Wolfgang Hofkirchner

Wolfgang Hofkirchner

Wolfgang Hofkirchner studied Political Science and Psychology at the University of Salzburg where he awarded his Dr.phil. He worked in the field of science-technology-society at the Institute of Socio-Economic Development Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of Design and Technology Assessment of the Vienna University of Technology where he taught Informatics and Society and Media Informatics. Since 2004, he is Professor for Internet & Society at the ICT&S Center at the University Salzburg. His current research and teaching focus is: Science – Technology – Society, in particular, Information Society Theory and Foundations of Information Science. He has published 130 contributions including 18 monographs or edited volumes. In 2008 he has organised an international networking meeting in the emerging field of ICTs-and-Society with recognised scholars in this field from all parts of the world.

Contact Details
Address: (Consultation Hours: on appointment) ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg, Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Phone: +43 662 8044 4821
Fax: +43 662 6389 4800
Email: wolfgang.hofkirchner@sbg.ac.at
Website: http://hofkirchner.uti.at


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Recent Publications

Books:

Hofkirchner, Wolfgang (ed.) (2006): David Pouvreau, La "tragédie dialectique du concept de totalité“: Une biographie non officielle de Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) d’après ses textes, sa correspondance et ses archives, BCSSS, Vienna,102


Hofkirchner, Wolfgang (Hg.) (2005): Mark Davidson: QuErdenken! Leben und Werk Ludwig von Bertalanffys. Peter Lang, Wien, 176


Dobronravova, I., Hofkirchner, Wolfgang (Eds.) (2004): Science of Self-Organization and Self-Organization of Science. Abris, Kyiv, 200  

To view a selection of books published before 2004 see this Book List.

Selected Papers (available to download)

Hofkirchner, W.: How to Achieve a Unified Theory of Information. In: Díaz Nafría, J. M., Salto Alemany, F. (eds.), ¿Qué es información?, Actas al Primer Encuentro Internacional de Expertos en Teorías de la Información, Un enfoque interdisciplinar, León, 6-7 noviembre de 2008, Universidad de León, ISBN 978-84-9773-451-6, 2008


Raffl, C., Hofkirchner, W., Fuchs, C., Schafranek, M.: The Web as Technosocial System. The Emergence of Web 3.0. In: Trappl, R. (ed.), Cybernetics and Systems 2008, Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, held at the University of Vienna, 25-28 March 2008, Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 2008, 604-609


Hofkirchner, W., Tscheligi, M., Bichler, R., Reitberger, W.: Ambient Persuasion for the Good Society. In: IRIE, Vol. 8 (12/2007), 42-46


Hofkirchner, W.: Theorien der Informationsgesellschaft. In: Sitzungsberichte der Leibniz-Sozietät, Band 93, 2007, trafo-Verlag, Berlin, 101-117 


Hofkirchner, W., Fuchs, C., Raffl, C., Schafranek, M., Sandoval, M., Bichler, R.: ICTs and Society: The Salzburg Approach. Towards a Theory for, about, and by means of the Information Society. In: ICT&S Center Research Paper Series, No. 3, Dec. 2007, 1-57


Hofkirchner, W.: A Critical Social Systems View of the Internet. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 4, Dec. 2007, 471-500 


Hofkirchner, W.: Das Internet als Raum. Evolutionäre Systemtheorie als Grundlage einer einheitlichen Raumtheorie. In: Vorschein Nr. 29, Jahrbuch 2007 der Ernst-Bloch-Assoziation, 2007, 64-77 


Doucette, D., Hofkirchner, W., Bichler, R., Raffl, C.: Toward a New Science of Information. In: Proceedings, CODATA 2006, Data Science Journal, Vol. 6, 7 April 2007, S198-S205 


Hofkirchner, W.: Society as a self-organising system. In: Yevtuh, V., Dobronravova, I. (Eds.), Cultural Context of Social Self-Organization, Kyiv University Press, 2006, 27-34   


Herdin, T., Hofkirchner, W., Maier-Rabler, U.: Culture and Technology: A Mutual-Shaping-Approach. In: Hongladarom, S., Ess, C. (eds.), Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives, Idea Group, Hershey PA, 2006, 57-64  


Hofkirchner, W.: Das Internet – Medium einer bewussten gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung. In: Fleissner, P., Romano, V. (eds.), Digitale Medien – neue Möglichkeiten für Demokratie und Partizipation? trafo Verlag, Berlin, 2006, 157-170


Fuchs, C. Hofkirchner, W: Informatik und Gesellschaft – Ein notwendiger Zusammenhang. In: Buchinger, E., Felt, U. (eds.), Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologie in Österreich, Stand und Perspektiven, ÖZS, Sonderband 8, 2006, 205-224


Hofkirchner, W.: Towards a Post-Luhmannian Social Systems View. In: Proceedings, XVI World Congress of Sociology, Durban, CD-ROM, 2006, 1-20


Hofkirchner, W.: Natur und Gesellschaft. Dialektik und Systemtheorie 1. In: Zimmermann, R. (Ed.), Naturallianz, Von der Physik zur Politik in der Philosophie Ernst Blochs, Kovac, Hamburg, 2006, 299-320  


Raffl, C., Hofkirchner, W.: Transdisziplinarität. Dialektik und Systemtheorie 2. In: Zimmermann, R. (Ed.), Naturallianz, Von der Physik zur Politik in der Philosophie Ernst Blochs, Kovac, Hamburg, 2006, 321-342    


Fuchs, C., Hofkirchner, W.: Self-organization, knowledge and responsibility. In: Kybernetes Vol. 34 No. 1/2, 2005, 241–260  


Hofkirchner, W., Fuchs, C., Klauninger, B.: Informational Universe. A praxeo-onto-epistemological Approach. In: Martikainen, E. (ed.), Human Approaches to the Universe, Interdisciplinary Studies, Luther-Agricola-Society, Academic Bookstore, Helsinki, 2005, 75–94
Fuchs, C., Hofkirchner, W.: The Dialectic of Bottom-up and Top-down Emergence in Social Systems. In: tripleC 3/2, 2005, 28-50 

Hofkirchner, W., Ellersdorfer, G.: Cognition, Communication, and Co-operation in Living Systems. Biosemiosis in the Context of Self-Organisation. In: tripleC 3/2, 2005, 75-85 

Hofkirchner, W.: A New Way of Thinking and a New World View. On the Philosophy of Self-Organisation I. In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing Vol. 11/No. 1, 2004, 63–78 

Hofkirchner, W.: Unity Through Diversity. Dialectics – Systems Thinking – Semiotics. In: Trans 15/2004 (ISSN 1560-182X) 

Fuchs, C., Hofkirchner, W.: Information in social systems. In: Schmitz, Walter (Ed.), Zeichenprozesse in komplexen Systemen – Sign Processes in Complex Systems, Akten des 7. Internationalen Kongresses der International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS) vom 6.-11.10.1999, TU Dresden, Thelem, Dresden 2004, plus 1 CD-ROM, ISBN 3-933592-21-6     

Hofkirchner, W., Maier-Rabler, U.: The Ethos of the Great Bifurcation. In: IRIE, Vol. 2, Nov. 2004

To view a selection of papers published before 2004 see this Paper List.

Presentations (available to download):

„A Critical Social Systems View of the Internet“, 3.-6.9.2007, esa conference 8 (The 8th Conference of the European Sociological Association), Glasgow Caledonian University and University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
„Web 3.0 – Technologies for Co-operation? Social-philosophical remarks on the desirable possible future development of the Internet“, 26.-28.7.2007, 2007 North American Computers and Philosophy (NA-CAP) Conference, Loyola University Chicago
„Die Einheit der Informationsgesellschaft“, 16.1.2007, Antrittsvorlesung, Universität Salzburg. To see the video of the inaugural lecture follow this Link.
„Evolutionäre Systemtheorie als Grundlage einer einheitlichen Raumtheorie“, 27.-29.10.2006, Raumkonstruktion und Raumerfahrung, Öffentliche Tagung der Ernst-Bloch-Assoziation (EBA) in Kooperation mit dem ICT&S Center, Universität Salzburg
„Towards a Post-Luhmannian Social Systems View“, 23.-29.7.2006, RC 51 Sociocybernetics, XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa
„Unity through Diversity. European Integration in the Perspective of Systems Philosophy“, 1.-3.6.2006, PHILOSOPHY – BRIDGING CIVILIZATIONS AND CULTURES, Universal, Regional, National Values in United Europe, XXIV Varna International Philosophical School, Varna, Bulgaria
„Self-organisation, less-than-strict-determinism, and the four Aristotelian causes“, 20.-21.4.2006, Causality and Motivation, Workshop, Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano, Italy
„Zur Theorie der Informationsgesellschaft: Informatiion und Wissen als zentrale Begriffe gesellschaftlicher Selbstbeschreibung“, im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „Die digitale Herausforderung“, Interuniversity Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ), Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF), University of Klagenfurt, 27.3.2006
„What is biological information? A transdisciplinary approach“, 20.-24.7.2005, 5th Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2005, Urbino, Italy
„Beyond the Third Culture! Science in the Information Age. Lecture dedicated to the Memory of Tom Stonier“, 4.-7.7.2005, Invited Lecture, Third Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Paris
„A Unified Theory of Information as Transdisciplinary Framework“, 2.-4.6.2005, E-CAP 2005 (European Computing and Philosophy Conference), Mälardalen University, Västerås, Schweden
Beitrag „Wissensgesellschaft am Scheideweg“ zur Ringvorlesung Informationsgesellschaft? Kommunikationsgesellschaft? Wissensgesellschaft?, Universität Salzburg, 12.5.2005
„eTheory: vernetzte Welt – vernetzte Wissenschaft“, 26.1.2005, ICT&S Podium, Salzburg
„Aspects of a Unified Theory of Information: Agenda – Framework – Applications“, 14.11.2002, interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung, Wirtschaftsuniversität, Prag