On 18 December 2024 Annette Grathoff, Tomáš Sigmund and Liang Wang organised together with Lianfu Yan, Dean of the School of Marxism at the Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, a symposium on that topic. Annette and Tomáš were connected online, Liang…
The 33rd Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks are scheduled for 3-5 September 2025 again in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. For conference topics, important dates and contact click here. See the Call for Papers here. The conference is an Austrian-Czech co-operation led by Michael Sonntag…
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GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on a Convivial Society for All Who are we? A somewhat cultural and genetical attempt to cope with the polycrisis Currently we are experiencing a polycrisis in all major fields: political, ecological, social and financial. Societies are…
The Digital Humanism TU Wien team writes: The Digital Humanism Initiative issued a public statement in support of the EU AI Act in December 2023. Now we think it is time again to support the EU AI Act, as well as the Digital…
ARTIIS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences, and concerns from several perspectives of Technologies, Information, Innovation, and Sustainability. The conference was held in a hybrid format, with…
The last part of the publication projects of the 4th conference of Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft has just been published by the International Journal of Communication. How does who owns the media shape what we see, read, and believe? Property is a…
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We welcome Kurt Bayer’s Commentary as a befriended website of GSIS. Economist Kurt Bayer served as expert at our Utopia(s) Reloaded talks in 2023. Find here his interview on “How can climate justice be executed?” (https://vimeo.com/896184065). Kurt maintains a blog…
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The Digital Humanism TU Wien Lecture Series reminds us of next week’s talk: Tuesday, February 4, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. (17:00) Central European Time (UTC+1) Topic: “Misinformation and Social Media as a Historical Process: Insights from the American Experience”(scroll down for abstract…
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Communication and Capital(ism) Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 28-30 August 2025Mid-term conference of the European Sociological Association,Research Network 18 – The Sociology of Communications and Media Research The small-scale and focused mid-term conferences of the European Sociological…
Two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein and former Manhattan Project scientists, established the Doomsday Clock. Every year since then the state of the world had been assessed. Setting the minute…
