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The death of the user. Sponsored by SIG HFIS, CRIT

✍ Scribed by Howard Rosenbaum; Elisabeth Davenport; Leah A. Lievrouw; Ronald E. Day

Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 203 KB
Volume: 40
Category: Article
ISSN: 0044-7870
DOI: 10.1002/meet.1450400153

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This panel critically investigates the theoretical and practical issues involved with the wellestablished concept of “the user” in Library and Information Science. It suggests that digital information and communication technologies and systems are theoretically and practically undermining this concept, a concept that was already weak in its ability to fully account for agency in many events of information and knowledge.

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