Digital Information Contexts. Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Digital Information

✍ Scribed by Luke Tredinnick (Auth.)

Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 312
Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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. It explores parallels between information management and media, communication and cultural studies. Each chapter includes recommended further reading to guide the reader to further information. It is a comprehensive introduction to theoretical frameworks for understanding and studying digital information.

General theoretical introduction to digital information management
Explores the application of critical theory, communications and media theory to understanding digital information
Historical and critical perspective

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures and tables, Page ix
Preface, Pages xi-xv
About the author, Page xvii
1 - The meaning of information, Pages 1-24
2 - Librarianship and print culture, Pages 25-51
3 - Digital information, science and the social sciences, Pages 53-83
4 - Digital information and computer science, Pages 85-114
5 - Digital information, language and representation, Pages 115-142
6 - Digital information and semiotics, Pages 143-172
7 - Digital information and post-structuralism, Pages 173-201
8 - Digital information and post-modernism, Pages 203-231
9 - Digital information and complexity, Pages 233-260
10 - Understanding digital information, Pages 261-265
Bibliography and references, Pages 267-295
Index, Pages 297-307

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