...Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt; Hans Dam Christensen; Berndt Clavier; Lisa Engström; Rikke Lie Halberg; Nanna Kann-Rasmussen Purpose Democracy is often invoked as a core value of public libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) in Western countries. This article starts from the proposition...

... and citizens, because democracy is an unfinished project. Originality/value By situating the neutrality–social justice debate within broader political theory, this paper reveals its parallels with the tension between liberalism (neutrality) and state perfectionism (social justice). It further grounds...

...Fredrik Hanell Purpose How democracy is understood depends on the theoretical perspective applied. Even so, public library research often takes the concept of democracy for granted. This article explores how democracy is theoretically understood in recent research on public libraries...

... a market-driven framework. Fourth, political freedom, where libraries serve as platforms for participatory democracy, enabling citizens to take part in the management and development of their local libraries. Originality/value This paper provides insights into various perspectives on freedom within...

... profession magazines in a ten-year period is conducted, focusing on the problematizations of for all using the WPR approach: What’s the Problem Represented to be? Theories on public sphere and democracy frequently applied in Library and Information Science (LIS) are discussed in relation...

... investigated libraries’ legitimisation efforts across various dimensions, examining how they employ rhetoric and theories to maintain legitimacy amidst challenging circumstances. Findings Through this research process, five dimensions of public library legitimacy emerged; (1) Democracy, (2) Culture...

.../methodology/approach Five group interviews conducted with public librarians in southern Sweden are analyzed using a typology of four perspectives on democracy. Findings Two perspectives on democracy are commonly represented: social-liberal democracy, focusing on libraries as promoters of equality...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Democracy Library and information science Fake news Habermas Disinformation Systematically distorted communication There is a massive amount of research and analysis on fake news...

... Neutrality Librarianship Democracy Neutrality has traditionally been posited as one of the core values of librarianship but has thoroughly been questioned as of lately (Gerolami, 2020 ; Lankes, 2020 ; Lewis, 2008 ; Mathiasson and Jochumsen, 2021 , 2022 ; Wenzler, 2019). This especially holds...

... increases, citizens living in the same country come to hold very different values. It has been pointed out that these widely differing values make dialogue and compromise difficult, and that democracy is beginning to malfunction as a result (Reich, 2012). In addition to strictly economic stratification...

... Licensed re-use rights only Public libraries Democracy Public sphere LIS Jürgen Habermas Civil sphere Jeffrey Alexander John Buschman Masanori Koizumi Michael Widdersheim Lately, there has been a debate in this journal regarding the role of Jürgen Habermas' (1989[1962]) public...

... of the credibility, empathic accessibility, and fundamental worth of our fellow democratic citizens. Librarians' obligation to protect and promote democracy, therefore, provides practitioners with a crucial justification for recommending diverse books to all readers, even (and perhaps especially) those who actively...

... from another perspective in order to deepen and shift that research discourse. Public sphere Democracy Operationalism Law of the instrument Jürgen Habermas’ (1989) concept of the public sphere has been enormously influential: “Few books of the second half of the twentieth century have...

... meetings. Few studies have empirically analyzed the role of libraries in upholding a democratic and sustainable public sphere. This study contributes in filling that gap. Public libraries Democracy Public sphere Citizenship information Community meeting place Social role of libraries...

...John Buschman Purpose Library and Information Science (LIS) has seen an explosion of responses to fake news in the aftermath of the 2016 US election, political in nature, eschewing “neutrality” supporting democracy. The purpose of this paper is to trace the definition of fake news, the challenges...

...Johanna Rivano Eckerdal The agonistic reading of two central concepts in library and information studies, namely, libraries and information literacy is fruitful and shows how the discipline may contribute to strengthen democracy in society both within institutions as libraries and in other...

...Stuart Hannabuss Richard   Rogers . Information Politics on the Web . Cambridge, MA and London : MIT Press   2004 . xi +200 pp. , ISBN: 0 262 18242 4 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Information policy Internet Democracy Once upon a time...

...: one volume US$300.00 and three volumes US$900.00 (reductions for early orders) , ISBN: 1542‐4049 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Government Democracy Politics Internet E‐government and e‐democracy are areas where politics and political marketing converge...