GSIS’s partner organisation, the Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft, a scholarly network that tries to push critical communication and media studies in the German speaking countries, in cooperation with the Institute for Heterodox Economis, WU Vienna, hosts a conference on “Property, the…
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The academic network Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft (KriKoWi) calls for a summer school at Paderborn University, 25 – 26 September 2020. Deadline for registering is 2 August 2020. Contact: Sebastian Sevignani, Interim Professor, Media Systems and Media Organisation, Institute of Media Studies,…
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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…
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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More than 120 scholars, journalists, and activists participated in the third Annual Conference of the Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft (network for critical communication studies) from 21 to 22 November 2019 at the University of Leipzig, Germany. The network was founded among…
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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…
Sebastian Sevignani gave a paper at the annual Philosophy & Social Science Conference in Prague. The conference was hosted by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and took place in Vila Lana (see picture) on 1 June 2019.…
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Joon Kim, Professor at Seoul National University (SNU) (see photo left), and his wife Haeok Lee, psychologist (see photo right), met with Wolfgang Hofkirchner in Vienna on 8 April 2019. Kim and Lee translated Hofkirchner’s book Twenty questions about a…
Long time ago, later GSIS Members started to promote the endeavour to integrate knowledge in the field of the general study of information and systems as a basis for the constitution of a truly global and sustainable information society. As…
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Klaus Kornwachs was invited by the Club of Vienna to hold a lecture. Around fifty people attended on 11 December 2018 his talk on Kritik der Autonomie – Warum Maschinen nicht eigenständig agieren sollten (Critique of autonomy – why machines…
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