The following activities marked the fifth day of 10th EIICA:
Plenary Conferences
Big Data, Merging, Re-Contextualization, and Database Semantics: Birger Hjorland (University of Copenhagen / Denmark).
The professor presented results of his research that deals with the relationship between concepts such as data, information, knowledge and documents in the contemporary context of discussions pertinent to Big Data. He also explained potential impacts of the Big Data on the secure access to information by digital network users, in contrast to the access of scientific articles in journals devoted to the dynamics of public opinion formation on specific themes and / or issues. The presentation was held through a virtual room on the Big Blue Button platform of the Laboratory on Social Self-Organization of the Complex Systems Digital Campus UniTwin-UNESCO. The virtual room has didactic resources that allow the speaker to make the presentation of their slides and interact at a distance with the participants.
Classifying the Cloud LOD: Deepening the Knowledge Graph: Daniel Martínez-Ávila (UNESP / Marília).
Daniel presented partial results of his research that deals with the dimension of the preservation and access of information in libraries. He emphasized the sexist nature of such a process of preservation and access to information, since it has historically constituted, through a masculine perspective, based on the binarity of socially established gender. It also presented a counterexample illustrated by the Cora Coralina Feminist Library, located in the eastern part of the city of São Paulo, which is concerned with offering diverse types of access to information from experiences and visions of the world of women.
Synecoculture and Megadiversity Management System: Masatoshi Funabashi (Sony Computer Science Laboratories / Japan).
The researcher presented, through the Internet, results of the application of planting techniques based on multiculturalism and biodiversity involving the use of ubiquitous computational information technology and Big Data. He stressed the economic impacts of the application of such techniques and argued in favor of the need to use them in order to avoid the devastating effects of climate change and the large migrations that are likely to occur.
An analysis of the impact of Big Data on society: Ricardo César Gonçalves Santana (UNESP / Tupã).
Ricardo dealt with ethical and political impacts of communication and information technologies, especially those that collect, analyze and employ massive amounts of data produced by the users of cellular telephony and the Internet. He emphasized technical aspects involved in this type of practice, alerting to risks of threat to users’ privacy.
Learning to learn in times of Big Data: Plácida Leopoldina Ventura Amorim da Costa Santos (UNESP / Marília).
The speaker addressed novelties arising from the transformation of education and learning in the context of digital social media. Initially, she presented the four pillars of education for the twenty-first century published by Unesco. She reflected on these principles in the light of new possibilities of communication in social networks, questioning to what extent such possibilities would accompany the revolution underlying the development of large data mining techniques. The speaker also presented questions about the displacement of the presence of the individual in social networks, which raises questions of great importance regarding the learning and development of the human being in the face of new digital devices.
The New Biotechnologies and the Anthropological Question: Moral Implications (Closing Conference): Ivan Domingues (UFMG). Debater: Alfredo Pereira Jr. (UNESP / Marília – Botucatu).
The lecturer presented a philosophical study on the ethical issues involved in the technique in general, and specifically in biotechnology. He developed a historical trajectory on the concept of technology in Western philosophy from the Greeks, emphasizing the hypothesis of overcoming the limits of human capacities through technique. Finally, he contextualized his analysis on the problem of the transhumanist project of alleged improvement of the human being through the use of new contemporary technologies (informational, biochemical, genetic).
Symposium
Big Data, Social Networks and Language: any addition to the study of information?
Information Science in transformation: Big date and social networks: Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation / Rio de Janeiro).
The speaker presented a broad study on the impacts of various information and communication technologies, including Big Data, in the information sciences. The professor emphasized technical aspects of the use of Big Data and its possible implications in several areas of information science, especially in the field of knowledge organization.
The Bigdatian domain: Antonio Sérgio Nunes (UFPA).
The professor presented a case study that exemplifies the centralization of information in a university environment, and its consequent decrease in the degree of autonomy of students, teachers and institutes. He pointed out the increase in the number of problematic occurrences and conflicts that could be avoided without the use of digital mechanical structures in university communication
Observatory of Digital Humanities, Complexity and Ethics 