Power and self-organisation
This is lifeWhat a fucked up thing we doWhat a nightmare come trueOr a playground if we chooseAnd I choose I Choose, The Offspring This is the motto of a dissertation thesis written by Evo Busseniers for the Doctor of…
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Mario Bunge 1919 – 2020
Mario Augusto Bunge passed away. He died on 24 February 2020 at an age of 100 years old. He was born in Buenos Aires, studied physics at the National University of La Plata, became Professor for Theoretical Physics in La…
Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks call for papers
We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the 28th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks – IDIMT 2020, which will take place on September 4th – 6th, 2020 in Kutná Hora (a Czech UNESCO city). The conference is organized by the Prague University of…
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Towards a world beyond neoliberalism: The second manifesto of convivialism
After the Convivialist Manifesto of the year 2013, a second version is published now. Building upon the first manifesto, an initiative of mostly French intellectuals, the second manifesto was drafted by Alain Caillé, professor emeritus of sociology, and after international…
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Online information governance – more expression, less freedom?
Under this motto the Fourth European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS) will take place 7-8 May 2020 in Vienna. It is organised by the Media Governance and Industries Research Lab & Jean Monnet Centre of…
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Europe: crisis, social media and governance from below
This work concentrates on the emergence of ‘governance from below’ (civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations, self-organised networks, social movements) in Europe during the crisis. In particular, it investigates how social movements utilise the Internet in order to represent themselves as…
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Co-operation agreement between Madrid Open University and GSIS
Our Institute signed an academic, scientific and cultural agreement with the Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA Madrid Open University). The agreement foresees annual plans of co-operation in areas in which the parties have expressed interest. Such plans cover possibilities…
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Joint project on “Information Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability”
The Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the University of Economics in Prague (FIS) and The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS) signed a Memorandum on a joint project on Information Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability. This project shall…
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Artificial Intelligence as wonderland
From 22 to 24 November 2019, the German Forum of Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) held its annual conference at the University of Bremen. The overall theme was Künstliche Intelligenz als Wunderland. The conference offered 11 plenary…
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Challenging Organisations and Society (COS) Conference 2019: The Art of Intelligence – Backbone of Digitization?
ARTificial 2019 in Linz at its Makerspace Grand Garage© aimed to bring together practitioners, researchers, and artists from different fields. About 60 participants joined the 3-day learning journey starting with interfacing digital production technologies and art, inspired by Johannes Braumann…