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The main ethical challenges that arise for Information Sciences (with the daily use in different areas of Big Data applications) are not about the reliability of its professionals to carry out tasks in the organization area in an impartial way or about the obligation to train themselves technologically in the area of Data Science. The most important problems are related to the concept of moral responsibility, especially from a metaethical perspective, in line with the reflection of the implementation of technology with respect to human autonomy. In this paper it is stated that the challenges of Big Data go beyond the individual spectrum of responsibility of a professional in Information Sciences (specifically, due to the negative social consequences), so that the changes brought about by massive data sets are essentially problems of a group ethics, so they require approaches from the theoretical postulates of these disciplines. In addition to this, the moral challenges in dealing with Big Data are usually approached from applied ethics (such as information ethics), but in this article it will be approached as a problem of metaethics and normative ethics (as a foundation for its application in professional codes), and also from some ideas of digital hermeneutics and the philosophy of technology.
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RESUMEN La designación tecnologías convergentes hace referencia a la confluencia de la iencia computacional con campos tecnocientíficos como la Nanotecnología, la Biotecnología y las Ciencias Cognitivas. El objetivo de este trabajo es señalar y analizar los vínculos que guardan estas tecnologías convergentes con la Bibliotecología -que también recurre al uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación-, ya sea en términos metodológicos, conceptuales o de aplicación. Como principal conclusión se deduce que la Nanotecnología, la Biotecnología y las Ciencias Cognitivas han reconfigurado, en los últimos años, sus propios conceptos de información. Esto ha hecho que profesionales de otras disciplinas, que tienen por objeto de estudio a la información, se detengan a re-pensar su naturaleza, dinámica y utilización.
ABSTRACT The denomination convergent technologies refers to the confluence of computational science with techno-scientific fields such as nanotechnology, biotechnology and cognitive sciences. The objective of this work is to point out and analyze the links that these convergent technologies keep with Library Science (which also uses the information and communication technologies), either in methodological, conceptual or application terms. The main conclusion is that both nanotechnology, biotechnology and cognitive sciences have reconfigured their own conceptuation of information in recent years. This has caused professionals from other disciplines, who study information, to stop to rethink its nature, dynamics and use.
