The most recent volume of World Scientific Series in Information Studies has been published. It editors are Marcin J. Schroeder and Wolfgang Hofkirchner. This book is a collection of works related to information contributed by multiple authors dedicated to the…
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Wir freuen uns, jetzt das verschobene Gespräch zum obigen Thema in der Reihe Utopia(s) Conversations on a Convivial Society for All für Samstag, 21. Juni 2025, 17 Uhr CEST, in den Räumlichkeiten des GSIS Lab in der “Wolke”, “Alte WU”,…
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Robert K. Logan, physicist, systems theorist, editor of New Explorations, a former collaborator of Marshall McLuhan, a member of the Pugwash movement, draws our attention to a paper in which he compares the Christian and Jewish traditions with regard to the…
Annette Schlemm who recently was in Vienna to hold two lectures wrote an article in Furche about geoengineering. She had published a book in German on that topic (see here). She was invited by the Club of Vienna to talk…
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Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, Honorary Member of GSIS and initiator of Emergent Systems, Information and Society as Arbeitskreis at the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin – LS – (now also a Special Interest Group at the International Society for the Study of…
Das Heft Nummer 1 des heurigen Jahres der deutschen Zeitschrift Wissenschaft und Frieden beschäftigt sich damit, warum bestimmte Konflikte und Kriege von der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung selber unterschiedlich beachtet werden. Die Begründungen dafür halten kaum einer Überprüfung stand. Kritische Friedensforschung…
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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