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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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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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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Our friend Günther Witzany reminds us of a symposium in 1991: “Klein sein oder nicht sein. Für eine Kultur der Selbstbeschränkung”. Experts Leopold Kohr, Erwin Chargaff, Robert Jungk and Peter Cornelius Meyer-Tasch were the speakers. What was said there, sounds…
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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…
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…
Edgar Morin, Member of our Advisory Committee, published on 30 January 2024 an article* using the title of a book of Victor Serge that was published in 1939 when Hitler’s war was starting. This book described the midnight of the…
Hendrik Theine and Sebastian Sevignani published a special issue of the European Journal of Communication (EJC) under that title. They write in the introduction: The special issue is part of a revived interest in property in the social sciences and…
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The 32nd Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks (IDIMT) took place 4 to 6 September 2024 in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Our Institutional Member, the Department of Systems Analysis of the University of Economics and Business, Prague, was represented by Petr Doucek…
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