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“Dark Ages 2.0”: Social Media And Their Impact
Vom 25. Bis 29. Juni 2019 findet in Urbino, Italien, die »15th International Conference of Sociocybernetics« mit dem Titel »“Dark Ages 2.0”: Social Media And Their Impact« statt. WISSENSKULTUREN ist mit mehreren Vorträgen vertreten. Hier ein Auszug aus der Konferenzankündigung: In 2009 the ISA Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics hosted its annual conference in Urbino. The title of the conference was »Modernity 2.0: emerging social media technologies and their impact«. Along the line of visionary founding fathers of cybernetics and systems theory, the call solicited interdisciplinary contribution to explore the possibilities and tackling the challenges of a “new extraordinary change that we can barely describe today”. A decade later, having…
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14th International Conference of Sociocybernetics,
Medellin, Colombia, June 20–24, 2017A Conference of Sociocybernetics is a unique and ideal academic forum for discussing on innovation and social conflicts, one that goes beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplines. The Conference has no parallel sessions, thus we encourage all participants to contribute to and profit from the full stream of discussions during the Conference, which, as a developing conversation, usually embraces all of the presentations, systemically and over-archingly. The goal of the 2017 Conference is, therefore, bring researchers from different disciplines together to explore, within a sociocybernetics approach, the challenges and opportunities related to the complex relationships between innovation and social conflicts. We invite the submission of proposals to discuss innovation and…
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Third “ISA-Forum of Sociology” in Vienna, July 10 ‑14, 2016
Session 11 of Research Committee on Sociocybernetics (RC51): »Steering of Transitional Justice: The Question of Civil Societal’s Democracy« Transitional Justice is a very high complex approach to achieving justice in times of transition from conflict and/or state repression. It needs a strong goal-oriented but also empathetic and flexibel steering process, which has to achieve accountability and redressing victims, transitional justice provides recognition of the rights of victims, promotes civic trust and strengthens the democratic rule of law. But the adequate consideration of the complexity of all existing driving-factors is very difficult and requieres usually a second order observation process by including a variety of social movements of civil society. But…