“Responsibility to protect” (R2P) was introduced to justify “humanitarian interventions”. In view of the age of global challenges, Wolfgang Hofkirchner proposes a new concept: the responsibility to protect all of humanity from annihilism. Annihilism is the explicit justification or trivialisation…
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2.5 days (from 12-14-5-2022), over 100 participants, 2 keynotes, 3 panel discussions and 44 lectures and workshops at the conference “Eigentum, Medien, Öffentlichkeit” (Property, Media, and the Public Sphere) of the Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft (Critical Communication Studies Network) at WU…
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That’s the title of an online workshop scheduled for 26 August 2022. This event is inspired by the interesting discussion that took place at the IS4SI Summit 2017 (Gothenburg), IS4SI Summit 2019 (Berkeley), IS4SI 2021 (online Japan). Habits and rituals…
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Our project glossaLAB organises an international workshop in Spain, 23-31 May 2022. See the programme here. Besides the project leaders Teresa Guarda and José María Díaz Nafría, our Members Tomáš Sigmund and Modestos Stavrakis are planned with several inputs. Sigmund…
It is clear that systems sciences are expected to come up with analyses and recommendations how to solve the crisis in the implementation of an inclusive security architecture for Europe and the world. Francisco Parra-Luna, sociologist and systems thinker, co-ordinated…
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This book tries to flesh out the second convivialist manifesto of the year 2020 and to imagine a post-neoliberal and post-growth future – “one that is attractive to an Italian worker, a Spanish peasant, a farmer in Senegal, an inhabitant…
The proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Information Summit in 2021 are available open access. Read the editorial by Marcin J. Schroeder and Mark Burgin. Browse the contributions to APC Philosophy and Computing DIGHUM Workshop on Digital…
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This conference for digitalisation and sustainability is the second one after 2018. It will take place this year from 30 September to 2 October in Berlin. 2,000 people are expected to participate. On panels, in workshops and open spaces, among…
Our befriended organisation Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) issued its quarterly FIfF-Kommunikation 1, 2022 (March). The title refers to the FIfF-Konferenz 2021.
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The Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie, Leipzig, invites to a podium with Sebastian Sevignani on 31 March 2022, 18:00. They write: Die algorithmische Zukunft der Medien – Wie digitale Medien und Algorithmen die Öffentlichkeit neu gestaltenIn dieser Podiumsdiskussion wollen wir der Frage…
