After the first Bits & Bäume 2018, the second Bits & Bäume – The Conference for Digitization and Sustainability took place from September 30th to October 2nd, 2022 at the Technical University of Berlin. The topics covered all content at…
A new book by Christian Fuchs, now Paderborn University, Germany. The publisher, Emerald, announces: Our contemporary global digital society is not always a good place to live. Authoritarianism, hatred, false news, post-truth culture, the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement, COVID-19 conspiracy theories,…
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New Explorations journal is a revival of the journal Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, created in 1953 by Marshall McLuhan and Ted Carpenter. The new journal is run by Robert K. Logan, McLuhan expert, information scientist and systems thinker, who is Member…
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The proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Information Summit in 2021 are available open access. Read the editorial by Marcin J. Schroeder and Mark Burgin. Browse the contributions to APC Philosophy and Computing DIGHUM Workshop on Digital…
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The speeches at the workshop on Digital Humanism: how to shape digitalisation in the age of global challenges – which was a contributing conference to the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit 2021 – have been recorded.…
Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, WU professor, chair of the Institute for IS & Society, was host, initiator and main speaker at an event at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) on 16 November 2021 that was sponsored by the IEEE.…
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This book, edited by Pieter Verdegem from the University of Westminster, is published open access and available here. It brings together critical interrogations of what constitutes AI, its impact and its inequalities in order to offer an analysis of what…
The Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) lasted from 12 to 19 September 2012. All contributions were made online. They were recorded and shall be made available to the public. The Institute for a Global…
The deadline for some abstract submissions to conferences, workshops or other events at the IS4SI Summit 12-19 September 2021 has been extended to 15 June 2021. This holds for our workshop on Digital Humanism – How to shape digitalisation in…
Under this very title, our Emergent Systems Group calls for papers to be presented at an online workshop at the online International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) 2021 Summit that will be held 12-19 September 2021. The link…
