The leading theme of this year’s conference are information infrastructure and services and their usage in the era of evolving changes, both technological and social ones. These changes are of often defined as digital revolution. Conference themes cover a wide range of theoretical and practical aspects concerning: modern tools and methods of information activities, information and knowledge organization, the shaping of information architecture, the analysis and evaluation of new technologies applied in the social transfer of information and knowledge and their reception among users. We also want to discuss the context of the evolution of Information Science as a subfield of Media and Communication. The discussions will focus on the following themes:

digital revolution in science, culture, and education
digital revolution in libraries, archives, and museums
digital revolution in business and public administration
management and application of Big Data in science, business, politics, and culture
smart technologies in modern information services
Internet of Things, Internet of Services
smart cities, smart homes, smart devices
mobile information services
social media and online communities
organization of access to research data
visualization of information
security of information
open science, open publishing, open data
knowledge organization towards the challenges of the evolving digital revolution
information management towards the challenges of the evolving digital revolution
information policy towards the challenges of the evolving digital revolution
information ethics towards the challenges of the evolving digital revolution
ecology of information towards the challenges of the evolving digital revolution
users of modern information infrastructure and services
media and information literacy towards the challenges of the evolving digital revolution
Information Science as a subfield of Media and Communication
evolution of the subjects of research in Information Science
evolution of research methods in Information Science
new concepts of information professionals’ education
social and philosophical aspects of modern information technology and information services development