Communication - Information Matters

In recent years we have been witnessing more and more a spectacularisation of information, in the sense that we are no longer interested in the information itself but rather in the emotional reaction it produces in the audience that uses it. Hence, the term infotainment, which is the combination of two words: information and entertainment.

Education Featured

March 30, 2023 Dr. Shalini R. Lihitkar

The Open Access Movement: Opportunities and Hurdles

The Open Access movement is the movement to make available or publish scholarly literature on the internet to readers free of charge and free of unnecessary licensing restrictions.

Featured Translation

March 11, 2023 Najeem Olawale Adelakun

Impact Of Information and Communication Technology on Students’ Academic Performance

We studied the benefits, challenges and prospects of Electronic Learning System using two research processes administered to students and lecturers, and the findings of their study show that information technology will improve performance and lead to greater productivity when standard IT infrastructure is installed.

Professional Development

January 23, 2023 Aylin Imeri

Professional Development—Ways To Go

Highlights from the ASIS&T Annual Meeting panel, titled “Professional Development in Crisis,” that discussed empowering students and professionals in their early career stages and making them more resilient in a hyper-competitive society and uncertain world.

Op/Ed

January 18, 2023 Naresh Agarwal

The world loses a treasure: My interactions with Brenda Dervin

Brenda Dervin, one of the foremost thinkers of our time, died in Seattle, Washington as the year ended on December 31, 2022. She was 85. Along with her Sense-Making Methodology, cats and birds, and interest in reading, writing, poetry, art, and music, among others, she was passionate about “humans who commit their lives to justice and the improvement of the human condition”. She wrote in her university bio, “On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I consider myself a postmodern modernist. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, a modern postmodernist. On Saturdays, I rest.” She died on a Saturday.

Editorial

December 8, 2022 Chirag Shah

The Rise of AI Chat Agents and the Discourse with Dilettantes

ChatGPT is a simple-to-use conversation agent developed by OpenAI. Of course, this is not the first time we have seen an AI agent that generates information. Google’s LaMDA and Meta’s Galactica are some recent examples for text generation.

Translation

September 10, 2022 Oladipo Sunday

Ethical Dilemma in Artificial Intelligence: A Focus on Natural Language Processing bias

Ethical dilemma is a common problem for humans, but this is as true for humans as it is for machines. Hence, machines need to be enhanced to make the optimal decision in the face of ethical dilemma.

Education Opinion

June 28, 2022 Kosmas Deligkaris

Wikis: A Viable Platform for Supporting Academic Research Operations

Modern collaborative Wiki platforms can be used to support and facilitate the research process, and to provide a starting point for the efficient implementation of a knowledge management system in academic research settings.