... 2024 27 05 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information services Public libraries Librarians Philosophy Politics International politics “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think...

... be contacted at: Juliana.Mestre@rutgers.edu 19 02 2023 28 04 2023 29 04 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Uncertainty Ethics Information theory Philosophy Information science Theory Paradigm Information...

... Greece and the Pre-Socratic period. The Greek origins of sense-making‘s philosophical undercurrents surface again in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit before the idea is picked up again in twentieth century philosophy and library science. Findings This is a conceptual paper and no empirical findings...

... media Philosophy Generation and dissemination of information Information science Difference Evolution Digital images Memetics This paper offers an approach for studying cultural information evolution through memetics, which is the study of memes. Specifically, memetics looks at memes...

... in IS. This paper conducts a systematic review of representative publications of domain analysis. The analysis considered degree theses, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and other materials. Information science Domain analysis Paradigm Philosophy Knowledge organization...

...-use rights only Kiersten F. Latham can be contacted at: kflatham@msu.edu 02 05 2019 05 02 2020 06 02 2020 Contemplation Contemplative studies Information science Information behavior Philosophy Wisdom Libraries Museums “Reading seeks for the sweetness...

...Tim Gorichanaz; Jonathan Furner; Lai Ma; David Bawden; Lyn Robinson; Dominic Dixon; Ken Herold; Sille Obelitz Søe; Betsy Van der Veer Martens; Luciano Floridi The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss Luciano Floridi’s 2019 book The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy...

... addressed the aspects of this relationship since then, this is the first proposal from an LIS perspective that PI be adopted as a basis for LIS. We will, however, remind readers that PI is a genuinely radical over-turning of much of the basis of all previous philosophy, inspired by the prevalence...

...Sille Obelitz Søe Purpose With the outset of automatic detection of information, misinformation, and disinformation, the purpose of this paper is to examine and discuss various conceptions of information, misinformation, and disinformation within philosophy of information. Design/methodology...

... importantly, it has to do with the emancipatory interest of philosophy and politics. Primarily, what is constitutive has to do with the constitution of us as persons as well as with constitution of communities, societies, and even the state. As individuals too, we first at least become to be what we...

... and aesthetics. Originality/value The value of studying human experiences of information is grounded in work spanning philosophy, psychology and a number of social science methodologies, and it is contextualized within information science generally. Moreover, the dialogic format of this paper presents...

... users Value analysis Philosophy Educational institutions Epistemology Information industry Gadamer The value-in-itself approach is not without its snags and snares. Perhaps a more profound exploration of the notion of instrumentality – rather than a dismissal of it – would prove to be more...

... Gorichanaz can be contacted at: gorichanaz@drexel.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Behaviour Philosophy History Theory Cognition Documents I swear with my hand on this room’s most sacred book, the alphabetized telephone directory, to speak the honest truth (Derek...

... Publishing Limited 2015 […] he’d kick their ass (Rex Libris in Turner, 2009, p. 70). Libraries Philosophy Librarians Comic books Rex Libris Slavoj Žižek To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened...

... for advocacy. Libraries Philosophy Information society Social justice “There is a whole order of movement in ‘institutions’ that’s independent of both laws and contracts” (Deleuze, 1995, p. 169). There is a model for institutions, with origins in social contract theory, that see...

... Libraries Social responsibility Philosophy Participatory culture Advances in information and communication technologies have been said to have had a democratizing effect on culture insofar as they have allowed greater numbers of people to create and share their own intellectual and creative...

.... Paul Ojennus can be contacted at: pojennus@uw.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Evaluation Analysis Bibliographic systems Indexes Retrieval languages Philosophy In part 1, sections 1-2 (appearing earlier in this journal) we reviewed the background of IOFs, identified...

... the contradictory and problematic aspects of the change process are seen to arise and make some initial connections with related contradictions in IR. Whilst clearly more recent work on these questions has been covered in philosophy I maintain that the contribution of the ancient tradition is enormously influential...

...Clare Thornley; Forbes Gibb Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of whether the differences between meaning in philosophy and meaning in information retrieval (IR) have implications for the use of philosophy in supporting research in IR. Design/methodology/approach...

...Bonna Jones Purpose The purpose of this article is to consider the meaning of “reductionism” within the context of renewed efforts to make library and information science philosophy. Design/methodology/approach This article argues that the question of reductionism, as discussed in other...