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…
Julian Nida-Rümelin, philosopher and political theorist at the LMU (University of Munich), author of Digitaler Humanismus 2018 together with his wife, literary scholar and film theorist Nathalie Weidenfeld, is the speaker at the next DigHum Lectures on 15 December 2020,…
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The topic: Strategies for a Humanistic Digital Future On Thursday, 19 November 2020, and Friday, 20 November 2020, from 16:00 to 18:30 CET, you can join international experts and policy-makers in online discussions or watch them via YouTube LiveStream. Programme:…
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On the occasion of the opening of the Western China Science and Technology Innovation Harbour in Xi’an jang in Xi’an, Shaanxi, five international experts were invited to present their views via online Teams connection in a Senior Forum on The…
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That’s the title of a talk to be given in the framework of the DigHum (Digital Humanism) Lectures organised by TU Wien. Invited is this time Stuart Russel from UC Berkeley. The event will be moderated by Helga Nowotny. I…
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Because of Corona crisis conditions, the Vienna Digital Humanism initiative postponed its planned workshop at the TU Wien to autumn this year. Instead, an online workshop with a different programme will be held on 14 May 2020, at 14:00 CEST,…
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On 11 February 2020, the iASK (Institute for Advanced Studies Köszeg) Research Group Human 2.0 invited to its second workshop in Köszeg, Hungary. Guest and keynote speaker was Wolfgang Hofkirchner. He was invited to give a talk on the concept…
