[Eurchap] Fwd: Colloquium on the Comparative Epistemology of Information & Communication - Lyon, France

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From: Fidelia Ibekwe <fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-lyon3.fr>
Date: 20 januari 2011 09.26.18 CET
Subject: Colloquium on the Comparative Epistemology of Information & Communication - Lyon, France

Colloquium on the Comparative Epistemology of Information & Communication in scientific disciplines.

8 april 2011, Jean Moulin University, Lyon - France
Room : Amphithéâtre Malraux
website:  http://isko-france.asso.fr/epicic/

Aims & Scope
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Although no consensus exists on a common definition of the concepts of information and communication, few can reject the hypothesis that information – whether perceived as « object » or as « process » - is a pre-condition for knowledge. Epistemology is the study of how we know things (Anglo-Saxon meaning) or the study of how scientific knowledge is arrived at and validated (francophone conception). To adopt an epistemological stance is to commit oneself to render an account of what constitutes knowledge or in procedural terms, to render an account of when one can claim to know something. An epistemological theory imposes constraints on the interpretation of human cognitive interaction with the world. It goes without saying that different epistemological theories will have more or less restrictive criteria to distinguish what constitutes knowledge from what is not. If information is a pre-condition for knowledge acquisition, giving an account of how knowledge is acquired should impact our comprehension of information and communication as concepts. While a lot of work has been in Information & Communication Sciences on the definition of these concepts, less research has attempted to establish explicit links between differing theoretical conceptions of these concepts and the underlying epistemological stances.
This colloquium will gather eminent and renowned specialists from different countries and with different backgrounds to discuss how they and their corresponding disciplines perceive information & communication, the relationship these two concepts share with knowledge and how our comprehension of these two concepts affects interdisciplinary research.
The colloquium is one of the events planned in the context of the EPICIC project funded by the ISCC (Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS). The EPICIC project is led by an international consortium of researchers from the following institutions: ELICO-Lyon3; iSchool of the University of Berkeley; iSchool of the University of Illinois; The L2C2 research team of the Institute for Cognitive Sciences, CNRS-Lyon). 
The colloquium also received some funding by the University of Lyon3 and logistic support from ISKO-France association for hosting the web site.

Invited speakers
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1- Bruno Bachimont, Scientific Advisor, at the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) and Head of Research at the  Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France.
2- Søren Brier, Professeur Semiotics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
3- Jean Davallon, Professor of Information and Communication Sciences, Université d'Avignon, France.
4- Birger Hjorland, Professor, Royal School of Information science, Copenhagen, Denmark
5- Thomas Dousa, Doctoral fellow, Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA.
6- Luciano Floridi, UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics and Profesor at the University of Oxford and Hertfordshire, UK.

7- Sylvie Leleu-Merviel, Professor of Information and Communication Sciences, Université de Lille-Nord and Scientific Advisor for the Ministry of Research and Higher Education, France.
8-  Ira Noveck, Research Director, of the Laboratoire sur le Language, le Cerveau et la Cognition (L2C2) Institut des Sciences Cognitives-CNRS, Lyon, France

Registration
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Fee: 30€
Registration is effective only if accompanied by payment.
The Malraux Amphitéâtre has a limited seating capacity so we advice you not to wait until the last days to register.
Further information on the program, the invited speakers and registration can be found on the website http://isko-france.asso.fr/epicic/
Principal investigator : Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (ELICO- Université de Lyon3).


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Dept. of Information - Communication            '
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Research group: 
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