On 29 September 2025 the Future Foundation was presented to the public (https://gsis.at/2025/09/03/10-regeln-fur-die-digitale-welt/). Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, Board Member of the Future Foundation, announces a follow-up series of talks: From time to time we will offer a virtual lunch-time talk on an…
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Stefan Woltran reminds us of the next talk in the DigHum lecture series: Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. (17:00) Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) Topic: “New Humanism in the Time of Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (NHNAI): a Research-Action Project”(scroll down…
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Rainer Rehak from Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung informs about a call for papers for a Special Issue of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society next year. Submission deadline 15 November 2025: In light of the recent…
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The Conference Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks have been uploaded. You will find 43 papers by 107 authors from 11 countries (Armenia, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Israel, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Ukraine). Follow that link. See…
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The TU Wien DigHum Team calls our attention to the following event which will be also livestreamed: We would like to invite you to join us for a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test on 2 October 2025 at…
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Armin Grunwald, Leiter des Instituts für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS) am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), lädt im Namen des Vorstands der neu gegründeten Future Foundation zur Vorstellung dieser Initiative ein. Er schreibt in der Mailingliste des Netzwerks TA (NTA):…
The FIfF-Kommunikation Nr. 2, 2025, has been published – the journal of the German Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung. You can read it here: http://www.fiff.de/fiff-kommunikation/2025/2 Eine bunte Mischung von Beiträgen aus dem Themenfeld Informatik und Gesellschaft enthält diese…
On the occasion of the 2025 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI), our Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group – which is also an IS4SI Special Interest Group – invites to an event to…
The most recent volume of World Scientific Series in Information Studies has been published. Its 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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Utopia(s) Conversations on Meaningful Technologies A hybrid symposium organised by Raffaela Giovagnoli, Irena Mostowicz and Tomáš Sigmund in the framework of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) biennial Summit 2025. It will take place in 4lthangrund, “Alte…
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