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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The book “Klimasoziale Politik” (climate social politics) takes a critical look at climate and social policy developments in Austria in recent decades. It shows that the climate crisis is also a social crisis: the advancing climatic changes primarily have a…
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Under this title, some 160 people gathered on 19 June 2022 in Vienna for a peace conference that was convoked to accompany the TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) activities at the UN (see the announcement here). Spiritus…
On 19 June 2022, a peace event will accompany the 1st UN Conference of the Partner States of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna. This event is organised by the International Peace Bureau (IPB), the Aktionsbündnis…
“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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