ARTIIS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences, and concerns from several perspectives of Technologies, Information, Innovation, and Sustainability. The conference was held in a hybrid format, with…
The last part of the publication projects of the 4th conference of Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft has just been published by the International Journal of Communication. How does who owns the media shape what we see, read, and believe? Property is a…
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We welcome Kurt Bayer’s Commentary as a befriended website of GSIS. Economist Kurt Bayer served as expert at our Utopia(s) Reloaded talks in 2023. Find here his interview on “How can climate justice be executed?” (https://vimeo.com/896184065). Kurt maintains a blog…
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The Digital Humanism TU Wien Lecture Series reminds us of next week’s talk: Tuesday, February 4, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. (17:00) Central European Time (UTC+1) Topic: “Misinformation and Social Media as a Historical Process: Insights from the American Experience”(scroll down for abstract…
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Communication and Capital(ism) Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 28-30 August 2025Mid-term conference of the European Sociological Association,Research Network 18 – The Sociology of Communications and Media Research The small-scale and focused mid-term conferences of the European Sociological…
Two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein and former Manhattan Project scientists, established the Doomsday Clock. Every year since then the state of the world had been assessed. Setting the minute…
The latest issue of FIfF Kommunikation, the German journal in the field of informatics and society, issued by the Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibilty (FIfF) in December 2024, focusses again on the topic of AI. Hans-Jörg Kreowski…
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Political Economies of the Media. Theories and Methods, an advanced postgraduate course. Šibenik, Croatia, 9 – 12 September 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Micky Lee, Suffolk University, USAMandy Troeger, University of Tuebingen, Germany COURSE DIRECTORS Thomas Allmer, Paderborn University,…
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Our Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos co-authors with Giannis Perperidis a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management. This more than 500 pages volume was published on 23 December 2024 in London (imprint 2025). Chapter 26 is On the…
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Peter Brandt (son of Willy Brandt), Dieter Segert and Gert Weisskirchen edited last year a more than 500 pages volume on that question. Based on it, Dieter Segert will hold a lecture at the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V.*…
