Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and Mälardalen University is this semester Guest Professor at the TU Wien Informatics Doctoral School. Her VU Lecture and Exercise course is called Digital Ethics and the Connected World. On 5 May…
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This was the title of two courses for bachelor studies in informatics at the IMC University of Applied Sciences in Krems, Austria, held by Wolfgang Hofkirchner during summer semester 2021. Find here the presentation slides: Reflections on computer science I…
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A science of information as a single integrated transdiscipline cannot be reduced to a unified, or general, theory of information. But it can take advantage of such a theory that can form its backbone. Science is more than theory that…
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From 14-16 June 2019, Thomas Allmer (University of Stirling) and Karem Schamberger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU) blocked a seminar at the Department of Media and Communication at LMU Munich under the title Digitale Arbeit und Kapitalismus. Twenty-five students of the LMU and of…
Wolfgang Hofkirchner was invited to be part of the course SOLV XI (self-organised course no. 11) on the change of production and industrial relations in the course of the digital revolution at the Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaft) of the Vienna University of…
Tomáš Sigmund from the University of Economics Prague and Wolfgang Hofkirchner held together a course module at the Vienna University of Technology. The module on Designing technosocial systems focused in the summer semester 2017 besides systems approaches and systemic approaches to information, information technologies and…
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In April 2017, Emergent Systems Group member Yagmur Denizhan, Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Bogazici University, Turkey, was invited by the International Center for Philosophy of Information, School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Xi’an Jiaotong University, to give…
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Wolfgang Hofkirchner was invited to give a lecture in the course Transdisciplinarity Research Methods at the Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg. At the same time, that lecture was part of the SCCIIL Interdisciplinary Center Research Seminar that connects to Chalmers University. SCCIIL…
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During his stay at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Wolfgang Hofkirchner held on 6 April 2016 with students and faculty at the ICPI, the International Center for Philosophy of Information, a 3 hours workshop on his approach to information that is based…
Another talk of Wolfgang Hofkirchner at the Jiaotong University in Xi’an, China, held on 5 April 2016, addressed the new challenges facing the methodology of social sciences. The lecture dealt with critical assets in social theory dating back to Karl Marx…
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