Information Cultures in the Digital Age

Jared Bielby announced in these days that „Information Cultures in the Digital Age: A Festschrift in Honor of Rafael Capurro“ is complete „and set to be published by Springer in July 2016“ (Information via ICIE mailing list). „Matt Kelly and I have had the privilege of working with some of the most forward thinking scholars of the field during our time as editors for this very important volume on information culture and practice.“ (Information via ICIE mailing list) The Co-chair of the International Center for Information Ethics declared: „For several decades Rafael Capurro has been at the forefront of defining the relationship between information and modernity through both phenomenological and ethical formulations. In exploring both of these themes Capurro has re-vivified the transcultural and intercultural expressions of how we bring an understanding of information to bear on scientific knowledge production and intermediation. Capurro has long stressed the need to look deeply into how we contextualize the information problems that scientific society creates for us and to re-incorporate a pragmatic dimension into our response that provides a balance to the cognitive turn in information science.“ (Information via ICIE mailing list) With contributions from 35 scholars from 15 countries, the book „focuses on the culture and philosophy of information, information ethics, the relationship of information to message, the historic and semiotic understanding of information, the relationship of information to power and the future of information education“ (Information via ICIE mailing list).

Fig.: Selfies belong to the digital age