Table of Contents
About the Editors v
About the Contributors vii
1 Introduction: Sociology of Information Processes and the Development of Society Mark Burgin Wolfgang Hofkirchner 1
Part I From Nature to the Organization of Society 9
2 Information for a Global Sustainable Information Society Wolfgang Hofkirchner 11
3 Information Dynamics, Self-Organization and the Implications for Management John Collier 35
4 eSubsidiarity: An Ethical Approach for Living in Complexity José María Diaz Nafría 59
5 Multilevel Research: Exploring Natural Roots of Socio-Economic Organizations Nikhil Joshi 77
6 Conviviality: A Choice of Civilisation Marc Humbert 111
7 In Search of Wisdom in the ICT Society Gunilla Bradley 123
Part II Designing the Future 137
8 Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI): Limits to Consequentialism and the Need for Hermeneutic Assessment Armin Grunwald 139
9 The Biological Tricks that Knit a Global Brain Howard Bloom 153
10 Distributed Intelligence Technologies: Present and Future Applications Francis Heylighen 179
11 Smart Data: Running the Internet of Things as a Citizen Web Dirk Helbing 213
12 Future-Oriented Innovation: How Affordances and Potentials can Teach us How to Team from the Future as it Emerges Markus F. Peschl Thomas Fundneider 223
13 Interactive Articulation and Probing of Processes: Capturing Intention and Outcome for Coherent Workplace Design Christian Stary 241
14 Simulated Education and Illusive Technologies Yagmur Denizhan 259
15 The Service and Disservice of Information Overload: Ways to Cope Robert K. Logan 273
Part III Meaningful Technology? 285
16 Islam Between Inclusion and Exclusion: A (Decolonial) Frame Problem Syed Mustafa Ali 287
17 Rewiring the Islamic Net: Creating an Alternative to the Online Propaganda of IS (Islamic State) Rüdiger Lohlker 307
18 Reproducibility, Media and Communication Tomáš Sigmund 315
19 Governance from Below and Democratic Rebuilding in Times of Crisis Asimina Koukou 329
20 Towards a Critical Understanding of "Alternative Media": Resistance, Technology and Social Change Banu Durdag 353
21 Europe at the Crossroads: The Dangers of Economizing on Democracy and the Prospects of Democratic Sans Frontières Zoe Lefkofridi 373
22 Constructive News: A New Journalistic Genie Emerging in a Time of Multiple Crises Uwe Krüger 403
23 Media and Information Technology in Ten Years' Time: A Society of Control both from Above and Below, and from Outside and Inside Jörg Becker 423
24 Revolution in Military Affairs: Not Without Information and Communication Technology Hans-Jörg Kreowski Dietrich Meyer-Ebrecht 439
25 Cyberpeace: Promoting Human Rights and Peaceful Use of the Internet Stefan Hügel 449
26 Robots - My Mind Children: Where Do You Come From and Who Are You? Sarah Spiekermann 461
27 Homo Informaticus: Image of Man in Information Society Felix Tretter 475
28 Health Information Technology: Empowering Consumers, Patients, and Caregivers Mary Jo Deering 507
