Special Luhmann Conference 2025 issue of Information Technology & People on the theme of “Coding Society: Programmatic Encounters Between Information Systems and Social Theory”
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Contributions
- Dinesh Kumar and Nidhi Suthar: Programmes as decision premises in AI-mediated organisations: a social systems theory perspective
- Diane Laflamme: Be warned: what counts as ethics is reformatted when ethical programmes are digitized
- Teodor Mladenov: The source code of social theorising: engaging with binary distinctions, concepts and typologies
- Hugo Cadenas: Inequality as a program of the world digital society: on the digitalization and its effects from a Luhmannian perspective
- Michal Kaczmarczyk and Justyna Kopczynska: From Panopticon to Opticon Caecum: the evolution of observational infrastructures
- Dong-hyu Kim: When trust becomes symbolic: standards and the governance of AI
- Rafael Quintero Godínez and Massimo Terenzi: Programmed visibility. Tax reform legitimacy between strategic opacity and platform circulation
- Jesper Tække: Interactivity under generative AI: a systems-theoretical analysis of media transformation
- Shuang Liu: Programmed power: how presets transform decision premises in the platform society
- Margit Neisig: Digital platforms as meta-programmes: reframing inclusion through programmability
- Jens-Henrik Söldner and Albrecht Fritzsche: Organizational autopoiesis and digital platforms in industry – exploring the conditions of self-referential decision-making
- Erik Aal: Programmification – the perspective of system rationality
- Hongxia Peng: Working with coding communication: the digital reframing of work-related meaning processing systems examined from a Luhmannian perspective
- Steffen Roth and Vincent Lien: When programmes disagree about programmes: large language models, code poetry and the problem of programme–programme communication
- Jonathan Harth and Georgios Alexiou: The programmed organization decentralized autonomous organizations and the transformation of organizational decision architectures
- Sergio Jofre and Giedre Sabaliauskaite: Anticipatory resilience in complex systems: a Luhmannian-cybernetic framework for critical infrastructure
Recommended citation: Roth S., Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes T., and Zazar K. (2026). Coding Society: Programmatic Encounters Between Information Systems and Social Theory. Special issue of Information Technology & People, Vol. 39 No. 6.
