While a considerable number of scientists still today disbelieve in the feasibility of a single generic concept of information, there are several attempts to hypothesize or theorize information in a unifying manner carried out by a strong minority of scientists. However, the camp of the "unifiers" itself is heterogeneous. The 'Unified Theory of Information', as Wolfgang Hofkirchner came to term his own approach, links information to self-organization. It elaborates on arguments of dialectical philosophy in order to avoid both the pitfalls of reductionism and dualism and seeks to reconcile the...

-Es gibt keine eindeutige Determination der sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung durch die wissenschaftlich-technische Entwicklung, wie dies aus technokratischer bzw. scientistischer Sicht gerne angenommen wird. Es gibt aber sicher keine soziale und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung ohne wissenschaftlich-technische Entwicklung. Es wird hochst wahrscheinlich auch keinen weiteren wissenschaftlich-technischen Fortschritt ohne sozialen Fortschritt geben, beide Entwicklungsprozesse mussen durch bewusste Gestaltung miteinander vermittelt werden.-
-Die modernen Informations- und...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book is the second volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on "The Information Society at the Crossroads. Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information" (see summit.is4is.org).The book gives an up-to-date multiaspect exposition of contemporary studies in the field of information and related areas. It presents most recent achievements, ideas and opinions of leading researchers in this domain reflecting their quest for advancing information science and technology. With the goal of building a better society,...

This book is the first volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on "The Information Society at the Crossroads. Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information" (see summit.is4is.org).The book represents a trans-disciplinary endeavor of the leading experts in the field of information studies posing the question for a better society, in which social and technological innovations help make information key to the flourishing of humanity and dispense with the bleak view of the dark side of information society.It is...