... Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Luhmann Niklas Systems theory Digital transformation Social change Artificial intelligence Intelligent agents In view of the significant advances in the development of artificial intelligence, particularly...

... form of communication that has the potentially corrupting power to transform modern society. Jörg Räwel can be contacted at: joerg.raewel@gmail.com Communications technologies Sociology Social networks Systems theory Social change Evolution To avoid any misunderstanding...

... analysis Social change In late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease, was discovered in Wuhan, China (Li et al., 2020a , b , c). The novel virus outbreak was labeled a pandemic by WHO on March 11, 2020, one year after its...

... of social consumer goods (Adjasi and Biekpe, 2006), private investment, release of market resources, enhancement of the allocation efficiency of financial resources (Shioji, 2001), tax preference system and other aspects to promote national economic development. Economics Social change Financial...

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... in the digital age that challenges the internal consistency of the concept, independently from any further epistemological or ontological considerations. Privacy Social change Digital transformation Public sphere Habermas Spatial turn Albrecht Fritzsche can be contacted...

... such values, i.e. through risk-decreasing actions and the use of relevant tools. Crime prevention Social change Cybercrime Routine activity theory Cyber-knowledge Internal spheres The emergence of commercial internet in the 1990s (Naughton, 2016) brought about a momentous shift in how...

... desire for social change. This paper was stimulated by a panel discussion about Brün at the 2018 American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) conference “Framing a Reality and How It Matters in a Shared World.” Herbert Brün nested his communication in what he labeled “anticommunication,” which requires...

...) and unintentional consequences (social change). This paper focuses on four points of view: the object of sociology, the problems of order and social change, the methodological status of the discipline and the nature of social explanation, and mathematical theory. Four classifications of unintended...

...). Rodolfo A. Fiorini can be contacted at: rodolfo.fiorini@polimi.it © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Cybernetics Learning Social change Big government Computational Information Conservation Theory Post-Bertalanffy Even...

... Ecology Learning Education Social change During colonial history European administrations prohibited the building of long-distance canoes on some Polynesian islands and also banned interisland travel (Lewis, 1972). Also during colonial rule Hawaiians were prohibited from speaking Hawaiian...

... survive crises are the ones that are capable of transforming their values; change presupposes the production of difference (see Bateson, 1993 , 107 y ss). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Control systems Philosophy Cybernetics Education Learning Social change If current...

..., designing and managing activities in tourism for people with various limitations or specific needs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Management Tourism Social responsibility Systems theory Social change Dialectical systems theory People with disabilities Innovation management...

...: Education Children Social responsibility Social change Communication Interdependence Hungary Language Cross-cultural studies Cross-border tourism Nationally mixed areas Opinion on knowledge Tourism is a social process with social and economic consequences. On this basis neighbours' life...

... that takes the recursive nature of consumer actions into account. Consumerism Standards Ethics Economics Social change Behaviour Recursion Corporations Philip Baron can be contacted at: pbaron@uj.ac.za © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Consumers are acquiring awareness...

... or suspend these ideas so that alternatives can be considered. Originality/value – Idea avoidance offers those who study social change and/or those who participate in making it happen a way to escape the stuckness of ideas so ingrained in the everyday ways of thinking that they go unnoticed. ©...

... paper showing that these few cybernetic principles determine the possibilities of social change – and of history. Helmut Nechansky can be contacted at: hn@nechansky.co.at © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Cybernetics Control Decision making Organizational analysis Social...

...Helmut Nechansky Purpose This paper aims to show how basic cybernetics principles of the interaction of two or more goal‐oriented systems determine the possibilities of social change – and of history. Design/methodology/approach The starting‐point is the assumption of a social unit organized...