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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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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