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Author: Jack Andersen
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2015-02-18
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1784412546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book highlights the important role genre theory plays within information studies. It illustrates how modern genre studies inform and enrich the study of information, and conversely how the study of information makes its own independent contributions to the study of genre.
Author: John D. McDonald
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-03-15
Total Pages: 5538
ISBN-13: 1000031543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, comprising of seven volumes, now in its fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major researchers and practitioners and explores the cultural institutions of more than 30 countries. This major reference presents over 550 entries extensively reviewed for accuracy in seven print volumes or online. The new fourth edition, which includes 55 new entires and 60 revised entries, continues to reflect the growing convergence among the disciplines that influence information and the cultural record, with coverage of the latest topics as well as classic articles of historical and theoretical importance.
Author: William Aspray
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-05-14
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 153818382X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is not a book about the history of computing or the history of information. Instead, it is a meta-historical book about the research and writing of these types of history. The formal presentation of historical research in the form of a publication often hides the process by which the topic was selected, boundaries were drawn, evidence was selected, analytic approach was chosen and applied, results were presented, how this work fits into a larger body of scholarship, the implicit goals and biases of the author, and many other similar issues. This process of learning about the various ways to carry out computer history or information history can be enriched by this collection of reflective essays by experienced scholars, discussing the craft that they practice. This is a book that concerns both computer history and information history. The first scholarship in computer history by professionally trained scholars began to appear in the 1970s, so we are approaching a half century of research and publication in this area. The field has generated numerous pieces of exemplary scholarship from various perspectives such as intellectual history of individual technologies, business histories of firms, economic histories of market sectors, externalist histories of funding and professionalization, and so on. However, the field continues to evolve, especially as computing and communication technologies have drawn together in the form of the Internet and social media; and with them a new set of scholars is participating, drawn not only from the history of science and technology, but also from the communication and media studies fields. Powerful theories, approaches, and frameworks are being increasingly drawn more widely from both the humanities and the social sciences to inform the practice of computer history. The scholars in this volume look at what’s happened, what’s happening now, and where historical scholarship in these disciplines is headed.
Author: Blaise Cronin
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781573873086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKARIST, published annually since 1966, is a landmark publication within the information science community. It surveys the landscape of information science and technology, providing an analytical, authoritative, and accessible overview of recent trends and significant developments. The range of topics varies considerably, reflecting the dynamism of the discipline and the diversity of theoretical and applied perspectives. While ARIST continues to cover key topics associated with classical information science (e.g., bibliometrics, information retrieval), editor Blaise Cronin is selectively expanding its footprint in an effort to connect information science more tightly with cognate academic and professional communities.
Author: Kristofer Hansson
Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
Published: 2020-11-20
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9188909360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant's desk and then on to a policymaker. These movements matter: value judgements on the validity of certain forms of knowledge determine the direction of clinical research, and policy decisions are taken in relation to existing knowledge. The complexity of medical information and its wider effects is the focus of Movement of knowledge. The authors address the pervasive influence of knowledge in medical and public health settings and scrutinize a range of methodological and theoretical tools to study knowledge. They take a multidisciplinary approach to the medical humanities, presenting both contemporary and historical perspectives in order to explore the borderlands between expertise and common knowledge. Medical knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves between patients, health providers, and society at large. The acceptance or rejection of treatment protocols based on medical 'facts' has a fundamental impact on us all.
Author: Jack Andersen
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 178714531X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough different theoretical and analyses glasses, this book critically examines the organization of knowledge as it is involved in matters of digital communication, the social, cultural, and political consequences of classifying, and how particular historical contexts shape ideas of information and what information to classify and record.
Author: Fidelia Ibekwe
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1787567176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the history of Library and Information Science (LIS) across non-English speaking European countries, including France, ex-Yugoslavia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Spain and Portugal.
Author: Thomas Kenny
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1666907367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates whether Facebook and Twitter have become a genre, particularly for higher education institutions. The author examines the purpose, form, and functionality of higher education's institutional web pages on these platforms through a combination of content analysis and interviews.
Author: Kasper Bro Larsen
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2015-10-28
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 3647536199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent decades New Testament scholarship has developed an increasing interest in how the Gospel of John interacts with literary conventions of genre and form in the ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman context. The present volume brings together leading scholars in the field in order to discuss the status quaestionis and to identify new exegetical frontiers. In the Fourth Gospel, genres and forms serve as vehicles of ideological and theological meaning. The contributions to this volume aim at demonstrating how awareness of ancient and modern genre theories and practices advances our understanding of the Fourth Gospel, both in terms of the text as a whole (gospel, ancient biography, drama, romance, etc.) and in terms of the various literary tiles that contribute to the Gospel's genre mosaic.
Author: Tim Gorichanaz
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1839093684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSI 14 provides a rigorous theoretical foundation for the study of information experience, an emerging field within Information Science. With particular focus on information behavior and literacy, it explores the importance and implications of individual user experience through the themes of understanding, meaning, and self.
