Dear Internet Governance friends,<br><br>I'm helpingspread the word on the proposed creation of a new thematic group at the International Sociological Assocation called "Hypercitizenship". For all the sociologists in the list, this might be of interest. See bellow.<br>
Best regards,<br>Ivar<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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<font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">Dear Colleague, </span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>I am delighted to inform you that
I proposed to found a new International Sociological Assocation thematic group(
TG) focused on HYPERCITIZENSHIP (see the manifesto below), hypercytizenship will
also be the key topic of my Scientific Director Speech at WCSA 2012 as WCSA(</font></font><a href="http://www.wcsaglobal.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman" size="3">www.wcsaglobal.org</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">) was born as a
“hypercitizenship lab” to go more and more international to diffuse research
worldwide to found the TG we have to follow a specific procedure pasted below
the manifesto. At the moment we are three subscribers from three different
continents. We are aimed to be at least 10 subscribers from 7 countrires and 3
continents ,at least.</font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">If you are an ISA member or you wish to become it before<span> </span>January 2013,<span> </span>I sincerely wish you ill subcribe<span> </span>this proposal.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">The
following ISA scholars already subscribed this initiative</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">I
wish you too will subscribe this initiative</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Andrea
Pitasi(Italy)</font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Germano
Schwartz (Brasil)<br>
Anuradha Parasar (India)</font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Adam
Czarnota (Australia).</font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Eliana
Herrera Vega( Canada)</font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Ettore Recchi (Italy)</font></font></span></p></blockquote>
<div>Ivar Hartmann (Brazil)<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">Best</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">Andrea</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>THEMATIC GROUP MANIFESTO </font></font></span></u></b></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">Hypercitizenship
Thematic Group DRAFT MANIFESTO</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">The
Hypercitizenship concept is focused on the fact that communication about key
challenges of our times is increasingly meaning communication and public
understanding of science and technology for governance and policymaking on a
global, glocal and cosmopolitan scale. Therefore, the idea of the group moves
from the intent to investigate into autonomous agents and global flows
eventually converging by means of autopoietic systems.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">New
hypotheses around possible bio-economic scenarios imply the need to cope with
multiple inputs involving diverse domains in which the idea of a turbo
capitalism inevitably impact on biology, medicine, engineering and social
science. </span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">The
Hypercitizenship TG aims at conceiving, planning, organizing, evaluating and
promoting basic and applied scientific research, both on a theoretical and on a
practical level. </span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">Even
though similar groups may be found within the ISA fields of research, such as
the following: WG01 Sociology on Local-Global Relations, RC 12 Sociology of
Law, RC 51 Sociocybernetics, further and innovative elements can be traced, for
the Hypercitizenship TG will provide a thorough forum for debating issues
belonging to diverse research domains concerning the fundamental evolutionary challenges
that human society is currently facing in the energetic, ecologic and
biotechnological fields by applying a creative and innovative pluralism at
every research stage.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US">Indeed,
</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">as we
approach the challenges of global society, the issue of a Hypercitizenship
global trend suddenly impacts on our perception of what Systemic science could
mean in terms of human (or even hyperhuman) and social evolution. The image of
post human horizons is envisaged, also suggesting the resort to human
artificial prostheses.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">Thus,
the “avangarde” of such evolutionary society is made up by the new emerging
knowledge-based elites, also defined as the Elites of the future and wide
horizon leaders.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">New
associations of concepts emerge, evoking similarities in terms of convention
and invention of lean thinking and flows or Variety and Strategy, in order to
define an innovative and de-structured way to think about the creation of a
performing hyperhuman society.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-GB">The
group will welcome the contribution of scholars and young researchers coming
from different backgrounds but whose research interests may find a strategic
convergence towards a systemic approach to both technological and human
sciences topics</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><a name="13ab1fdc6f636862_13aae30a2baedb4a_13a4536fa3f50b08_1398164f9d8641d1__GoBack"></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><u><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="PT-BR">THE PROCEDURE TO FOUND
AN ISA THEMATIC GROUP</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-GB"></span></u></b></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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<span style="background:white">ISA Research Coordinating Committee (RCC)
reviews applications for establishing new groups at its annual meetings. In
your application for a Thematic Group status, please include:</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">- a list of signatories of 10 ISA members in
good standing (i.e. who have paid individual membership dues) with geographical
diversity as determined by the Executive Committee: members from at least 10
countries in 2 continents or 7 countries in 3 continents.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">- a report on the recent and planned activities
of the group;</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">- a statement on how a proposed TG is different
from the already existing Research Committees and/or Working/Thematic Groups of
the ISA.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">If your application to establish a Thematic
Group is submitted before January 15, 2013 it will be discussed at the RCC
meeting in March 2013.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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<div>Prof.Andrea Pitasi</div>
<div>Author of THE HYPERHUMAN WORLD </div>
<div><a href="http://www.wcsaglobal.org/images/iperumano.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.wcsaglobal.org/images/iperumano.pdf</a></div>
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<div>Tenured Associate of Legal Systems and Social Complexity at Gabriele d'Annunzio University</div>
<div>Editor in Chief of the System Theory and Complexity Book Series published by Aracne</div>
<div>(<a href="http://www.ibs.it/collana/Teoria+dei+sistemi+e+complessit%26agrave%3B/Aracne/teoria+dei+sistemi+e+complessita.html" target="_blank">http://www.ibs.it/collana/Teoria+dei+sistemi+e+complessit%26agrave%3B/Aracne/teoria+dei+sistemi+e+complessita.html</a>)</div>
<div>Life Honorary President of the World Complexity Science Academy - WCSA (<a href="http://www.wcsaglobal.org/" target="_blank">www.wcsaglobal.org</a>) </div>
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