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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Bits & Bäume is approaching. The programme has been updated (see here). Our befriended organisation Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) belongs to the panel of supporters. The Conference is funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) and co-funded…
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The online workshop “Habitual Behavior: Habits, Routines and Rituals” took place on August 26 and was organized by Raffaela Giovagnoli (Pontifical Lateran University, GSIS) and Irena Mostowicz (GSIS). This event is inspired by the interesting discussion that took place at…
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The Club of Vienna invites to an event on the thinking of Ivan Illich. Illich has become famous because of his term “conviviality” used in his 1973 book with the title “Tools for Conviviality” – a criticism of current civilisation.…
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End of July 2022, our project to contribute to the APCC Special Report on Structures for climate-friendly living terminated successfully. The final version of Chapter 20 on Media discourses and media structures was delivered to the Austrian Panel on Climate…
The latest FIfF Kommunikation is out. The journal of the German Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) is another time devoted to Artificial Intelligence. GSIS Emergent Systems Group co-head Hans-Jörg Kreowski contributed one article on a livable…
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Hans-Jörg Kreowski, retired Professor of Theoretical Informatics at the University of Bremen, prepared together with Christian Heck from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) a short talk on planned autonomous weapons like drones for the Congress with the title…
New Explorations journal is a revival of the journal Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, created in 1953 by Marshall McLuhan and Ted Carpenter. The new journal is run by Robert K. Logan, McLuhan expert, information scientist and systems thinker, who is Member…
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