Introduction to the Special Issue ICTs and Society - A New Transdiscipline? What Kind of Academic Field Do We Need to Meet the Challenges of the Information Age?

Brenner, Joseph E.; Raffl, Celina

doi:10.31269/vol9iss2pp593-597

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“…The conclusion of an on-line debate on this question [30] in regard to ICTs-and-Society was generally favorable. Whether the use of the term conflicts with a definition of transdisciplinarity which is also supposed to be beyond all disciplines is for me a secondary question, perhaps best answered pragmatically by reference to transdisciplinary openness itself.…”

Section: B) Potential Societal Functionmentioning

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Systems and Information: A Transdisciplinary Study

Brenner¹

2013

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T his paper summarizes some current views of transdisciplinarity, in particular the theory and methodology of transdisciplinarity in the approach of Basarab Nicolescu. His conception of the Logic of Transdisciplinarity suggests that explicit reference should be made to it in transdisciplinary studies. I first develop this idea in a critique of current systems science and thinking. Nicolescu has stated that transdisciplinarity is not a paradigm. However, transdisciplinary methodology may nevertheless be an essential part of an emerging informational paradigm. In this paper, I claim that in fact information cannot be properly understood without using what is effectively a transdisciplinary methodology. I describe the philosophy of information of Wu Kun and his concept of informational thinking and contrast it with standard systems thinking. In Wu's approach, the philosophy and ethics of information are eminently transdisciplinary. I suggest that transdisciplinary practice and informational thinking are essential ways of furthering the common good.

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Systems and Information: A Transdisciplinary Study

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2013

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“…With regard to ontological status of transdisciplinary research, Brenner argues "transdisciplinarity should not be seen as yet another discipline but as an aid to legitimizing and insuring a minimum scientific rigor in creative new approaches to on-going issues." (Brenner & Raffl 2011) To this day, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity is hardly seen at universities, and their slow introduction happens indirectly through courses addressing e.g. sustainability.…”

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Transdisciplinarity Seen Through Information, Communication, Computation, (Inter-)Action and Cognition

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Information Studies and the Quest for Transdisciplinarity

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Similar to oil that acted as a basic raw material and key driving force of industrial society, information acts as a raw material and principal mover of knowledge society in the knowledge production, propagation and application. New developments in information processing and information communication technologies allow increasingly complex and accurate descriptions, representations and models, which are often multi-parameter, multiperspective, multi-level and multidimensional. This leads to the necessity of collaborative work between different domains with corresponding specialist competences, sciences and research traditions. We present several major transdisciplinary unification projects for information and knowledge, which proceed on the descriptive, logical and the level of generative mechanisms. Parallel process of boundary crossing and transdisciplinary activity is going on in the applied domains. Technological artifacts are becoming increasingly complex and their design is strongly user-centered, which brings in not only the function and various technological qualities but also other aspects including esthetic, user experience, ethics and sustainability with social and environmental dimensions. When integrating knowledge from a variety of fields, with contributions from different groups of stakeholders, numerous challenges are met in establishing common view and common course of action. In this context, information is our environment, and informational ecology determines both epistemology and spaces for action. We present some insights into the current state of the art of transdisciplinary theory and practice of information studies and informatics. We depict different facets of transdisciplinarity as we see it from our different research fields that include information studies, computability, human-computer interaction, multi-operatingsystems environments and philosophy.

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Introduction to the Special Issue ICTs and Society - A New Transdiscipline? What Kind of Academic Field Do We Need to Meet the Challenges of the Information Age?

Abstract: Introduction to the Special Issue ICTs and Society - A New Transdiscipline? What Kind of Academic Field Do We Need to Meet the Challenges of the Information Age?

Cited by 2 publications

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Systems and Information: A Transdisciplinary Study

Systems and Information: A Transdisciplinary Study

Transdisciplinarity Seen Through Information, Communication, Computation, (Inter-)Action and Cognition

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