UID:
almafu_9960073206802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (327 p.)
ISBN:
1-78063-173-1
Serie:
Chandos Information Professional Series
Inhalt:
This book is an introduction to critical and theoretical perspectives on digital information. It outlines the origins of information management in nineteenth-century humanism, the adoption of scientific perspectives in the documentation and information science movements, and modern theoretical frameworks for understanding the social, cultural and political place of digital information. Digital Information Contexts is the first book aimed at information professionals to give a detailed outline of important perspectives on information and meaning, including post-structuralism and post-modernism.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Digital InformationContexts: TheoreticalApproaches toUnderstanding DigitalInformation; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; The context of Contexts; A note on methodology; Notes; About the author; 1 The meaning of information; The fundamental problem; Information, knowledge and being; Notes; 2 Librarianship and print culture; The rise of print culture; The triumph of print culture; Print culture and humanism; The library and humanism; Classification and humanism; The information artefact and weak idealism; Digital information and the heritage of humanism; Notes
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3 Digital information, science and the social sciencesThe progress of science; The theory of science and information science; The cognitive shift in information science; The progress of information science; Notes; 4 Digital information and computer science; Mechanical computing; Logic and computing; Digital computing; The paradigm of computing; The challenge of digital information; Critical issues; Notes; 5 Digital information, language and representation; Digital information and language; Meaning and representation; The problem with strong models of representation
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The later thought of WittgensteinMimesis and language; The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; Critical issues; Notes; 6 Digital information and semiotics; Ferdinand de Saussure; Charles Sanders Peirce; Roman Jakobson; Digital information and semiotics; Semiotics and network structures; Critical issues; Notes; 7 Digital information and post-structuralism; An overview of post-structuralist theory; Information management and post-structuralism; Post-structuralism and classification; Post-structuralism and bibliographic extraction; Post-structuralism and the unity of the information artefact
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Against post-structuralismCritical issues; Notes; 8 Digital information and post-modernism; Two kinds of post-modernism; Jean-François Lyotard and the post-modern condition; Jean Baudrillard and the hyperreal; Francis Fukuyama and post-modern neo-conservatism; Against post-modernism; Post-modernism and digital information; Critical issues; Note; 9 Digital information and complexity; Reductionism and emergence; Complexity and emergence; Complexity and information processing; Symbolic representation and complexity; Complexity and representation; Complexity and digital information
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Against complexityCritical issues; Notes; 10 Understanding digital information; Discourse and the two cultures; Digital information culture; Bibliography and references; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-84334-159-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-84334-169-7
Sprache:
Englisch
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