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Information and Communication Science: The Epistemological Status

Hidri A

This paper investigates the issue of the epistemic situation of information and communication sciences, and tries to discover the reality of the theoretical hierarchy of this new field of knowledge. The features of this new field started to appear in the second half of the twentieth century, mainly in Europe. The study looks also at the interdisciplinary aspects and processes between sciences, and which represents the first characteristic of the field of information and communication sciences. The paper discovers the most important trend which can be resulted from interdisciplinary processes between sciences which is the convergence of sciences. This trends reflects the reality of complexity which requires communication between sciences. The field of information and communication is; therefore, a field of knowledge that continues to build up theoretically and epistemologically in the realm of interdisciplinary processes and convergence. It is also a field that shows strongly the reality of complexity in the information and communication phenomena and other social, mechanical and natural phenomena as well, as mentioned by Edgar Morin.