3-7 June 2015 the fifth conference of the ICTs-and-Society Network took place as part of the International Society for Information Studies (since 2017 International Society for the Study of Information) Summit Vienna 2015, chaired by Wolfgang Hofkirchner who was its…
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From 2010 to 2014, the UTI Research Group carried out a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund. Co-ordinator was Christian Fuchs, Professor at the University of Westminster (second from the left). Co-worker were (from the right) PhD students Thomas…
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2-4 May 2012 the fourth conference of the ICTs-and-Society Network was held with the support of the Swedish Research Council at Uppsala University, organised by Christian Fuchs, then Professor at Uppsala University, and Marisol Sandoval (see photo above), both Board…
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This project was carried out from 2001 to 2004 at the Vienna University of Technology (Co-ordinator and Austrian team leader: Wolfgang Hofkirchner) together with three other teams from Russia (Synergetics Group at the Institute of Philosophy at the Russian Academy of…
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