This paper pays attention to the recent increase of information convergence research in higher
education and asks if a common focus on information is enough to bind the diverse components
involved in convergence research together. It is pointed out that the concept of information is so
widely varied across disciplines, and is understood by each research community in such a
different way, that it can hardly serve as a “boundary object” that binds the diverse
interdisciplinary components together to attain a shared goal. Therefore, this paper argues that a
common focus on information is not enough to sustain information convergence research, and
attention also should be given to the various underlying social forces for the success of those
efforts. Lastly, this paper suggests several research directions that would promote sustainability of
information convergence research.