1. 7 th November 2007INFuture 20071 Is Information Science still a Social Science? Miroslav Tuđman mtudman@ffzg.hr Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Department for Information Sciences Chair of Knowledge Organization

2. 7 th November 2007INFuture 20072 Introduction in the media: –information is a basic potential of social, economic and technological development –information technology necessary in all sectors –ICT leads to globalization –to have information = to have power and monopol

3. 7 th November 2007INFuture 20073 ? How is knowledge society defined on a national level Information Communication Technologies Information Economy Information goal social and cultural development information / knowledge society main development forces/engines

4. 7 th November 2007INFuture 20074 Information Science – project priority information globalization – information weaponry → information warfare (Net War) cyberspace – a change in public knowledge sphere –monopole of personal interests –! NO validation criteria according to objectivity and truthfulness of information

5. 7 th November 2007INFuture 20075... Is truthful and objective knowledge still the foundation of Information Science? What makes a scientific paradigm of Information Science?

6. 7 th November 2007INFuture 20076 Information Science should contribute to a moral, spiritual and mental development of social community → a contribution that cannot be measured by technical and quantitative parameters IS – a social science with a field of interest in knowledge management and knowledge organization

7. 7 th November 2007INFuture 20077...continuum information: –being false more and more –being objective less and less –lost the meaning knowledge: –not a goal anymore –exists if having a market value –produced if economically worth

8. 7 th November 2007INFuture 20078 21 st century Information Science deals no more with the real world – it deals with cyberspace, the digital world 20 th century IS paradigm is fadin away in the virtual world IS referring to information society only in order to ensure a status of a contemporary and lucrative field IS tool cyberspace

9. 7 th November 2007INFuture 20079 information is half way from data to knowledge information = a result of data processing in formal languages, ! does NOT result in cognitive functions informationdataknowledge

10. 7 th November 2007INFuture 200710 Sources cultural heritage hystory museums archives neglected by the society as a waste virtual world !

11. 7 th November 2007INFuture 200711 Society supervision and control public knowledge corpus different in cyberspace –public only if exchanged and established in the public sphere –mass media or the Internet does NOT! promote objectiveness and truthfulness, BUT serves mainly to subject to certain entities supporting mainstream values –public knowledge is not an objective and truthful knowledge

12. 7 th November 2007INFuture 200712 Conclusion IS should have it’s foundations in objectiveness and truthfulness of knowledge IS should rely on tradition stretching from antic philosophy to humanism and enlightenment → universal values truth and welfare being THE values the truth MUST be independent

13. 7 th November 2007INFuture 200713... conclusion digital world relies on reproduction and simulation with no human control globalization restricts human freedom to technology, tourism, market and information Should Information Science rely on universal or global values???

14. 7 th November 2007INFuture 200714 The End. Thank You for Your Attention! Questions?