No doubt that computer science is the formative mode of building the models of contemporary social life. Interactional settings, inter- and transorganizational networks as well as the internal structures of macro-social phenomena like science, politics, economy, art and the media are ‘nerved’ with heterogenous, overlapping and sometimes antidromic tendencies to be formed by extremely distributed but nonetheless large scaled information infrastructure. This tendency of contemporary society not to realize stability and expectability by processes of institutionalizing, but by installing (social) order is the focus of this work group of young researchers from social science and humanities.

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