[Commlist] cfp - what is information?

*UPDATE: Deadline for proposal submission extended to _JANUARY 24, 2020_!*

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*WHAT IS INFORMATION? • **University of Oregon Portland • **April 30–May 
2, 2020 • *whatis.uoregon.edu <https://whatis.uoregon.edu/>

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*/What is Information?/**(2020)*will investigate conceptualizations and 
implementations of information via material, representational, and 
hybrid frames. The conference-experience will consider information and 
its transformational /effects /and/affects/—from documents to data; from 
facts and fictions to pattern recognition; from physical information to 
differential equations; and from volatility, uncertainty, complexity, 
and ambiguity to collective intelligence and wisdom.


The tenth annual /What is…?/examines tapestries, temperaments, and 
topologies of information lenses and practices—including—social and 
technical, mathematical and semantic, physical and biological, economic 
and political, cultural and environmental /information/. Information can 
thus be understood /as/physical, /for/instruction, and /about/epistemic 
systems.


Scholars, government and community officials, industry professionals, 
scientists, artists, students, filmmakers, grassroots community 
organizations, and the public are invited to collaborate. We welcome 
submissions for papers, panels, roundtables and installations.

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*Presentations / panels / installations may include the following topics 
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• What is information? Is it synonymous with data? What distinguishes 
information from knowledge and wisdom?
• What is truth, misinformation, or disinformation? Is information 
material/concrete, symbolic/abstract, or both?
• What are information science and information art? What are 
relationships between STEAM+ and ICT?
• How are the natural sciences and information sciences continuing to 
converge (e.g. bioinformatics, bioinspiration)?
• How do quantum computers differ from binary computers? What are the 
scales and speeds between bits & qubits?
• Is information at the core of music, architecture, design, craft, 
and/or science and technology studies?
• Is biology itself information or only a representation? What are data 
science, cultural analytics & visualization?
• How are informatics enhancing medicine and the environment via 
regenerative systems?
• What is the philosophy of information? What are information literacy, 
ethics, education, & aesthetics?
• What are networks? What are relationships between information, 
technology/media, and communication?
• What are information ecologies, information environments, and how 
do/can they facilitate public good?
• What is political economy of information? How do information and 
socio-cultural factors æffect each other?
• What are current approaches to the study of information professions, 
audiences, and psychology?
• How does information highlight gender, race, indigenous, and/or global 
environmental concerns?
• How can contemplation, empathy, kindness, and/or responsibility be 
studied via information?
• What are patterns of digital divides? What comes after an era of 
meta-data, post-truth, and pattern recognition?
• What are data-mining, threat detection, and privacy in a 
cyber-physical defense and cybersecurity age?
• Can AI, machine learning, and/or MR help us to adapt to the 
ever-changing transdisciplinary landscape?
• What laws/regulations/policies are appropriate for information? How 
are information and value(s) related?


Conference Organizers: Janet Wasko and Jeremy Swartz (University of Oregon)

*Send 150–200 word abstracts for papers / panels / installations by 
_JANUARY 24, 2020_ to:*
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*Janet Wasko*•(jwasko /at/ uoregon.edu) <mailto:(jwasko /at/ uoregon.edu)>
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University of Oregon • Eugene, Oregon • 97403-1275 • USA

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