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Genre/Form: | Kongress |
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Additional Physical Format: | Druckausg. |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
ISBN: | 9789400769731 9400769733 9400769725 9789400769724 |
OCLC Number: | 874377339 |
Notes: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Description: | Online-Ressource |
Contents: | Introduction; Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Thomas Dousa.- Chapter 1: Cybersemiotics: A new foundation for transdisciplinary theory of information, cognition, meaning, communication and consciousness; Soren Brier.- Chapter 2: Epistemology and the Study of Social Information within the Perspective of a Unified Theory of Information;Wolfgang Hofkirchner.- Chapter 3: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers; Luciano Floridi.- Chapter 4: Human communication from the semiotic perspective; Winfried Noeth.- Chapter 5: Mind the gap: transitions between concepts of information in varied domains; Lyn Robinson and David Bawden.- Chapter 6: Information and the disciplines: A conceptual meta-analysis; Jonathan Furner.- Chapter 7: Epistemological Challenges for Information Science; Ian Cornelius.- Chapter 8: The nature of information science and its core concepts; Birger Hjorland.- Chapter 9: Sylvie Leleu-Merviel. Coalescence in the informational process. Application to visual sense-making. Chapter 10: Understanding users' informational constructs through the affordances of cinematographic images; Michel Labour.- Chapter 11: Documentary Languages and the Demarcation of Information Units in Textual Information: A Case Study; Thomas Dousa.- Index. |
Series Title: | Studies in history and philosophy of science, 34. |
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From the book reviews:"The standard of writing is generally very good and there is evidence that the editors have done a good job in ensuring a high quality of intellectual argument. ... this is an excellent introduction to the rich and varied debates around the nature of information, revealing that the field is actually far from agreement. ... There is also sufficient depth and breadth to make it a valuable resource for the more knowledgeable as well." (John Mingers, Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol. 21 (3), 2014) Read more...

