Abstract

A Fresh Look: The Social Competence of Information Science

Highlights

  • Three CrossroadsIn today’s world, trends toward improvement in the quality of life are offset by a regression and degradation of the mental and social environment, both in part due to the massive role of information in the society

  • The science and philosophy of information as disciplines are at another, closely related crossroads: they may develop in the direction of integration in an Informational Turn, a new way of Informational Thinking as proposed by Wu Kun [1] that can support efforts toward a Global Sustainable Information Society, in the term of Wolfgang Hofkirchner [2]

  • The sociologist Slavoj Žižek is a devastating critic of the current late-capitalist politico-economic system and its “pseudo-natural logic”

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Summary

Introduction

In today’s world, trends toward improvement in the quality of life are offset by a regression and degradation of the mental and social environment, both in part due to the massive role of information in the society. The science and philosophy of information as disciplines are at another, closely related crossroads: they may develop in the direction of integration in an Informational Turn, a new way of Informational Thinking as proposed by Wu Kun [1] that can support efforts toward a Global Sustainable Information Society, in the term of Wolfgang Hofkirchner [2]. They may diverge or regress in the direction of increasingly socially irresponsible specialization and scholasticism. This paper is, a response to the first question posed in ICT&S 16, namely, “What contradictions, conflicts, ambiguities and dialectics shape the 21st century information society?”

The Problem of Logic – Again and Still
Žižek and Fuchs: A Fresh Look
What Has Happened to the Common Good?
The Social Competence of Information Science
Conclusions

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