... at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Research work Information science Education Evolution Interdisciplinarity Scientific change Recently, it has been shown that authors from other disciplines contribute increasingly to LIS (Chang, 2019 ; Chang and Huang, 2012 ; Lund...

...Chao Zhang; Fang Wang; Yi Huang; Le Chang Purpose This paper aims to reveal the interdisciplinarity of information science (IS) from the perspective of the evolution of theory application. Design/methodology/approach Select eight representative IS journals as data sources, extract...

... in studying cultural information evolution and information diffusion through memetics. Information studies in memetics have often found datafication in memetics research difficult. Meanwhile, current memetic scholarship elsewhere is abundant in data due to their focus on Internet artifacts. This paper offers...

... information. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores the evolution of physical, social and cultural boundaries and considers how they have shaped ways in which information is gathered and used. Findings – Several evolutionary developments are reviewed. The paper argues that each one has...

... (Bates, 2006, pp. 1035-1037). In this way physical, biological, and cultural information would not only emerge one from the other in time, but would also be included one in the other at a given temporal instant. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Evolution Information Hypertexts...

...Allen Foster © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Information Information retrieval Human resource development Evolution Information science Behaviour Published by Springer this compact nine chapter, 84 page text introduces Professor Spink's approach to the challenge...

...David Bawden Introduces the first in a new series of articles under the heading “Speculations in documentation”. The initial article, on “Evolution and information”, is set in the context of debates as to the reality and significance of the link between the growth and development of human...

... was derived from the environment as a direct result of the evolution of organisms that used other organisms as a food source. Only with the evolution of sexual reproduction did it become necessary for organisms to be aware of others of the same species. It is argued that one of the consequences...