Imaginaries of Cyber Futures on the testbed of Information Ethics
Tomáš Sigmund from the University of Economics Prague and Wolfgang Hofkirchner hold together a course module at the Vienna University of Technology. The module on Designing technosocial systems focuses in the summer semester 2017 besides systems approaches and systemic approaches to information, information technologies and information society on information ethics and future…
Information from Physics to Social Science
Members of the Emergent systems, information and society Research Group have, among others, contributed to a special issue of the European Physical Journal Special Topics on „Information in Physics and Beyond“. Information as basic phenomenon in our world needs a transdisciplinary account, in which physics and other disciplines can add…
The Future Information Society. New Book release
„The accelerated technological development of the modern society is not accompanied by an equally rapid growth in scientific insight, let alone foresight, into the impact of technology on the levels of society other than that of technological organization. […] The public use of the notion of “information society” has been reduced…
Vienna 2017 | Workshop | Systems Approaches to Information Ethics I
Within the framework of the Emergent Systems, Information and Society group, Tomáš Sigmund was invited to the Center to start the joint research project „Systems Approaches to Information Ethics“. In a three-day workshop during his stay in Vienna (23-27 January, 2017), Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland) and Critical Systems Heuristics (Ulrich) were…
Systems approaches to Information Ethics
Next week Tomáš Sigmund is guest at our center. He works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Systems Analysis that belongs to the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics at the University of Economics, Prague, and is preparing for his habilitation. Currently he is focusing on theoretical systems approaches towards information…
Transhumanism – Netizens – Information in Evolutionary Systems: Three sections at Gothenburg June 2017
The BCSSS Research Group on „Emergent systems, information and society“ calls for papers and participation in three sections of the International Society for Information Studies Summit that will take place in Gothenburg from 12 to 16 June 2017. That Summit is the follow-up conference of the one that was held…
Die Qualität von Information – eine weise Gesellschaft? Wolfgang Hofkirchner über die Anforderungen der neuen Epoche
See the position on information, a wise society and the requirements of our age in: Karriere.DiePresse.com, Kolumne “Management im Kopf”, Folge 23, Komplexität meistern, von Maria Pruckner, published on 31. 10. 2016 (in German). Link
Xi’an 2016 | Workshop | Unified Theory of Information
During his stay at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Wolfgang Hofkirchner held on 6 April 2016 with students and faculty at the ICPI, the International Center for Philosophy of Information, a 3 hours workshop on his approach to information that is based upon systems thinking. In the meeting room Hofkirchner received from…
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