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Year: 2025

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Sheng-Hsiang Lance Peng

Rationalists, Zizians, and the Search for Truth: How Does Information Shape Belief?

Zizians, an emerging and loosely defined intellectual network, hold anarchist beliefs, emphasise animal rights and veganism, and promote a non-dualistic understanding of consciousness, including the idea that the hemispheres of the brain can have different genders and conflicting interests. This perspective challenges conventional Western assumptions about individual identity, rationality, and the pursuit of knowledge. By looking into how these two communities approach information, one can better understand their impact on contemporary discussions, from scientific discourse to digital subcultures.

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Angelica Lo Duca

Transforming Data Visualization into Data Storytelling: The S-DIKW Framework

In a landscape saturated with data, the challenge lies in making information meaningful. How data is structured, visualized, and contextualized determines whether it merely informs or truly influences perception and decision-making. However, raw data alone does not communicate meaning. Traditional data visualizations, such as bar charts, scatter plots, and heat maps, often fail to engage audiences emotionally and cognitively. This is where data storytelling emerges as a transformative approach.

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FeaturedInfoFire
Shalini Urs

LLMs, AI, and the Future of Research Evaluation: A Conversation with Mike Thelwall on Informetrics and Research Impact

In this episode of InfoFire, I sit down with Professor Mike Thelwall, a well accomplished scholar of Informetrics, to explore the intersections of Large Language Models (LLMs) and research evaluation. We delve into how LLMs are reshaping the landscape of research assessment, examining the promises they hold and the challenges they present in ensuring fair, meaningful, and context-aware evaluations.

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Fatima Espinoza Vasquez

Transforming Ourselves, Transforming Inequity: Reimagining Partnerships for Information Justice

Thinking of communities as “information poor” misrepresents the reality of systemic exclusion. Instead, marginalized communities have been intentionally and unintentionally excluded from mainstream information infrastructures. This exclusion is not due to a lack of knowledge on the part of marginalized communities but rather a reflection of structural barriers that limit access to institutionalized information flows. We need to recognize the existence and prevalence of information precarity, and then we need to radically alter how we plan and carry out projects, research, and outreach with—not for—marginalized communities.

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Meghan Dowell

The Cost of Clicks: Cultivating Data-Awareness and Ethical LMS Practices in Higher Education 

Many educational institutions use learning management systems (LMSs), which may track and analyze a student’s every click, assignment submission, and even location; this also makes them useful for learning analytics, the collection and analysis of student data in the name of supporting learning and teaching. While students may know that LMSs collect their data, they often don’t understand the extent of just how much data these systems collect! Yet, it’s not hard to imagine what the scope of LMS data collection means for student privacy. This imbalance highlights the urgent need for greater transparency and critical data education in the use of educational technologies. 

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EditorialFeatured
Chirag Shah

Here Come Agents

An agent is an autonomous entity or program that takes preferences, instructions, or other forms of inputs from a user to accomplish specific tasks on their behalf. And there is a huge hype around agents these days, thanks to advancements in various GenAI technologies. As big and small companies and individual developers continue investing heavily in development and deployment of agents, we are often missing some of the basic considerations, including what problems are we solving and how users, their tasks, and their contexts are incorporated in these developments.

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