Within the framework of the Social Information Gatherings (SIG 2025) – organised by the GSIS Emergent Systems Research Group – at this year’s Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) (that takes place every two years),…
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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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A Panel on that theme will be held online in the framework of the Social Information Gatherings that are organised together with our Institute at the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit 2025. It will be hosted by the Huazhong University…
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Take part online in the workshop with the same title in the framework of the Social Information Gatherings held together with our Institute at the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit 2025. The workshop will take place…
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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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The International Academy of Information Studies (IAIS) announces a new dialogue. Pedro C. Marijuan writes: Prof. Michael Levin, Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University (https://allencenter.tufts.edu/our-team/michael-levin/)Prof. William Miller, Bioverse Foundation (https://www.ourbioverse.com/resume/) Title: MIND, LIFE, and MACHINES The session will take place on Friday, March 21st,at 18:00…
The purpose of the talks about “Utopia(s) reloaded: Science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation” we are preparing for 26-28 October 2023 is to raise awareness of the scientific basis on which action can be effective in overcoming the current polycrisis.…
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The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) calls for a paradigm change in the study of information at the Summit 2023 in Beijing, convened by the China Chapter of IS4SI. The message is: A physical approach is deemed…
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The IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information) Summit 2023 calls for a paradigm shift in the field of information. The most used paradigm so far is borrowed from physics, criticises Chinese scholar Yixin Zhong from the AI School…
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