Masterclass with Professor Steve Fuller

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In sum, information science used to have a lot of promise. It had aspirations of being a meta discipline that organized the knowledge of other disciplines in a systematic way. But eventually, it gave up its theoretical goals and began welcoming the knowledge of other disciplines and making it its own without analyzing it or challenging it. In this lecture, Fuller is calling students to consider their rich past and claim it as their own. He wants them to reclaim their seat of honor, which was lost by previous generations but now stands ready for the taking. As Steve notes at the end of the video, the time is “ripe.”