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…
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 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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“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…
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…
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…
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…
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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The Club of Vienna invites to an event on the thinking of Ivan Illich. Illich has become famous because of his term “conviviality” used in his 1973 book with the title “Tools for Conviviality” – a criticism of current civilisation.…
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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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