Insights
In the aftermath of the glossaLAB project, a second international workshop will be held in Spain 2023 as sequel of the one held there in 2022. Time will be devoted to the discussion of INSIGHT as a follow-up project. See…
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Utopia(s) reloaded: science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation. A GSIS call for talks
Before the turn of the millennium, French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin drew attention to the “Homeland Earth” of a common humanity.[i] However, such ideas no longer seem to play a major role in the new millennium, while a multiple…
ARTIIS 2023
After 2021 (see here) and 2022 (see here), the third conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability will be held at Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain, between the 18th and 20th of October 2023. It will…
War in Ukraine: negotiate now!
Edgar Morin published a new book with a French publisher on 6 January 2023. It is about WW I and WW II, about wars after Nuremberg and, of course, about the war in Ukraine that has become a proxy war…
The quest for a new paradigm in studies of information
The IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information) Summit 2023 calls for a paradigm shift in the field of information. The most used paradigm so far is borrowed from physics, criticises Chinese scholar Yixin Zhong from the AI School…
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On into 2023!
“It is 100 seconds to midnight.”* Concerned scientists had set the doomsday clock at that time even before the hostilities in Ukraine escalated into one of the hot spots of “World War III” – as Pope Francis used to call…
IDIMT 2023
Petr Doucek and Antonin Pavlicek from the Prague University of Economics and Business (VSE, Czech Republic) and Michael Sonntag from the J. Kepler University Linz (JKU, Austria) write: in this pre-Christmas time, we bring you good news – we would…
Climate-friendly living, II
On 28 November 2022, the APCC Special Report on Structures for climate-friendly living was presented in a press conference by Karl Steininger (Uni Graz) and Andreas Novy (WU Wien), featuring Leonore Gewessler, Federal Minister for Climate Action, and Martin Kocher, Federal…
Digital ethics
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…
Conference for digitalisation and sustainability
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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