Vangelis Papadimitropoulos who works as researcher with us published his first book. The title is The Commons: Economic Alternatives in the Digital Age. His book classifies the approaches to the commons into three categories: liberalism, reformism and anti-capitalism. After the…
The second convivialist manifesto Towards a Post-Neoliberal World has recently been published in German. It is open access. An abridged English version is presented by the online journal Civic Sociology. Wolfgang Hofkirchner belongs to the signatories.
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The establishment of the Study of Information as an academic field in its own right is a scientific endeavour that is carried out by the IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information). The GSIS Institute supports it. Its Emergent…
The evolution of humanity faces a Great Bifurcation: either a breakthrough to a regime of global governance in which the self-made global challenges in the social, ecological and technological realm can be kept under control or a breakdown threatening with…
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Mark Burgin, GSIS Chief Information Scientist, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Member of the Emergent Systems Group, and Marcin Schroeder, President of the International Society for Information Studies (IS4SI), published the proceedings of the IS4SI Berkeley Summit on AI in 2019. They collected…
The journal Acta Europeana Systemica (AES) calls for contributions. Under the title Unlock Consciences: Rethinking the World after the Pandemic, the call states: The Covid-19 pandemic calls the functioning of our eco-social systems into question in all their aspects (management of social…
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In 2020, the coronavirus crisis ruptured societies and their everyday life around the globe. This article is a contribution to critically theorising the changes societies have undergone in the light of the coronavirus crisis. It asks: How have everyday life…
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The German Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) published number 1/2020 of their quarterly journal FIfF Kommunikation. The focus is on the yearly conference 2019 on Artificial Intelligence as Wonderland. See here. Videos of presentations and the…
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Sebastian Sevignani published a papier in the current Annual Review of Critical Psychology. The paper makes innovative use of Critical Psychology for media theory and a social theory of the subject and introduces the notion of informational and digital needs…
The IEEE Initiative on ethics with autonomous and intelligent systems (A/IS) published the collaborative work on ethical considerations in the design of A/IS (see our previous news on the topic). Wolfgang Hofkirchner contributed to the chapter Classical Ethics in A/IS,…
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