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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The latest FIfF Kommunikation is out. The journal of the German Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) is another time devoted to Artificial Intelligence. GSIS Emergent Systems Group co-head Hans-Jörg Kreowski contributed one article on a livable…
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The Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group, which is at the same time a Working Group at the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (LS), held a conference on digital media and the future culture of scientific work. The conference…
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That’s the title of a talk Yagmur Denizhan, Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department and Head of the Graduate Program in Systems and Control Engineering of Bogazici University, Turkey, will give at an online event, 10 February 2022,…
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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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Under this title, the Platform Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) – a friend of the GSIS Institute – holds its yearly conference in hybrid form. The FIfF regional group Munich is host. The date is: 12–14 November,…
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In the framework of the joint Congress of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie and Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie at the WU Vienna on Post Corona Society, 23-25 August 2021 (online/hybrid), Sebastian Sevignani and Martin Seeliger organised an ad-hoc group on the digital, structural transformation of the…
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This online event launches “The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto”. The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. The Manifesto stresses the importance of public service media and the creation…
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The new issue of the peer-reviewed, open-access Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, published with oekom by the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, is on “Climate-Neutral and…
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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…
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