[Asis-l] Colloquium Epistemology of Information & Communication - 8 april 2011 Lyon - France
Fidelia Ibekwe
fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-lyon3.fr
Fri Jan 14 02:47:20 EST 2011
*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.
*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: 30EUR*
Registration is effective only if accompanied by payment.
?Registration closes on 25th march 2011?
.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/
PI : Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (ELICO-Université de Lyon3).
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Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Ph.D. (MCF-HDR) '
Associate Professor '
University of Lyon3. '
Dept. of Information - Communication '
Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ '
Research group: http://www.elico-recherche.net/ '
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