The Digital Humanism TU Wien team writes: The Digital Humanism Initiative issued a public statement in support of the EU AI Act in December 2023. Now we think it is time again to support the EU AI Act, as well as the Digital…
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…
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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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.*…
On the occasion of the 2025 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI), our Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group – which is also an IS4SI Special Interest Group – invites to an event to…
GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on a Convivial Society for All Unser Mitglied Margarete Maurer hat einen Band zu diesem Thema fertiggestellt. Rosa Luxemburg war eine der wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten und DenkerInnen der Sozialdemokratie im beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert. Die deutsche kommunistische Partei gründete…
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In April 2024, mandelbaum published a more than 500 pages volume on critical peace research, edited by our Research Affiliate Josef Mühlbauer and Maximilian Lakitsch from the Institute of the Foundations of Law at the Department of Global Governance, University…
… am 17. November 2024 um 10:00 Uhr. Der Film ist 3 Tage davor und 90 Tage danach in der SRF Mediathek verfügbar: https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/sternstunde-religion/video/das-ende-der-menschheit?urn=urn:srf:video:54e21b95-c755-45a2-80ee-f66d2b55dc35 The movie is broadcast with German subtitles. Visit also our introduction to the screening of the…
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The Austrian journal Sozialwissenschaftliche Rundschau has just published a focus issue on the topic of Utopias. It brings together six articles, two of which are written by participants in the GSIS Utopia(s) Reloaded talks a year ago in Vienna…
