofner, retired professor at University of Klagenfurt, Austria (also known as Alpen-Adria-Universität), sociologist, Member of our Institute, did research on the emergence of norms following George Herbert Mead (see here) and Jürgen Habermas. His latest article has been published…
The book is out. Find it here. Let me announce it: I finished the manuscript of my book before the new cold war turned hot, pushing humanity to the brink of a World War III. The heating of the planet,…
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This fifth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society series presents an approach to critical digital ethics. It develops foundations and applications of digital ethics based on critical theory. It applies a critical approach to ethics within the realm of…
The befriended Ernst-Bloch-Assoziation held an open conference on the topic of Bloch’s “Naturallianz/Allianztechnik”. Philosopher Bloch coined these terms to call for a new relationship of humans with nature to be practised by a new kind of technology. The venue was…
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The GSIS Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group – which is also a working group at the Leibniz Society of Science to Berlin e.V., Germany (LS) – organised, within the framework of the LS and together with the German…
After the first Bits & Bäume 2018, the second Bits & Bäume – The Conference for Digitization and Sustainability took place from September 30th to October 2nd, 2022 at the Technical University of Berlin. The topics covered all content at…
The world-wide challenges due to the COVID-19 virus have demonstrated the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and the need for management of information – two topics which have characterized the IDIMT conferences since their beginning in 1993. Soon after the fall…
A new book by Christian Fuchs, now Paderborn University, Germany. The publisher, Emerald, announces: Our contemporary global digital society is not always a good place to live. Authoritarianism, hatred, false news, post-truth culture, the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement, COVID-19 conspiracy theories,…
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The Communication, Capitalism and Critique ESA RN-18 mid-term conference 2022 took place at the Polytechnic of Turin from 1-3 September (conference website: https://rn18esa.wordpress.com). The event was co-organised by the European Sociological Association – Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media…
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These two topics were dealt with at the regular autumn meeting of the Institut für Design Science München in Wittenberg. This fifth meeting took place from 9 to 11 September 2022. Though, at a first glance, these topics (see programme)…
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