... of information science, consumerism, postmodernism, and the vast information technology changes of the past decades that converge to create an environment in which the veracity and general quality of information is challenged. The purpose of this paper is to examine information consumption in this context...

...Constantin Virgil Negoita Purpose The purpose of this paper is to stimulate thought and discourse toward postmodernism and its less known roots. Design/methodology/approach The paper addresses the relationship between postmodernism and the development of the fuzzy sets theory, in the 1970s...

...Tiziana Ligorio Affinities and shared ideas may be found at the foundations of both fuzzy set theory and the western philosophical movement commonly referred to as Postmodernism. The interest in highlighting these affinities is driven by the fact that the ideas and beliefs that are questioned...

... Postmodernism The so‐called pansystems cybernetics is a combinative investigation, extension, a complement of cybernetics within the framework of pansystems theory. Certain pansystems regeneralization or generalized optimization of the categories, principles and theorems of cybernetics and generalized...

...Adam Arvidsson While sociology has usually aimed at producing general accounts of the postmodern social condition, it has not been influenced by the postmodern epistemological challenge but kept its accounts within the modern episteme. Suggests that autopoietic systems theory (AST) can supply...