Juliana Mestre wins the 2025 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information

October 22, 2025
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Rory Litwin, rory@litwinbooks.com

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information. We are granting this year’s award to Juliana Mestre, a PhD candidate at the Rutgers University, based on her dissertation project, titled, “A Post-Structuralist Approach to Informational Being, Knowing, and Caring.”

The award committee stated:

“Juliana Mestre’s concept of Post-Structural Information Realism stands out as a significant contribution to the conceptual and critical tradition of Information Science. Her (re)readings of IS classics such as Shannon & Weiner, and also more contemporary information philosophers such as Luciano Floridi provides a challenging and highly original questioning of a structuralist tradition of thought that has dominated Information Science development since the mid twentieth century. It is time to reevaluate and perhaps replace these conceptual models in relation to our current informational environments, and Mestre is at the forefront of this conceptual renewal. Her work will resonate through Information Science in years to come.“

The award consists of $1000 and a certificate suitable for framing.

Since this award is for ongoing research, other applicants who are still working on their dissertations will be eligible to enter their work next year, and we encourage them to do so.

For more information about the award, please visit https://litwinbooks.com/grants-and-awards/doctoral-award/.