ISA RC51 7th International Conference of Sociocybernetics TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITY Murcia, Spain, June 18-23, 2007

Preliminary Programme (36 presentations á 45 minutes)

Monday 18. / Tuesday 19. / Wednesday 20. / Thursday 21. / Friday 22.
9:00 – 10:30 / 9:00 Registration / Technology subsitution on a limited market: the innovation multiplying factor and its consequences: a market dynamic approach (Bernel-Perez, Garcia-Juan) / Time-space substitution and the colonization of alter/ego interpenetrations
(Aguado, Martinez, Guardiola) / Assessment of regional policies of solar photovoltaic energy
(Mujika-Perea) (Spanish Session)
10:00 Opening Ceremony
(Salinas – Spanish Official)
(Rodriguez – Spanish Official)
(Scott – RC51 President) / Socio-cybernetics and business cybernetics as approaches in dealing with the relation between technology and social complexity in invention-innovation processes
(Potocan, Mulej) / Innovation as a complex social process: Functional systems, structural couplings and professional roles
(Buchinger) / Towards an intro-prospective epistemology: a methodological proposal
(Caro-Almela) (Spanish Session) / 9:45
Is it possible to use second-order cybernetics as a technological device in sociological research?
(Parra-Luna)
Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:15 / Technology and social complexity: Analyzing the step before
(Zamorano) / Application of technology to enhancing of (co)creative (co)operation and socially responsible action of all in a society (Prosenak, Mulej) / Reflexions on power, democracy and communication
(Espejo) / Commodification and the information age: everyday life, digital machines and capitalism
(Fernandez-Vicente) (Spanish Session) / Chain knowledge-invention-technology-wealth: a system dynamics basic model
(Gallon)
Humans’ capability of technological adaptations to the general technological progress of humankind
(Vrecko, Mulej) / Self and other steering within the dynamics of organizational change
(Scott, Johnson) / Social efficiency in non-profit organizations: what is better in the complex societies (Marcuello-Servos) / The social memory construction on the technology: a sociocybernetic reflection
(Maas) (Spanish Session) / Competence model in collaborative networks of organization
(Klas, Sigmund, Subrta)
Media-technology and the structural change of knowledge societies
(Paetau) / Social semantics 2.0
(Giglietto) / Buckleys adaptive model as a sociocybernetic technology
(Amozurrutia) / Complex settlement in problematic the environmental contemporary
(Cifuentes-Ruiz) (Spanish Session) / Ethic dimension of technology and the social construction of life: the case of technologies to prolong life
(Caramaschi)
Lunch
15:15 – 16:45 / Technology, science and complexity: a multidimensional approach from the ‘complex thought’ of Edgar Morin
(Malaina) / ICT usage in education and business practice (Kasparova) / Grounding cyberculture: technology as a social vector and culture as a symbolic ecologies
(Gonzales) / Con(t)acts in the net: Trust fabrics, biomesh and psychic technology
(Contreras-Medina) (Spanish Session) / The historical role of all-pervasive effect of the rise of modern (industrial) technology on the complexity of Western societies
(Strauss)
Science, technology and innovation in society (Hornung) / Gotthard Günther: Sociocybernetician? (Simon) / Social complexity, technology, and the consequences of war
(Menanteau-Horta) / The evolution of the ‚fourth world’ in Spain: the consolidation of a regionl digital gap(Garcia-Carmona) (Spanish Session) / The duality north-south in social evolution
(Pla-Lopez)
Coffee Break
17:15 – 18:00 / Social complexity and experimentation with TICs: socializations of the code in the knowledge society
(Seguel) / On meaning and the architecture of language (Kjellman) / The war on terror
(Geyer) / The society and economy of the communicative knowledge by means of cybernetic sociosystems
(Gutierrez) (Spanish Session)
19:00 – 20:30 / Board Meeting / SQC-Meeting / Business Meeting
20:30 / Dinner / Dinner / Dinner / Conference Dinner / Dinner