From pedroc.marijuan at gmail.com Tue Sep 19 14:03:23 2023 From: pedroc.marijuan at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Pedro_C=2e_Mariju=c3=a1n?=) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:03:23 +0200 Subject: [Fis] News from the Beijing Conference Message-ID: Dear FIS Colleagues, In the middle of this August, the Fourth IS4SI Conference took place in Beijing. Its focus was on ?Paradigm Change in the Information Discipline?. It was a very interesting venue, with close to 200 participants in person and online (mostly Chinese--not many from abroad). Our colleague Yixin Zhong was the main organizer; he presented a couple of challenging works on paradigm change in AI as well as in the whole Information Science. Indeed they deserve careful discussion and probably we will have the opportunity soon, for I am trying to arrange a FIS session on AI both on the conceptual side and on the social impact. My role as co-chair of IS4SI for this conference was centered in the exploratory works for an International Academy of Information Studies. It is an attempt to attract and articulate more permanently the best minds ?the world avant-garde of scholars and researchers? of the related information fields.The ongoing works were presented--provisionally, for the Academy is not public yet. Indeed more and more scholars and researchers are convening on the importance of the unsolved conundrums around information, a pitfall of our collective knowledge system. Can we be optimistic that the "paradigm change" is taking place?? I hope more news will follow soon. Best regards to all, --Pedro -------------------------------- -- Este correo electr?nico ha sido analizado en busca de virus por el software antivirus de Avast. https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.avast.com__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WQXKDqMZ0cqMXjX8dHAlyE4Rgp7GPMKhl531uw1ZBHkCr2XSPY3CAIIjLcP0qyaOF342UCU3JSwjblPaRG49aLOG-CCB$ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: